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The Product Experience

Podcast

How to validate the impact of product features - Jason Sparks (Principal Product Manager, ReUp Education)

Prateek Khamesra is a Senior Product Leader at Mastercard, where he drives innovation in digital payments and leads high-impact strategic initiatives like Buy Now Pay Later and Digital Wallets across global markets. With over 13 years of experience across fintech, consulting, and technology, he has held leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey & Company, and Infosys - specializing in product development, go-to-market execution, and business strategy. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Johns Hopkins University, where he also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Leadership Education. 

Prateek Khamesra

Leadership

Community Post

Leadership lessons from sunsetting a product   

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.

Eira Hayward

Product Management Conference

A better approach to the product management process - John Cutler at INDUSTRY 2025

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 

Louron Pratt

Five product lessons from the Inspire Africa Conference 2025

Product management news

Product management news: Amazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs, OpenAI set for an IPO

Natalia is a product and commercial innovation leader with a proven track record in building and scaling digital technologies from idea to revenue to exit. Her experience spans product, marketing, sales, and ecosystem strategy across early-stage startups, scaleups, and corporate innovation environments.

Natalia is also the founder of Connected.Ventures, a curated network of over 300 technology innovation leaders in the UK. The events she hosts regularly bring together more than 70 directors from organizations such as HSBC, NatWest, Barclays, London & Partners and many others.

In addition to her commercial ventures, Natalia serves as a mentor and speaker on product, marketing, and sales at innovation organizations.

Natalia also advises global networks on technology strategy and, as a UK Tech Innovation Delegate, represents the sector at international events including global entrepreneurship conferences in the USA and Italy.

Natalia Loza

Product Development Process

How to conduct effective user interviews for digital products

Mike Belsito is Head of Product Evangelism for Pendo and Mind the Product and is seen as one of product management’s most notable connectors. 

Mike spent over a decade leading two of the most recognized communities in product management – first as co-founder of Product Collective, home to INDUSTRY: The Product Conference – and then at Mind the Product, after Pendo brought the two together in September 2024. Through both, he's built spaces where product people connect, grow, and take their craft seriously.

Before his community-building chapter, Mike was a startup founder and operator, serving as a co-founder, executive, and early employee in several technology startup companies. He is currently under contract with Wiley to write The Future-Proof Product Manager – a book that explores the timeless characteristics helping product people stay valuable through any period of massive change. It is due out in February 2027. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR, and PBS.


Mike Belsito

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Get future-ready with your product practice and deliver results

How to connect product features to company goals - Elena Luneva (Maven, Nextdoor, Braintrust)

Jenny is an entrepreneur and product operations consultant who helps product teams trying to make dramatic changes and make them stick. She helps them through fractional VP of Product services, coaching, and her course, Product Operations and Infrastructure. Learn more about her at www.jennywanger.com.

She brings over a decade of product management experience. She co-founded the pandemic-tech focused TCN Coalition and merged it with LF Public Health and previously led the consumer product team at SpotHero.

When offline, Jenny is usually up in the mountains outside of her home in Colorado hiking and skiing with her family. 

Jenny Wanger

Product Management Career

How to lead products through layoff fear

Product professional with 18+ years of experience driving complex, multi-product portfolios across regulated and innovation-driven sectors including GenAI, BioPharma/Healthcare, Security, TechHR, Legal Spend Management, SAP S/4 HANA and Fleet Management. Proven track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions by aligning product strategy with business goals, leading cross-functional global teams, and optimising performance through agile execution.
Skilled in product vision setting, strategic planning, prioritisation, risk management, and executive-level stakeholder communication, I excel at creating clarity from complexity and turning product opportunities into measurable business outcomes.

Kateryna Korotieieva

Collaboration

Building Product Teams

How to lead cross-functional teams and drive product success

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser, Meta cuts 600 AI jobs: this week's news roundup

A Product Marketing Manager with nearly six years of experience spanning marketing strategy, competitive analysis, and go-to-market execution. She has a proven track record of driving positioning, sales enablement, and market differentiation for B2B

technology products. Passionate about the intersection of product, marketing, and sales, Olajumoke focuses on building strategies that not only accelerate growth but also enable product marketing teams to thrive as a core function within organisations.



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