Vince Negri is the founder of GameAhead Consulting, which offers pragmatic and tailored support to startups and small/micro-businesses, drawing upon 25+ years’ experience of building successful products with long-term customer retention. Vince has held senior leadership roles in engineering, development, management, product architecture, and interaction/UX design over a long career in professional audio and technology. Vince's expertise has been pivotal to major UK transport and infrastructure environments (including major rail station and airport deployments) and has led engineering teams in emerging tech including VR. He enjoys working with early-stage businesses and has been part of a startup journey from early growth to ~100 people and a successful sale.
Vince takes his multidisciplinary experience and places it in the service of businesses at the points of inception and inflection in their journey: identifying gaps in their product design, implementation and customer experience strategy and strengthening all points of their branding, messaging and customer-facing information. Having led developments ranging from safety-critical infrastructure through to end-user online social networking services, his speciality is helping bring out the unique value of a great business idea and working with a client to realise their vision in a way that is practical and scalable yet distinctive - whether software, hardware or a combination of the two. Beyond 1:1 sessions, Vince often supports startups as a fractional senior technical/product lead (on a retainer) or as a project-based consultant for defined pieces of work (e.g., roadmap definition, interaction design, technical evaluation).
Vince is a strong fit for solo founders and early teams (typically 2–5 people) who are building a product and want to reduce delivery risk, move faster, and make better build decisions. In a session, he will work with you to ensure your objectives are well-defined, customer-focused, achievable in the short term and crucially, maintainable in the longer term. This will include making your business robust against both unexpected challenges and unexpected success! His objective will be to leave you with a clear action plan that feels organic to your goals and values and eschews the unnecessary.
To get the most from your session, please prepare a short explanation of your business and your ideal future for it, together with your top three concerns and obstacles to execution and/or growth. If you have any existing materials you are using to pitch for funding or customers, these would also be welcome.
