Ferris Akkad
Founder · Builder · Advisor
Ferris is the co-founder of Strixo, an AI transformation consultancy. He helps companies move from AI ambition to production AI with measurable business impact.
Career
Strixo
Co-founded Strixo, an AI transformation consultancy, with Matt Collins. Engagements span advisory for senior leadership, hands-on product strategy for AI deployments, and full delivery on flagship initiatives.
AWS, Senior Product Manager, Global Services Products and Solutions
Owned the product strategy for AWS's GenAI solution packages, the primary sales motion AWS Professional Services uses to land enterprise AI deployments, adopted by 7,000+ field sellers. Built a GenAI-driven RFP response engine that cut proposal turnaround from over a month to under a week and unlocked $11M in new pipeline.
Amazon, Senior Product Manager, Operations Risk and Compliance
Led the technology strategy for the global compliance platform governing over 1 billion annual shipments across 13 countries. Coordinated more than a dozen engineering teams to deliver modular rule engines, automated image-recognition auditing, and packaging logic redesigns that drove over $146M in annual savings, cut compliance defect rates 52% year over year, and eliminated 2,200 monthly hours of manual review.
Freddie Mac, Senior Product Owner
Led a 10-person cross-functional team to build an automated income verification system that drove $20M in lender savings and accelerated loan processing by 65%.
Core Competencies
- ▸Product strategy for enterprise AI deployments
- ▸RAG architectures, agentic systems, and model fine-tuning productization
- ▸Compliance and regulatory technology at planet scale
- ▸Logistics and supply chain platforms
- ▸Cross-functional engineering team leadership
- ▸AI advisory for senior leadership
Education
- ▸MS, Management of Information Technology, University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce
- ▸BS, Health Science (minor in Economics), James Madison University