Adil Islam

Program Director, Product Management, watsonx.data

2025 – Present

• Focal for major client engagements ($150M+), IBM as client zero ($20M+ value), and SMB strategy
• Solution Accelerators: Building assets for rapid deploy with CI/CD of RAG and lakehouse solutions

Principal Product Manager, Data and AI Portfolio Strategy

2020 – 2021

• Led PMs / data scientists in portfolio strategy for Data and AI org (~$6B revenue) and special projects for roadmap, pricing, strategy, M&A, and GTM overhaul
• Product focus: Customer care, search, assistants, data fabric and information architecture

Applied Research and Product Lead

2024 – 2025

• B2B: Managed ops and research on finetuning, workflow dev and hosting for studio clients (<$1M ARR)
• B2C: Built SaaS app for anime creation in 3D environment; cultivated global community on X and Discord

Product Lead (previously Chief of Staff)

2022 – 2024

• Led 0-1 build of B2B API platform for Image and Video services (~$1M MRR)
• B2C apps built: Dreamstudio.ai, StableVideo.com, and Stable Artisan (Discord bot), (~$1M MRR in total)
• Project manager (GTM, release mgmt.) for foundation models: Image (SD3, SDXL), Video (SVD), 3D (TripoSR, SV3D), Audio (Stable Audio), and Language (Stable LM series)
• Migrated MLOps from Sagemaker/Coreweave to Stability cluster to increase reliability (from <80% to 99.5%)
• Partnered with sales on enterprise license deals with major clients in US, UK, and Australia ($3M+ ACV)
• Technical lead for distributor partnerships, including AWS Bedrock, Fireworks, and IBM ($21M+ ACV)
• As Chief of Staff: Executed global fundraise tour; created investor pitch decks; created and owned deal room; set OKRs for Policy, Legal, Product, MarComms, and Business Development; supported legal strategy

Head of Product, Operations, and Business Development

2021 – 2022

• Managed 0-1 product development with 4 engineering squads (GUIs, Platform, Security, AI APIs)
• Hired, tooled, and operationalized Product, Business Development, and Marketing team (9 total headcount)
• Supported spin-off of oPro.ai for energy vertical; secured lighthouse customer for new Kubernetes product
• Established 2-week deployment process for LLMs / Image models on V-100 K8s clusters with custom UIs

Management Consultant, Corporate Strategy Consulting

2018 – 2020

• Projects: Data and AI M&A, zero-based budgeting ($40M+, RSA sales), hardware strategy (VMware & Dell)

Prompt Engines — AI Consulting

2021 – Present

• Originally conceived to democratize access and use of the first GPT-3 public API, Prompt Engines is a bespoke consulting service for AI startups, strategic enterprises, and investors who want to understand and take advantage of AI
• Offering expertise and short-term projects, based on limited availability

Flow — AI for ESL Students

2022

• Incubated at Founder's University, Flow was a mobile app created for students at GGSS Gizri, a public school in Pakistan
• Leveraged GPT-3 to support students in studying English, Math, and Science, overcoming language barriers

ULI — Proptech

2015 – 2017

• Founded at Harvard Innovation Lab and incubated as VIP for the Founder's Challenge
• ULI lowered real estate developers' underwriting cost through parametric design of structures with full architectural design docs, automatically generated in Revit as 3D objects, costed out with materials in budget spreadsheets, and compiled into PDFs ready for investor pitches

Developer and Analyst, Econometric Data Science at Development Economics Prospects Group

2012 – 2015

• Developed and managed iSimulate, the World Bank's primary macroeconomic forecasting platform
• Led the Data Science and Modeling team for World Bank's flagship publication Global Economic Prospects
• Created data pipelines, developed models, and deployed a multiplayer web app for predictive models