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 Conference

Stakeholder Management

Getting aligned with your exec team by Randy Silver

MTP panel: Managing your stakeholders

Building Product Teams

Business Strategy

Product Leadership

How to navigate tricky work relationships

Andres is a freelance writer and digital marketer with a background in engineering and a keen interest in the latest technology advancements. He currently helps tech companies and startups tell their stories by turning their complex ideas into easy to understand material. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn

Andres Phillips

Video

Managing misaligned stakeholders

With his background in technical editing, community building and product marketing, Chris' approach to product management is inherently centered around user narratives. He spent the first few years of his career working with the B2B developer products, prototyped an experimental technical publishing platform along the way, and then kick-started the Mind the Product platform. You can find him at ProductTank, or on twitter as @camassey.

Chris Massey

Product Management Process

How to be Bad at Product Development – Josh Mahoney

Swapna is a Product Lead at RBC in Canada, leading their innovation stream to create fintech solutions using lean methods in the financial planning and investments space. Prior to RBC, Swapna was the Head of Product at a UK-based SaaS Data intelligence company and a Product Manager at Scholastic. Her current focus is on solving user identity management, goal based planning, personalization and digital transformation use-cases for RBC. You can follow her on Medium https://medium.com/@swapna.malekar

Swapna Malekar

Community Post

Product Management Characteristics

Product Management Skills

How do you Make Your Mark as a new Product Manager?

I've been in the digital industry for over 10 years and have worked across small and large charities, as well as my own freelance projects. I am now Director of Digital at the sector leading creative agency William Joseph. 

Having been at Cancer Research UK for the last four years, I have been able to work on high volume, high profile campaigns such as Race for Life, Dryathlon and the much-quoted #nomakeupselfie. 

In that time I helped drive forward the charity’s digital product and marketing capabilities to be some of the most respected and successful in the sector. 

I'm always excited to work with other organisations, share expertise and swap cat gifs. Give me a shout!

James Gadsby Peet

Product Development Process

Minimise the Gap Between Maker and User by Henrik Kniberg

Imogen brings more than 10 years of experience in print and digital to her role as Director of Content Strategy for Mind the Product. The core of her experience comes from 10 years working as an editor for Bauer Consumer Media, a division of Europe’s largest privately-owned publishing group, and as Head of Content for Benivo, an award-winning startup.

Imogen Schels

Practical Insights and Guidance at #mtpcon London Workshops

Ben is a product leader with 20 years experience in building mobile consumer applications in both large corporate environments and startups. Most recently Vice President Of Product and UX at rewardStyle + LIKEtoKNOW.it

Ben Newell

Agile Product Development

How to Involve the Entire Organization in Your Agile Transformation

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

Justify your product decisions and get stakeholder buy-in by Teresa Torres

Tanya Koshy is Vice President of Product at UserTesting, a human insights platform. She also has worked in product management roles at Facebook, Google, and Groupon.

Tanya Koshy

Five Habits of Highly-Effective Product Teams

Holly is the Product Director for Aquila Heywood where she works with multi-disciplinary teams to create market-leading fintech products.  Holly has experience of building product strategy, teams and processes to deliver business and customer value.  She is currently embracing the challenge of wrangling legacy tech into the 21st century.  Holly has a passion for learning and knowledge sharing and can often be found helping out on the crew of the MTP conferences and speaking at product events.

Holly Donohue

Product Management

Product Roadmap

A product manager's guide to saying no

Kate Hopkins is a Vice President on the Operations Team at Mainsail Partners in San Francisco, where she helps the firm’s portfolio companies accelerate growth through product management and market strategy. Prior to Mainsail, Kate earned her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and worked in product management at Amazon and strategy consulting at Bain.

Kate Hopkins

What is Product Management?

How to Spot a Partial Product Manager

Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

Emily Tate

How to use the 5 Whys to Manage Stakeholders

I've been navigating the twists and turns of the publishing industry for the past 8 years, working in Product and Innovation roles for both small and large companies. I'm currently at BSI working in the Labs team, generating ideas and designing experiments to test my hypotheses. I have many thoughts, a lot of them are about puppies and/or cheese. But also I have some stuff to say about Product too.

Rachel Nurse

The Mindset of Empowerment by Laura Scanga

Simon is a data scientist, with a background in product management, and has worked for a range of data technology companies on both sides of the fence including vendors like Hortonworks and Red Gate Software and numerous heavy data users in retail, hedge funds, and web. He focuses on big data analytics, machine learning, and how these can be used to make better products.

Simon Elliston Ball

Sink or Swim: What can we Learn from the Vasa?

Heather Parker is a Senior Product Owner at <a href="https://theappbusiness.com/">TAB (The App Business). </a> She has worked closely with clients including Racing Post, Ford, dunnhumby &amp; RBS, leading cross-functional development teams to deliver mobile, web and backend products. 

Heather's desire to understand and improve systems and products has led her from an early career in chemistry, to operational improvement consultancy, before joining the tech industry in 2017. 

Heather is based in London and, when not at work, she can generally be found playing at open mic nights, or reading a good book with a coffee or glass of wine (depending on the time of day).