Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta is finishing his full-time MBA at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in the technology industry, including at thredUP and Google.
Aaron Glazer
Aaron is the CEO and Co-Founder of Taplytics, a Y-Combinator backed platform that helps brands build delightful, engaging experiences that span seamlessly across web, TV and mobile apps. Before Taplytics, he was a strategy consultant at ZS Associates and a management consultant at Accenture. He holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Adam Bullied
Adam Bullied is a product manager that has worked in eight startups in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, managing 15 different products. Now a part of RBC Ventures, he’s helping create next-generation products for Canadians, his passion is for the production process and creating value.
Adrienne Gajownik
Adrienne is a Product Design Manager at Pendo. She has 12+ years of design experience and fell in love with creating delightful experiences that solve customer pain points and meet business needs. Adrienne has worked at Red Hat and Citrix. She has a passion for traveling with her young daughter and husband and drinking too much cold brew.
Agnes Sokol
Agnes is a Product Marketing Manager at Pendo. She is a technology marketer with 10 years of experience working with software companies, venture capital firms, and innovation agencies. Agnes has worked at MOO, Vantiv (now Worldpay), Savannah Fund and World Wide Creative. She has a passion for compelling storytelling, international travel, skiing (poorly) and the Rocky Mountains.
Alan Nowogrodski
Alan Nowogrodski is a Lead Product Manager at FreshBooks and has spent the last 12 years building products. He is also the Founder of the MUX Awards, a program that celebrates incredible mobile apps and the teams behind them.
Allan Neil
Allan is a Product Manager by day and a Podcaster by night. His passions include podcasting, mentoring and cycling. You can find his podcast "Product-Centric" on Apple Podcasts and on the web at www.productcentric.network. Allan lives in the Toronto area with his wife Jeanne, pug Gloria, and cat Billy.
Annie Dunham
Annie Dunham is the Director of Product Management at ProductPlan. She has worked with product and engineering teams for the last 15 years to bring technology products to market. Prior to ProductPlan, she worked with teams at Elite Meetings, LogicMonitor, BlueCasa Communications and Microsoft. When she’s not pursuing customer insights or researching the latest on PM methodologies she can be found enjoying herself on a kite or snowboard.
Ashley Wali
Ashley is a product leader dedicated to building usable, useful, beautiful products. She is a startup veteran with experience growing teams and companies from 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. Ashley currently leads product at Discuss.io, a B2B video conferencing and insights platform for online market research interviews. Ashley is passionate about her two feisty boys, the Pacific Northwest, female empowerment, and almond milk lattes.
Avinoam Zelenko
Avinoam Zelenko is the proud father of 2 children: a 5-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. He’s been a PM for over 10 years now, having worked in the B2B SaaS sector focused on user engagement, data, and analytics. He’s built intelligent enterprise chat products at LivePerson, enterprise in-page analytics products at ClickTale, algorithmic repricing products at Feedvisor, and now works on team collaboration products at Atlassian on the Confluence team.
Brian Crofts
Brian Crofts is the Chief Product Officer of Pendo. Before Pendo, Brian spent 12 years as a product leader at Intuit, where he managed several successful products in both QuickBooks and Tax and contributed to the company's global expansion efforts worldwide.
Christine Itwaru
Christine Itwaru is the director of product management at Pendo. She regularly speaks at industry events on topics such as PM hiring, leadership, women in product, and empathy in product management.
Cliff Gilley
For over 15 years, Cliff Gilley has been a product manager and Agile coach at a wide variety of companies across many different industries and is currently working as a Technical Product Manager for the K2 corporation in Bellevue, Washington. He also blogs regularly as the Clever PM and is an active board member with the Pacific Northwest Product Management Community.
Dan Larsen
Dan is a senior product manager at Henry Schein and is also the creator and host of the Founder Story podcast. He makes SaaS your dentist uses. A Weekend warrior and Coldplay fanatic.
Derek Jamieson
Derek Jamieson is the Director of Product at Naranga, where he’s responsible for innovating and expanding a suite of solutions for the franchising space. Before joining Naranga, Derek held various positions at a number of consumer-facing companies. He loves music, running, and crushing his colleagues in ping pong.
