Helping leaders turn AI into business value.
Norwest's Product, AI & Technology team partners with founders, CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, and engineering leaders to navigate critical product, technology, and AI decisions. From product strategy and AI enablement to engineering leadership, organizational design, and technology transformation, we help companies build and scale with confidence.
Build products, teams, and technology for the AI era.
Today's technology leaders must balance product innovation, AI adoption, engineering execution, talent development, security, and organizational scale, all while moving faster than ever before. We help leadership teams make informed decisions about product strategy, AI roadmaps, technical talent, organizational design, architecture, cloud strategy, and platform investments so they can scale effectively and create lasting value.
Ken Yagen
Principal, Operating Executive, Product, AI, & Technology
Create scalable product and technology foundations.
Acting as trusted advisors and sounding boards, we help leadership teams evaluate tradeoffs, navigate organizational change, and turn technology investments into measurable business outcomes.
Create scalable product and technology foundations.
Acting as trusted advisors and sounding boards, we help leadership teams evaluate tradeoffs, navigate organizational change, and turn technology investments into measurable business outcomes.
Product &
AI Strategy
Product Vision and Roadmap Development
Agentic Product Strategy and Design
AI-Native Positioning and Competitive Strategy
Customer Discovery and Product-Market Fit
Pricing and Monetization
AI Implementation and Adoption
Technology &
Engineering
Technology Modernization & SDLC Transformation
Agentic Systems and AI Architecture Design
AI-Native Engineering Best Practices
AI Infrastructure and Cost Management
Cloud, Security, and Infrastructure Guidance
Talent Assessment, Hiring and Org Design
AI Ecosystem & Community
By connecting founders and teams with our Product, AI & Technology leaders, AI-focused Senior Advisors, Norwest Operator Collective (NOC), Data & Engineering team, and portfolio events, we provide practical support across AI strategy, product development, engineering scale, and technology transformation.
Our Norwest Operator Collective (NOC) is dynamic community of AI, Data, CISO, CIO and CXO leaders focused on thought leadership and strategic partnership.
A network of operators who have scaled what you're building.
Our Product, AI & Technology team is supported by a growing network of experienced operators and technical leaders from some of the world's most influential technology companies. Together, they provide practical expertise across AI, product management, engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, and data.
