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Allison Morton

Allison is a senior product and business leader with over 15 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming complex digital products and organizations at global companies like Zalando and Procter & Gamble. She has operated at Director level across product, ESG topics, and general management roles, leading large teams and managing product portfolios with high […]

Cristina Bustos

Cristina has 11+ years of experience in Product Management, leading digital transformation in aviation with Swiss Aviation Software. She currently drives strategy and delivery for AMOSeTL, a mobile technical logbook solution, and leads five cross-functional teams in building a secure digital TechOps ecosystem for airlines worldwide. As Head Coach at Ignite Your Path Coaching, Cristina […]

Ovidiu Tindea

Ovidiu is a product leader with 9 years in product management across B2B SaaS products. As the most senior individual-contributor PM at PriceHubble, a Swiss PropTech SaaS B2B scale-up, he drives global product initiatives, from AI agents offering to the enterprise platform that powers large-scale customer solutions. Previously, at Continental, he headed Product Management for […]

Sanchit Juneja

18+ Years of Tech Leadership Experience in tech Across The US, South-east Asia, and Europe with Organizations such as Booking.com, GoJek, Rocket Internet, and National Instruments. Currently Senior Director-Big Data & ML/AI with Tripadvisor. Industry Experience: Finance, Tech Product Experience: B2B, B2C, B2B2C, Internal Products Mentoring Languages: English Fun Fact: “Amateur chess (ELO 2241) and […]

Edgar Kussberg

Edgar is a product leader with 20+ years of experience driving growth at the intersection of AI, SaaS, and developer tooling. From startup CPO to scaling enterprise platforms used by millions, he thrives on building products that define categories and deliver measurable impact. At Sonar and Snyk, he led AI platform strategies, scaled cross-functional orgs, […]

Rainer Utsch

Rainer Utsch is Vice President of Products & Pricing at Fressnapf, Europe’s leading retailer of pet supplies. In his role, he is responsible for digital product strategy and pricing for more than 2,000 stores and digital touchpoints in ten countries. With over 15 years of experience in digital product development, he combines strategic clarity with […]

Letícia Patricio

Letícia supports product professionals who are navigating complex work and trying not to lose themselves in the process. She brings 10+ years of experience across early-stage startups and scaled tech environments, with a background in product design, strategy, and applied AI. At Unity, she led the roadmap for Safe Voice, a machine learning-powered moderation tool […]

Mariya Moeva

Mariya is a senior product manager with 15+ years experience in the tech industry, including growing products from zero to millions of active users. She’s currently building open source products at Google. Her path to a product career has been unconventional, starting with classical Japanese literature and passing through webspam and developer advocate roles along […]

Keli Kulaj

Keli is a Senior Product Manager with a strong background in economics, business, and building complex software products in regulated industries. After graduating in Economics and Management and completing a Master’s in International Business Management, she has led product management in the software sector — first in energy, where she worked on billing and trading […]

Fabrizzio Servetti

Fabrizzio Servetti is a Principal Product Manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling digital products across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS platforms. He currently works at Oracle NetSuite, leading product initiatives for global commerce connectors used by merchants worldwide. Before that, he spent several years at Delivery Hero, where he led an internal […]

Sören Weber

Sören has always been passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems. With a background in computer science and economics, he has spent his entire career at the intersection of technology and business. He started out as a founder, building a social media startup, and then moved into management consulting, helping companies with digital […]

Juliane Bürkle

Juliane is Director of Product at Abacus Umantis and has been driving the evolution of HR tech solutions for many years. With deep expertise in product strategy, integrations, and leadership, she helps organizations shape digital recruiting and HR processes for the future. As a mentor at the Product Academy, Juliane brings hands-on experience: she has […]

Qussay Najjar

Qussay works with people on their career, complex problem-solving, or personal well-being. He brings 20 years of experience building digital products, including a decade in Product Management. His expertise spans many domains like OTT, video platforms, payments/subscriptions, content, and eCommerce. Currently, he works as a Product Manager at YouTube. Industry Experience: Media, Tech, Education, Health, […]