Eric Boduch
Eric Boduch is the Chief Evangelist for Pendo. Previously, he served as the CEO of Brainstorm SMS Technologies LLC (dba SMaSh, Inc.) and was the co-founder and CEO of several other companies. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science from The School of Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a graduate of its Executive Management Program.
Grace Sheppard
Grace is a marketing coordinator at Pendo, where she helps manage events and social media. She recently moved from one highly-populated tree town, Ann Arbor, to another, Raleigh, after completing her B.A. in Communications from the University of Michigan. She enjoys writing, hiking, and snuggling with her blind mutt, Pip.
Hillá Meller
Hillá Meller is the editor-in-chief of ProductCraft. Previously, she was a content specialist at Insert, a mobile engagement platform, and a digital insights analyst at SimilarWeb. A graduate of Yale and Georgetown, Hillá is a life-long nerd.
Holly Kennedy
Holly Kennedy heads up product at 15Five and brings more than a decade of design experience to the team. She was formerly a design consultant working remotely with early-stage startups to validate and launch their MVP products. When not buried deep in 15Five’s roadmap, Holly is busy renovating her home just outside Amsterdam, raising her 4-month-old daughter and feeding her travel bug.
Hubert Palan
Hubert is the founder and CEO of productboard, the leading product excellence system, helping product teams get the right products to market faster. Prior to productboard, Hubert was the Vice President of Product Management at GoodData. He lives with his wife Jenna and their baby boy Hubert V. in Oakland, CA.
Ivo Minjauw
Ivo is the head of product at OTA Insight, which empowers the largest hotel chains in the world to optimize their pricing strategies. Ivo launched his career by founding SocialExpress, a social media analytics startup, in his dorm room. Three years later, the company was acquired by Bynder, one of the hottest software companies in Amsterdam. In 2013, Ivo was named in the "5 Best Entrepreneurs Under 25" in The Netherlands by Sprout Magazine.
Jaclyn Spangler
Jaclyn is the Head of Hugging at FullStory, where she has worked to build a cross-functional team committed to enhancing customer experience. With a history in both Customer Success and Product Management, her passion is building systems that blend these customer-facing disciplines so that the resulting product has no choice but to be excellent and delightful. A nomad from early days, she now happily calls Atlanta home and enjoys exploring the many delicious brews and eats the city has to offer.
Jake Sorofman
Jake Sorofman is CMO of Pendo. Most recently, he spent five years as a VP and Chief of Research at Gartner, Inc., before returning to his startup roots. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CMO.com and other business and industry publications.
Jason Westigard
Jason Westigard is based in Austin, Texas and has worked in the product management field for last 15 years. He is a graduate of Stanford's Education and Engineering departments and works as the Sr. Director of Product Management for Spredfast, a company that provides social media management software and services.
Joe Chernov
Joe Chernov is VP of Marketing at Pendo. AdWeek named him one of the 100 Most Creative marketers. He has been a VP of marketing for two successful IPOs.
Julie Caprio
Julie has been a Product Manager at Pendo since 2016. Formerly a data analyst and management consultant, she has found her passion in crafting products which enable others do their jobs better. A New Yorker at heart, she now lives with her husband in Seattle where she can pursue her favorite hobbies of cooking, hiking, and skiing, among others.
Kirsten Butzow
Kirsten Butzow is a Pragmatic Marketing instructor with more than 20 years of product management and marketing experience in the education technology and telecommunications industries. Kirsten is a highly sought-after speaker for industry events and has presented several keynote addresses, including at the INDUSTRY and Business of Software conferences. She has held positions as vice president of product management and marketing with Global 500 companies, including Fujitsu, Pearson, and Blackboard.
Laura Baverman
Laura Baverman is the director of communications at Pendo. She spent a decade in business journalism, writing for publications like USA Today, the Cincinnati Enquirer, News & Observer and American City Business Journals. Prior to Pendo, she served as editor of ExitEvent, an online publication covering startups across North Carolina. A Cincinnati native and Raleigh resident, Laura is learning to love the South.
