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

Product Management

Product Management Conference

Product Management Skills

Why emotional connection drives successful products: Nesrine Changuel at #mtpcon London (Google, Spotify, Microsoft)

With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

Jon Horvath

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

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 Process

How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham

Building Product Teams

Enterprise Product Management

Startup Product Management

10 years Wiser: Lessons learned from scaling Wise by Nilan Peiris

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.

Ian Haynes

Product/Market Fit

Fighting product-market drift by Dave Wascha

Priyanka Malla is a project manager and strategy-focused leader working at the intersection of enterprise transformation, AI initiatives, and large-scale systems delivery. Her work spans ERP and infrastructure migrations, process automation, and cross-functional programs that help organizations scale through change. Priyanka is an IEEE Senior Member and serves on the PDMA Digital Content Committee, and she volunteers with professional and communities through roles with IEEE and technology-for-good initiatives. She also mentors students at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Priyanka writes about practical ways product thinking can improve adoption, trust, and outcomes in complex environments.

Priyanka Malla

Product Strategy

Product thinking when product is an enterprise transformation

Sriram is a Product Manager at ServiceNow, designing intuitive mobile experiences and developing agentic AI solutions for Field Service Management. His experience at Zoho and Aviso AI has given him deep expertise in CRM and revenue intelligence, which he combines with a strong focus on user-centric product storytelling. Outside of work, Sriram explores emerging startups and the venture capital ecosystem, and spends weekends working on his tennis game.

Sriram Kothandaraman

Product Development Process

Community Post

I spent 6 hours writing the spec. I built the prototype in 1. Here's what I learned

Illia Smoliienko is the founder & engineering leader at Sivense, an expert with over a decade of experience in Industrial IoT and the implementation of Predictive Maintenance strategies. Throughout his career, Illia has led the development of comprehensive ecosystems of products and services addressing the core needs of IIoT platform users. He has successfully deployed large-scale condition monitoring projects for global companies such as DHL, Michelin, Nike, Nestlé, and Tesla.


Illia Smoliienko 

Product Management Career

Training developers as an investment: How technical leaders can identify real ROI

Kateryna Ovechenko is a product and security leader working at the intersection of AI, EnergyTech, and climate resilience. With over 13 years of experience across cybersecurity, QA leadership, and regulated industries, she focuses on building AI-driven systems that are trustworthy, explainable, and usable in real-world conditions. Kateryna has worked with energy and infrastructure products across Europe and contributes to global security communities, including the CEH Scheme Committee.

Kateryna Ovechenko

Why ClimateTech products fail at deployment

Cris Valerio is a seasoned product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling products and teams at Uber, Instacart, and All Day Kitchens. A former Bloomberg financial news journalist and IDEO innovator, she blends storytelling, design thinking, and sharp execution to drive results. As a trainer with Mind the Product, she helps PMs apply real-world tools to solve complex challenges at scale. You can read more about her work on her Substack: https://9to5withcris.com/

Find out more about Mind the Product training here: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/training/

Cris Valerio

The tinkering advantage: Why small business projects make you a better product manager

Tasnim Nazeer is an features editor for Mind the Product and an award-winning journalist and reporter. 

Tasnim Nazeer

As the Whitespace Innovation Lab Product Lead, Emma helps organisations understand their big problems, and through user centred design practices and a product mindset, create innovative solutions.
She has over 17 years product and innovation experience across startups and large enterprises in eComm, insurance, retail and consultancy. This has included a number of digital transformation programmes, and the creation of an Innovation Lab. Most recently she was a coach on the Catalyst Co-Founders programme.
Outside White Space -she shares a passion for inclusive innovation through the setup and co-ordination of local meetups and conferences such as ProductTank Belfast, Lean Coffee Belfast, NIDC, and Product Camp Belfast; is a trainer for Mind the Product, and coaches people in Product Leadership.

Emma Mulholland

Feeling lost in Product? Emma Mulholland on burnout, resilience and finding your way back

Gopikrishnan Anilkumar is a Principal Product Manager (Technical) at Amazon, where he focuses on building scalable AI and enterprise systems. His experience spans speech recognition, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI frameworks, and consumer apps. With a background in both business and technical strategy, he is passionate about designing AI products that are trustworthy, governed, and deliver real-world impact. Outside of work, he mentors aspiring product managers and writes on the intersection of AI, technology, and product leadership.



Gopikrishnan Anilkumar

 Continuous upskilling as a product manager: Five lessons that changed my career

Mike Hyzy is Vice President of AI Product Development and Enablement at CGI and a recognized national leader in enterprise AI strategy. He partners with executives to maximize AI investments, optimize costs, and achieve scalable growth through innovative, behavioral science-based strategies and frameworks—including his AI Adoption Acceleration Framework (A3F). Mike also leads CGI’s Product Studio, accelerating innovation from experimentation and product strategy to AI framework design and successful go-to-market execution, transforming visionary ideas into measurable ROI. As the author of Gamification for Product Excellence, Mike combines behavioral science, strategic foresight, and cross-functional leadership to accelerate digital adoption and drive innovative product development.

Michael Hyzy

Eight skills, one journey: How mastering product management transformed my career

Bridge the learning gap: product theory vs product practice

Sunday Rewind: Organizing around complex products at the intersection of physical and digital by Matthew Cornford

Moshe Mikanovsky

A framework to help you pick the right product tool

Tejaswi is a customer-obsessed and innovative product manager, with 6+ years industry experience. Currently, he is a Product Manager at JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. building next-gen sales experiences in the Global Bank. Before that, at Splunk, he worked on go-to-market demos and feature development for Security &amp; Observability use cases. At Amazon ads, he worked on several initiatives streamlining customers' billing experience, aligning with tax compliance, and automating billing in international markets. Earlier, he worked in early-stage startups to build a zero-to-one personal financial planning application at MoneyPlanned, and AI data pipelines at Akridata.