Rayyan Islam

Experience

Self Employed

Founder, Early-Stage Tech Investor | Consultant | Advisor 2016 - Present (over 10 years)

Advisor to international family offices and conglomerates to engage with and lead investments into tech companies.

Startups involved with:
Astranis, EquipmentShare,... more

Beacon

VP of Product 2015 - 2016 (9 months)

Built a venture-backed subscription airline in the East Coast flying between New York, Boston, DC, Nantucket, and the Hamptons

Owned and led everything technology,... more

Product School

Lead Instructor (NYC)

Was the first instructor to teach the art and practice of product management to a select group of high caliber engineers, MBAs, designers, and marketers for Product School... more

Romulus Capital

Associate

Led sourcing efforts for the firm.

Sourced, analyzed, and conducted diligence to drive the firm's investments Seed and Series A investments for Equipmentshare from... more

Spotify

Product Marketing Manager

Helped lead a team to build the Spotify open playlist and discover weekly features by conducting UX research, designing wireframes and high fidelity mockups, writing out user... more

Deloitte Consulting

Strategy and Operations Consultant, Emerging Markets

• Drafted pitchbooks, both sell-side and buy-side M&A, predominantly in the real estate, mining, and mobile banking sectors focused in the East African region; Conducted... more

Founder

Self Employed

Employee

.406 Ventures, Wasabi Ventures, Deloitte Consulting, Spotify, Romulus Capital, Beacon, Deloitte, Product School, Luxury Lites, Green D Ventures

Advisor

Whale Path, Founder House

Projects

Hadley Knox

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With Stefan de Rougemont, Ammar Shallal

Education

About

Achievements

Was a founding employee at Beacon and built a venture-backed subscription airline in the East Coast flying between New York, Boston, DC, Nantucket, and the Hamptons.

1st and lead instructor at Product School in NYC, to train the next generation of PMs. Have built a network of over 500 PMs across leading companies around the world

Helped lead a team to build the open playlist and discover weekly features at Spotify.

Designed the end-to-end UX and visual design of Pose.

Became a venture capitalist at the age of 21 with Wasabi Ventures, did growth investing at .406 Ventures before leading sourcing efforts at Romulus Capital based in NYC

Designed and built Luxury Lites while in college from the ground up, the largest manufacturer and seller of electronic hookahs while I was in college growing it to $12M in annual revenue in 2 years.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Financial Analysis and Modeling Business Development Sales Strategy and Management Public Speaking Social Media Marketing Copywriting Finance Sales and Marketing Product Management Product Marketing SQL HTML5 & CSS3 Venture Capital UI/UX Design UX Research Visual Design Product Design User Experience Design Angel Investing Family Office Innovation & Growth

Locations

Silicon Valley Dallas Boston Austin New York City Los Angeles Baltimore Washington DC Denver San Francisco Houston Palo Alto Mountain View

Rayyan Islam

Impact-Driven investor. Product. Investor in @equipmentshare @astranis. Former @romulus-capital @beacon @spotify @406-ventures @deloitte-consulting