Maria Thomas
Maria is responsible for Insightly’s product management, design, and UX functions leading product from strategy to execution. Before Insightly, she built and shipped products and services to millions of users at Intuit and Microsoft. Maria holds a Masters degree from the State University of Saint Petersburg, an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business and a Product Management Executive certification from Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Matt Thackston
Matt is a Senior Product Manager at Emma, where he has worked for the past 11 years. In that time, he's helped Emma grow from a 20-person startup to a major player in the email service provider market. He believes product management is at its best when it is focused on customer problems rather than solutions. Matt lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and daughter. He loves craft beer, UNC basketball and the Coen Brothers.
Michael Peach
Michael Peach is the Head of Product Marketing for Pendo where he leads messaging, positioning, and launch activities for Pendo’s product experience platform. Prior to joining Pendo, Mike was a program director at IBM and has also held product management and business development roles in several small and early-stage technology companies.
Mike Storrs
Mike has led product at Weave for the past four years. Most recently he headed up engineering and product for Vivint's wireless internet offering. He is a father of four, avid cyclist, engineer, author and problem solver. He is passionate about creating products customers love. Mike has a BS in mechanical engineering from BYU and an MBA from the University of Utah.
Niamh Jones
Niamh is a product manager at Voxpopme, a video insight platform and one of the UK's most successful startups. In the last five years, Niamh has worked internationally at Voxpopme to grow the company, processes, and platform. Most recently, she's worked to leverage IBM Watson to bring automated sentiment analysis to video data, facilitating instantaneously available and scalable understanding of qualitative research.
Ohad Frankfurt
Ohad is a product management and growth enthusiastic, who currently serves as a Director of Product at SimilarWeb. Ohad is also a Product Management course leader at Elevation Academy and an early-stage startup advisor. He lives in Tel-Aviv and is raising four dogs.
Patrick Tickle
Patrick Tickle is the CPO at Planview, where he leads the products team, encompassing strategy, product management, product development, and cloud operations. Prior to Planview, Patrick spent 15 years in Silicon Valley at MIPS Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics, and early-stage start-ups ITM Software and Terraspring. He has a BSEE from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
Raman Gulati
Raman is the VP of Product at CareerArc, an employer branding company specializing in social recruiting and virtual outplacement. He is also a photographer, gamer, Lakers fan, and proponent of spirited driving.
Remko Vermeulen
Remko Vermeulen is VP of Product at Telefónica Alpha, Telefónica's disruptive innovation/moonshot factory, where he focuses on improving health. He is passionate about creating new companies, products and services integrating the best of scientific research, user insights, design and development to get the best products and services with cross-disciplinary teams using lean startup, service design, and design thinking. Remko is the local founder of IxDA (Interaction design association), mentor at Elisava design school and (former) Healthbox London, Wayra, Startup Bootcamp and Fintech startup accelerators. Besides work, Remko is passionate about sailing, kitesurfing and golden dwarfs.
Rene Kolga
Rene Kolga is a senior director of product at Nyotron. He has more than 20 years of industry experience, with expertise in endpoint protection, backup, insider threat, encryption and systems management. Rene has run product teams Silicon Valley startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Symantec, Citrix, Altiris, and ThinAir. Rene earned his Computer Science degree from Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and an MBA from the University of Utah.
René Rosendahl
René is a Product Strategist for Agile Transformation, a growing SaaS start-up. He is a is self-professed product geek, Agilist, developer, blogger, and thinker. He is passionate about creating high-quality products users love. His background includes roles in development, consulting, project management and enterprise agility, most recently at Cox Automotive.
Richard Ian Porter
Richard is an Offering (Product) Manager at IBM based in Raleigh, NC, and veteran Marine. The above article represents his personal thoughts (with generous feedback from many friends) and does not necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions, nor those of the US Marine Corps or government of the United States. He also writes about Product Management and the Art of War at https://www.theartofproductwar.com/
Rob Barkman
Rob Barkman is the co-founder of ProductHQ, a product management platform. His career has spanned multiple roles within the consulting industry, supporting clients from financial services to government. Rob has advised clients in product development, project management, and process engineering. He holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the Mason School of Business at William & Mary.