Bedrettin Güner

Bedrettin Güner is a Group Product Manager at Just Eat Takeaway (JET), leading the Optimizing Delivery domain — covering ETA, Courier Location, and corresponding Analytics products across all JET markets. With over 15 years of experience across technical consulting and product management, he focuses on solving complex problems and enabling teams to succeed through clear […]

Stefan Richter

As a fractional and interim CPO, Stefan Richter helps founders, CEOs, and product leaders from startups and scaleups build and scale leading consumer products in FinTech, eCommerce, and Marketplaces. With 15+ years of experience, he has built products and teams from the ground up and transformed underperforming Product & Engineering orgs — operating in lean, […]

Miroslav Remias

Miro Remias, armed with a degree in electrical engineering, has built a robust 15-year career in digital products spanning content, brand, and product management. His journey began in customer care, moving through various technical and leadership roles, which sparked his transition into product management driven by a passion for understanding customer needs. Over the years, […]

Ali Dogan

Ali is a Product Manager at Just Eat Takeaway, where he focuses on building tools and automating processes for the internal customer service department. His path into product began as a Scrum Master, where he spent several years helping teams improve their agile delivery. This experience working closely with product teams sparked his passion for […]

Vipul Agarwal

Vipul is a soloprenuer who has multiple apps and projects using AI live with actual customers using them right now. He has worked in product roles in companies of various sizes and had the opportunity to work in an individual contributor and a people manager role. In the beginning of 2024 he decided to take […]

Arpit Shrimal

Arpit is a Product Leader with the brain of an Engineer, heart of a Designer and a strong desire to make someone’s life easier. He has 17 years of experience across different roles and geographies. Have worked on various new product launches and transformation programs at companies such as British Telecom, Telstra, Telenet, Comcast, DIRECTV […]

Stephanie Morales

Stephanie is an accomplished and versatile Senior Product Manager with a passion for Product Strategy, Product Operations, and User Research. She is currently a Group Product Manager at Frontify, a leading Swiss SaaS provider for brand management. Her Product Management journey began in 2016, after completing a User Research Design study program. Since then, Stephanie […]

Jyoti Bhatia

Jyoti has 15+ years of product experience and carried out over 500+ interviews throughout her professional career. She has coached 200+ candidates toward success, working as a strategic product and technical product manager in multiple technology companies like Microsoft, Facebook (Instagram) and security focused organizations with a passion for solving critical business problems. She is […]

Katarina Lechner

Kat has over 10 years of experience in bringing successful products to life and leading product and BI teams in fintech, proptech and procuretech (365.bank, Crowdhouse, Archlet, Legartis). She enjoys spending time with the customers, understanding their feelings and turning complex problems into powerful and simple data products. She loves the learning process and as […]

Cor Strobos

Cor Strobos worked in operational roles at Booking.com for a few years, during which he realized his passion for Product Management. It took a lot of reading and connecting with the right people, but after 3 years he finally managed to land his first PM role in 2021. After that, accelerated growth followed after joining […]

Dominic Manwani

Dominic is an expert in Product Discovery and is currently the User Research Lead at Siemens. He has been coaching and building Product Strategy capabilities in large, medium and small companies throughout his career. This has been achieved by building capabilities from behavioural science that stem from his degrees in Psychology and Masters in Business […]

Gaurav Gulrajani

Gaurav serves as Head of Product at Motorola Solutions, where he is responsible for mission-critical applications for Blue light forces (Police, Fire, EMS). To learn more about this exciting field, see Gaurav’s presentation on YouTube. Prior to product management, Gaurav was part of the Sales organization where he was responsible for solution sales to Europe-based […]

Mario Schwarz

Mario is originally from the South of Germany where “Schaffa schaffa, Häusle baua” (meaning work, work, work and build houses) is the people’s slogan and deeply rooted into its’ culture. This has shaped his strong work ethic and high resilience while staying humble from a young age on. He is a Product Enthusiast and Leader […]

Tania Forshtadt

Tania is an experienced product leader specialising in AI/ML-driven products across fintech (fraud), climate-tech, and logistics. She spent nine years at Booking.com, where as Group PM she built and scaled the Fraud Prevention product area from 0→6 teams, launched new markets, and led high-impact ML initiatives that protected millions of customers. She later joined Dexter […]

