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Jan Puzicha

Jan Puzicha

Jan Puzicha is Sinpex’s Chief Product Officer, a Recommind founder and a former LeanIX product and technology leader.

Mentee Testimony

"Jan helped us think very differently about our product and was critical in guiding us to the right architecture."

Tobias Brühne

About

Jan Puzicha is Sinpex’s Chief Product Officer, a Recommind founder and a former LeanIX product and technology leader.

Current Work

Chief Product Officer, Sinpex

Jan Puzicha is Chief Product Officer at Sinpex, where his product work concerns business verification and regulated KYC and KYB workflows. He founded Recommind and served as its CTO, building machine-learning and information-analytics software. In 2016, OpenText agreed to acquire Recommind.

Puzicha later held technology and product leadership roles at LeanIX, including CTO and Senior Vice President of Product. There, he worked on product direction and the development organization as it expanded. His experience spans enterprise software architecture, engineering governance and the relationship between product decisions and team structure.

Experience Jan brings to founders

  1. Product strategy
  2. Software architecture
  3. Engineering organizations
  4. Business verification
  5. Enterprise software

Operating and investing experience

A selection of companies and roles connected to Jan Puzicha.

Ventures

Sinpex

Chief Product Officer

Recommind

Founder and former CTO

LeanIX

Former CTO and Senior Vice President of Product

Highlights

  1. Founded Recommind and served as CTO.
  2. Led product and technology at LeanIX.
  3. Works on business-verification products at Sinpex.

Questionsfounders ask aboutJan Puzicha

Who is Jan Puzicha?

Jan Puzicha is Sinpex’s Chief Product Officer, a Recommind founder and a former LeanIX product and technology leader.

What experience does Jan Puzicha bring to mentoring?

Their experience spans product strategy, software architecture, engineering organizations, business verification and enterprise software.

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