Valerie enjoys working as a Brand Marketing Operations Manager at Google. Prior she held various lead marketing, and consulting roles focused on women in action sports. Additionally, she held positions as a Marketing Project Manager at MiresBall brand design agency, and in Product Marketing at Spy Optic Eyewear. Valerie has a BA in Communications, Advertising emphasis, Marketing minor from San Diego State University, and is PMP certified. She is a volunteer at Mind the Product, City Surf Project in San Francisco, and sits on the board for Women’s Skateboarding Alliance.

Valerie Gee

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Lean Product Management

Product Management Conference

Product Management Skills

Video

How to Influence the Business by David J Bland

Janna Bastow is one of the co-founders of Mind the Product, and kicked off her first event for product people with ProductCamp London in 2010, in an effort to meet and learn from other product managers. 

As a product manager always looking for better tools, Janna also co-founded <a href="https://www.prodpad.com/" title="product management and roadmapping software">ProdPad</a>, product management and roadmapping software for product people. 

She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”

Janna Bastow

Data Driven Product Management

Product Management Process

Video: Lean, Fast Feedback and Leopard Print

Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller <em>Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams</em> (O'Reilly, 2017).

Martin Eriksson

Startup Product Management

Video: Lean Product Development

Video: Is purpose the new pivot?

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

Prioritisation

SUNDAY REWIND: Enter the matrix – lean prioritisation

With over 16 years of product innovation experience, Adam is currently CPO at Prodigy Finance. His current project involves democratising access to high ROI education, in order to unlock potential in emerging and underserved markets. 

A self-described workaholic, Adam previously built and ran two successful startups, while simultaneously working in tech consultancies, large fintech and in global banking. His passion is to create products that have a substantial and positive impact on society. He specialises in fintech and social networks.

Adam Darcy

Agile Product Development

Product Development Process

Case Study: Launching PayMe from HSBC

Timo Hilhorst is Head of Product at SEEK, based in Melbourne, Australia. Previously he worked in London, heading up MondayLabs, the innovation lab at reed.co.uk, focusing on validating new ideas in the digital recruitment space. Timo loves hearing and reading about anything product and leadership related. You can find him on Twitter @timohilhorst.

Timo Hilhorst

Product EQ

Product Management Career

Want Better Product Managers? Throw Them In at the Deep End

I'm a product leader with background in product management, experience strategy, and digital innovation. I've got lots of consulting experience (ThoughtWorks, AWS), and have worked in staff teams too (Amazon). I spent a while understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile, and wrote a book with the same name to share what I'd learned (O'Reilly, 2017). Read my monthly newsletter—it's good!

Jonny Schneider

Frameworks

Product Design

Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together

Kieran is Product Director at Trim: content auditing and governance made easy. Trim makes it easy to find out how your website is performing using readability analysis and content-specific analytics. Use Trim to keep your website up to date using page owners and review dates. Check it out at www.gettrim.co

Kieran Forde

Product Launch

Product Leadership

Building a Product Startup Within an Agency

Kate's product management, org design, and marketing background spans more than 25 years. She has had a front-row seat to the evolving ways products are discovered, defined, built, and delivered and now takes her hands-on experience into organizations of all shapes and sizes as a consultant, coach, and advisor; helping to create authentic, high-performing cultures, teams, and products. Her consulting experience has taken her around the world, guiding clients that range from disruptive start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Her first book,
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hiring-Product-Managers-beyond-culture-ebook/dp/B08H2JMC96/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=kate+leto&amp;qid=1614946477&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow"> Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills</a>, has recently
been released by Sense &amp; Respond Press. Find out more at <a href="https://www.kateleto.com/" rel="nofollow"> www.kateleto.com</a>.

Kate Leto

Product Management Characteristics

Get Your Team Experimenting More by Using One Little Word…

Laure Parsons is Senior User Researcher at Joya Communications, makers of the popular Marco Polo App. Previously she was Senior Product Manager at Notion. Laure has spoken at SXSW, Grace Hopper Celebration, ProductTank, and Optimal Workshop Roadshow, among others. She is a neuroscience geek and endlessly curious about what makes people do what they do. Find her on Twitter and Medium @laurex.

Laure Parsons

What is Product Management?

Oprah versus Spock: Advice from Dan Olsen and The Lean Product Playbook

Lean experiments: Tristan Kromer on better product process

Diego Pereira is a Mechanical and Industrial Engineer from Brazil and has spent the last 8 years working in multiple Software (products and projects) development teams bringing some Lean expertise to those teams. He now works in sunny Florianópolis-Brazil as Product Manager for the beloved RD Station team.

Diego Pereira

Bringing MVP Culture to Every Product Feature

Product leader based in Los Angeles, California. Founder of Productfolio.com, PMA.LA, and. Author of the book, The Smarter Startup (Pearson).

Neal Cabage

Evaluating Market Dynamics with the Startup Scorecard

Greg Fisher, founder of <a href="http://www.berkeleysg.com/">Berkeley Sourcing Group</a>, has a strong manufacturing and engineering background, and is proficient in Mandarin. After graduating from UC Berkeley with an engineering degree, Mr. Fisher worked in the medical device, hard drive storage, ice cream, and professional tools industries in various management, manufacturing, and quality control capacities.

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