— About the founder
Bridging business strategy, technology, product and execution.
Omar Bermudez
Founder, ZettaGo Consulting Group | Former McKinsey Digital Product Lead
From software engineering to digital product leadership and business transformation, I've spent more than 20 years connecting business challenges with technology, people and execution.
— Biography
From engineering to business leadership.
I started my career as a software engineer, long before moving into product management, business strategy and consulting. That technical foundation has been an important part of how I work ever since. I understand what happens behind the technology, how systems are built, why complexity matters, and what it takes to turn an ambitious idea into a working product.
Over more than 20 years, my career has taken me from writing software and leading engineering teams to building digital products, developing business strategies and leading large-scale transformation initiatives across multiple industries and international markets.
At McKinsey & Company, I worked in digital product leadership, bringing together business priorities, customer needs, technology and multidisciplinary teams to develop and deliver complex digital initiatives. It reinforced something I had already learned from being on the implementation side: a good strategy only creates value when an organization can execute it.
I've also held senior leadership roles in consulting, product development and enterprise digital transformation, working with startups, growing companies and multinational organizations. My experience spans banking, insurance, fintech, retail, digital commerce, industrial technology, enterprise platforms and software-as-a-service businesses.
What connects these experiences is product leadership, but not in the narrow sense of managing features or roadmaps. For me, product sits at the intersection of the business and the organization. It connects strategy with customer problems, technology with business models, go-to-market with product development, and engineering with operations.
Product sits at the intersection of the business and the organization.
A product can have excellent technology and still fail because its positioning is wrong, its commercial model doesn't work, or the organization isn't prepared to support it.
That's why my work goes beyond product development. I help organizations connect the decisions and teams that determine whether a strategy becomes a successful product or remains a presentation.
Sometimes that means defining a new business or product strategy. Sometimes it means working alongside developers and architects, shaping a go-to-market approach, aligning leadership teams, improving an operating model or helping an organization adopt AI and emerging technologies in a practical way.
I founded ZettaGo to bring those experiences together in a more direct, flexible consulting model. I believe organizations benefit from experienced people who can move comfortably between a boardroom discussion, a product workshop and a technical conversation, while keeping everyone focused on the same business objectives.
That's the kind of work I enjoy, and the kind of consulting ZettaGo was created to provide.
— Professional capabilities
01
Business & Digital Strategy
02
Digital Product Leadership
03
Technology & Engineering
04
AI & Digital Transformation
05
Growth & Go-to-Market
06
Leadership & Capability Building
07
Enterprise Platforms
08
International Collaboration
— Consulting philosophy
Good consulting makes the client stronger.
We believe the value of consulting should go beyond recommendations.
Our approach combines honest conversations, clear priorities, direct collaboration and knowledge sharing.
We work with your people, not around them.
Our aim is to leave organizations better equipped to make decisions, deliver products and continue improving after an engagement ends.
— International perspective
Many countries. Many cultures. One way of working.
My career has involved work across many countries and with culturally diverse teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. ZettaGo is based in Montréal and works with clients in Canada, the United States and international markets.
Languages
- English
- French
- Spanish
