Varun is currently a Senior Product Manager at Cisco Systems Inc. (Seattle, WA). He leads their Information Technology B2B and B2C Webex products of AI/ML Reports &amp; Analytics and Cloud Modernization. He also manages executive engagements and customer interactions for these products. Previously, Varun worked as a Senior Product Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP. At Deloitte, he supervised six direct reports to lead Product Management and Strategic Consulting efforts across the Technology and Healthcare sectors for Fortune 500 and public-sector clients. To date, he has successfully launched eight 0-1 products, generating $80Mn+ revenue and improving the customer experience of 11Mn end-users. Varun also has an MBA from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and an MS from Northwestern University. He is a Product Leader with ~seven years of experience across cutting-edge AI/ML, Cloud, Digital Transformation technologies and B2B, and B2C Business Products and Services. He has keen business and strategic acumen and is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the lives of end users.

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Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

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Rachel Hamlin is an executive and career coach (https://rachel-hamlin.com) who helps high performers to regulate stress and build success that feels good. She is a trained yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator and tapping practitioner, and she also dabbles as a product manager in the web3 space.

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Beks has over 2 decades experience working in Product Management, the last 14 years spent leading global product and design teams. Working at a wide variety of industries, product types; B2C, B2B, and B2B2C. Various domains;  financial services, payments, retail banking, SaaS, personal media and TV and most recently in Climate Tech. Beks is the founder of the Female Product Lead a community focused on empowering the female product leaders of today and tomorrow and is also a community leader at Product Mind community - the worlds only community supporting the mental health and wellbeing of product professionals globally.

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Poornima Mohandas is a business-journalist-turned-product-marketer with over 14 years of professional experience. She runs productmarketingfortech.com, a product marketing consultancy based out of Bangalore. She has handled incredibly successful, multi-million dollar enterprise SaaS products in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as emerging products in the more nascent Indian startup ecosystem.

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Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

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Introducing the Product Analytics Certification Course by Pendo and Mind the Product

Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

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Marta Rolak is VP of Product, leading teams through digital transformation and organisational change. She’s passionate about shaping product cultures where curiosity, clarity, and collaboration help teams build products that genuinely make a difference. Marta writes about the realities of modern product leadership — from working through uncertainty to empowering people to thrive in evolving environments. She is based in London.

Marta Rolak

3 tips for product managers at companies learning how to do product

Christine has been in product management for 12+ years, and has held roles from Product Manager to Director leading teams to Head of Product Operations. She’s done so across finance, fintech, and SaaS and has focused on not only delivering product and outcomes to customers, but strengthening product teams while doing so.  

Christine believes great experiences for customers start with a frictionless product experience that helps them build trust with the company, ultimately creating a partnership vs a transactional relationship. Her passion for connecting product people to their partners and customers helped guide her throughout her career in product and has been foundational to her role as a pioneer in Product Operations, and thought leader in the product space.

She’s led and coached teams through product-led transformation and continues to mentor product leaders on setting up foundations for strong teams, creating and delivering best practices, and creating a system for product managers to do their best in. Christine enjoys giving back to the product community and looks at product management as a discipline rather than a role in technology.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Building a product without any full-time product managers

Ian Haynes is a digital marketing specialist and has successfully deployed over 500 pages of content as a ghostwriter for businesses of all sizes. He believes that for people to truly value your business and perceive it as a brand, your content needs to do much more than just inform, it needs to talk, engage, and convert. Outside of his work, Ian likes exploring Brooklyn with his Labrador.

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