Paul is the Director of Business Development at Mind the Product. Before he joined the team, he was the co-founder of Product Collective, an initiative to bring together the global product community online and at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference. In recent years he led business development at DXY, a leading product design firm in the Midwest, and product innovation at MedCity Media, a publishing startup acquired by Breaking Media in 2015.

Paul McAvinchey

Product Management

Product Management Conference

Don’t miss February's Mind the Product conference promotion

Jim Vincent is a Product Manager at Epicor focused on Grow, a no-code full-stack BI solution. With over a decade of experience in product development and strategy, Jim specializes in building scalable solutions that empower businesses to harness the power of their data. He is passionate about aligning customer insights with long-term product vision and has a track record of driving growth through customer-focused innovation.

Jim Vincent

Customers

Community Post

Why you should ignore your loudest customers

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

Simonetta Batteiger

Product Management Skills

Finance skills for product people

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

Sunday Rewind: Minimise the gap between maker and user by Henrik Kniberg

What product professionals are focusing on in 2025: Survey results

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

DeepSeek AI launch: The view from product leaders

Curtis is the founder of his own bespoke consulting agency Minds Alert. He also is a coordinator for MindTheProduct in North America where he supports the growth of ProductTank groups across US and Canada.
As a strategic consultant, Curtis is a growth catalyst for leaders and teams driving meaningful innovation.

For over a decade he has been working with organizations like Campbells Soup, NASA, Siemens Energy, and Walmart to build better products and transform internal processes and culture.
His approach blends foresight, future-casting, with design sprints and leadership coaching.

Curtis Michelson

Product Launch

When PLG is smooth as butter: A conversation with Jakob Knutzen (Co-Founder and CEO, Butter) 

Prerna Kaul is a Lead Principal PM and full-stack product builder at Microsoft. She has an undergrad in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Toronto. She has spent 15+ years in AI/ML products across Amazon, Moderna, and Panasonic, with three pending patents in agentic AI architecture.

Prerna Kaul

Abhai Pratap Singh is an expert in artificial intelligence and platform product development with 9+ years of experience building AI/ML products used by millions worldwide. He has a proven track record of building multi-million dollar AI products across Amazon Alexa, PointClickCare, Tata-1mg and S&P Global. In his current role, he is driving cutting-edge innovations in Alexa’s Audio experiences to enhance how millions of customers interact with Amazon's AI products.

Abhai Pratap Singh 

Platform thinking in the age of Generative AI: A practical guide for Product Managers

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

How Superhuman built its AI-powered email search: Lorilyn McCue (AI Product Manager) – Product Unplugged

Frameworks

Jobs to be done for Product Managers

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