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

Diversity and Inclusion

Product Management

How do bias and inequality hold back female product managers?

Ameya Deshpande: has been working in the consumer electronics and technology product development field for the past 10 years. He has experience developing software and hardware products for consumers, enterprises, and governments. Ameya has worked for companies such as Google, Lyft, Cummins, and Purdue University.

Ameya Deshpande

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An inside look into gender bias in targeted ads

Leslie Grandy is a global, first-to-market product executive and board advisor with a 25+ year career innovating and delivering game-changing products in publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, Discovery Communications, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., and Amazon. 
Leslie is the founder of The Product Guild, a Product and Innovation Advisory Services company, through which she has advised numerous publicly traded companies and serves on the advisory boards for several early-stage companies. Her clients have included Starbucks, Oracle, and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. Leslie is an IDEO-trained leader in Design Thinking with an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in TV/Film from Northwestern University. Leslie is also a Directors Guild of America member, working on such classic films as “The Abyss”, “Tremors”, and the award-winning motion picture “The Waterdance.”

Diversity & Ethics

How do bias and inequality hold back female product managers?

An inside look into gender bias in targeted ads

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