Leadership Portfolio — Behnam Jafari Balalami
Leadership Portfolio
Everything an executive-search partner or a board would want in one place: the capability map, the experience spine, the sectors, the credentials — and the numbers with their provenance attached.
01 Experience spine
Six organisations, 2007 to today
Chief Product & Business Development Officer
Tamin Tejarat Espahbod Khorshid
Sep 2024 — Jun 2026 Fractional Full detail Senior Management Consultant & Digital Product Lead
Emkan Development Experience Group
Aug 2024 — Present Project-based Full detail Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Product Officer
WritingChex
Feb 2024 — Mar 2025 Fractional Full detail Co-Founder & Board Member
Aghigh Family · House of Art & Media
Sep 2015 — Jul 2024 Full-time Full detail Co-Founder & CEO
CompanyHouse · Fekre Bartar Legal Institute
Nov 2015 — Oct 2016 Fractional Full detail Creative Direction, Design, Web & Project Leadership
Freelance
2007 — Sep 2015 Full detail
02 Capability map
Six layers of competency
Executive Leadership & Management Consulting Executive Layer Management Consulting Business Strategy Organizational Design Business Process Optimization Operating Model Design Strategic Planning & Execution Digital Transformation Change Management Economic Development & Investment Promotion
Product Leadership Build Layer Product Strategy Product Discovery Product Roadmapping Product Portfolio Management Product Lifecycle Management Platform Design Product-Led Growth AI Product Development Marketplace & Multi-Sided Platform Design
Business Development & Growth Growth Layer Business Development Growth Strategy Go-to-Market Strategy Customer Experience Strategy Brand Strategy Content Strategy Revenue Growth Stakeholder Management
Product Operations & Delivery Execution Layer Agile Product Development Scrum & Lean Methodologies Program Management Cross-Functional Leadership Project Portfolio Management Operational Excellence Quality Assurance Risk Management
User Experience & Service Design Design Layer User Experience (UX) User Interface (UI) Customer Journey Mapping Information Architecture Service Design User Research Prototyping & Validation
Analytics & Decision Making Insight Layer Product Analytics Business Analytics Financial Modeling Forecasting & Scenario Planning Data-Driven Decision Making Market Research Customer Insights
03 Sectors
Where I have actually operated
FinTech & Alternative Assets Gold & Precious Metals AI & EdTech Digital Philanthropy & Crowdfunding Social & Content Platforms Parenting & Family Platforms Economic Development & FDI Promotion LegalTech Media & Creative Industries
04 Credentials
Education and certification
Programmes are not employers.
Founder Institute, SpartUp at San José State University, Product School and the McKinsey “Take a Step Forward” programme are courses and accelerators I took part in. They are not roles, not affiliations, and they give me no US work history.
05 The recordWhere the numbers are The figures that carry a source — with what each one counts, and where it came from — are on the Experience page, next to the role that produced them.
Next step
The dossier is complete. The conversation is not.
Executive search, board introductions and direct enquiries all reach me the same way.
I reply to every serious enquiry within 2 business days.