Ryan Goldman
Ryan Goldman is VP of product marketing at Pendo. He previously led teams at Cloudera, SignalFx, and Sentry, and was named a top 50 product marketer by Kapost. A lifelong music obsessive, Ryan was a staff writer at Pitchfork and the founder of the International Mixtape Project.
Sam Boonin
Sam is the VP of product strategy at Zendesk, where he helps to craft the company’s long-term product and platform strategy, and oversees cross-product portfolio including developer platform, shared services, and pricing & packaging. Sam has been at Zendesk for 6 years in a variety of leadership roles across product and go-to-market. Sam has spent the last 15 years guiding innovative technologies to market in startups and big companies alike, through product leadership positions at GoodData, Cisco, AT&T, and Microsoft.
Shannon Bauman
Shannon Bauman is VP of Products of Pendo. Before Pendo, Shannon was a co-founder of Spring Metrics, an e-commerce analytics company. Prior to that, he was a Product Manager at Google, working on Google Groups and AdSense.
Shaun Juncal
Shaun is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at ProductPlan, where he helps product teams around the world build better roadmaps. Before ProductPlan, he spent seven years as a product marketer at tech companies in Santa Barbara and Vancouver. A book nerd at heart, Shaun earned his BA in English Literature from the University of London.
Sriram Parthasarathy
Sriram Parthasarathy is the chief product owner of the predictive analytics platform at Logi Analytics. He works with customers to embed predictive insights directly into the applications business users utilize on a daily basis. Sriram has over 20 years of experience in designing enterprise and OEM analytical products. Prior to Logi Analytics, Sriram was with MicroStrategy for 15 years, where, as an early employee, he was integral to building and launching several product/modules. As a practicing data scientist, Sriram is passionate about making it easy for business users to predict what is going to happen and take preventive actions. In his free time, Sriram coaches kids for competitive math and science competitions.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is an author, speaker, and strategist within the technology product community. At Under10 Consulting, he helps product teams implement the latest methods for today's business environments. Learn more at www.under10consulting.com
Suja Thomas
Dr. Suja Thomas is a data scientist at Pendo. She has over 7 years of experience analyzing large, complex business and customer behavior data. Suja utilizes her expertise in statistical and mathematical modeling and predictive analytics to help Pendo achieve growth goals and develop a better product.
Tanya Koshy
Tanya leads UserTesting’s product management team. Her background includes product roles at Google, Facebook, and Groupon. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, as well as a BA from Stanford University.
Todd Olson
Todd Olson is CEO and Co-Founder of Pendo. Before Pendo, Todd served as VP of Products at Rally Software Development, which he led through its public offering. Todd joined Rally via its acquisition of 6th Sense, a company he founded and served as President and CTO.
Tricia Cervenan
Tricia Cervenan is a product manager, teacher and product management coach with almost ten years of experience solving user problems with software. You can find more of her musings at triciacervenan.com and on twitter @triciacervenan.
Viraj Phanse
Viraj is an expert product manager and a thought leader in go-to-market, digital transformation, and business strategy. He has successfully launched world-class cloud/SaaS and data analytics platforms and products at leading startups and enterprises.
Wesley Bush
Wesley Bush is the founder and president of the Product-Led Institute where he spends his days teaching SaaS businesses how to flip the traditional sales playbook and ignite their growth engine with the Product-Led Growth methodology.
Winston Christie-Blick
Winston is a product manager at productboard, the product management solution that helps product teams understand what their users need, prioritize what to build next, and earn buy-in for their roadmap. His previous work spans cloud data analytics and education.
Yana Welinder
Yana Welinder is Head of Product at IFTTT, where she’s working to help everyone unlock magical experiences by connecting different products and services. She’s also a co-lead of Women in Product San Francisco. In previous roles, she worked on disrupting manufacturing with digital production at Carbon and tackled knowledge creation on Wikipedia. Yana graduated from Harvard, London School of Economics, and USC. She grew up in Sweden and has lived and worked in Dublin, London, L.A., Boston, and San Diego, before settling down in quirky San Francisco.