Alessandro Petri

Alessandro is a seasoned B2B product leader with 20 years professional experience across different roles in different industries, always at the intersection of people, business and technology. His background includes roles in software engineering, technology adoption and change management, customer success and more recently product leadership as VP Product at Celonis, Signavio, SAP and QuantPi. […]

Robert Schenkenfelder

Robert Schenkenfelder has entered the product scene from an engineering side of life, having been both Android and iOS developer previously before becoming a Product Owner and making his way up to several Product Leadership positions. He loves the combination of well-crafted software and a product with great user experience, but even more so helping […]

David Nydegger

David is a versatile product leader with over 15 years of experience in building and scaling digital products and business models. After graduating from University of St. Gallen, David started his career in technology consulting and then moved on to become a co-founder of the tech startup Localina. Having exited the startup to local.ch (Swisscom) […]

Chiemela Ogu

Chiemela is a seasoned product leader with a strong background in SaaS, financial services and automotive technologies. He has led cross-functional teams across Europe and Africa, delivering impactful digital solutions for global brands. Currently building impactful backend services powering millions of customers within the Volkswagen Group. Prior to his current role, he scaled telecommunication asset […]

Daniel Käser

Daniel is a product leader with clear goal to maximize the team’s impact, by creating a best-practices, modern and product-centric product development organization that builds products that users love. He’s currently the CPO of Migros Online, where they have built a new product organization from scratch with a new vision of a digital supermarket that […]

Zeeshanul Haque

Zeeshanul has been product mentor for various platforms like Upraised and helps upskill budding product managers. He is currently working as Product manager in Uber helping evolve the Uber payment ecosystem with newest payment methods. Previously as a Product manager in Flipkart, he has driven key initiatives like ML lead cataloging service, Flipkart Knowledge Graph […]

Julia Bastian

Julia Bastian is a Product Leader with 9+ years of experience building and scaling digital products and driving innovation. She began as an innovation consultant, helping corporates foster intrapreneurship and adopt new technologies. As VP Product at Alasco, a venture-backed proptech, she scaled the product and engineering team from 5 to 50. Today, she leads […]

Jakob Gehring

Over 20+ years, Jakob has built products, scaled marketplaces, and led cross-functional teams across digital industries: – Director of Growth Product at AutoScout24, Europe’s biggest vehicle marketplace – Product Growth Lead at mobile.de, Germany’s largest automotive platform – 15 years in technical and product consulting for global brands, including Mercedes and Adidas. Industry Experience: Tech, […]

Aïda Centelles

Aïda is a product management and product marketing leader with a passion for strong product strategy. Having worked on a range of successful products and services at companies such as SAP, Bosch, Blue Yonder or Sage, she currently serves as Director for Process Intelligence Product Marketing at SAP. Prior to this role, she worked at […]

Jasmine Comi

Jasmine is in product for more than 7 years now with a wide experience both in B2B and B2C companies in diverse industries. In the last two experiences, she is working closely with AI-driven technology and experimenting a lot on how to expand the knowledge within the team. On top of it, she is keen […]

Nesrine Changuel

Nesrine Changuel is an experienced product coach and trainer with over a decade of experience building globally used and loved products such as Skype, Spotify, Google Meet, and Chrome. She is the author of the Product Delight book and she is globally known for her focus on emotional connection and user delight. With a background […]

Stephanie Leue

Over the last 17+ years, Stephanie has led product at PayPal, Contentful, Doodle, and now Ringier. Along the way, she has seen the same pattern repeat: smart teams stuck in the build trap. Her work is about fixing that disconnect. She helps leadership teams make the right bets, avoid wasted cycles, and build organizations that […]

Yves Studer

Yves is an accomplished tech leader and entrepreneur with a passion for scaling agile teams and driving growth. He spent 8 years in leadership roles at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group (real estate platforms homegate.ch and Immoscout24), building and scaling product organizations from the ground up, culminating in three years as a COO of CASASOFT, a […]

Vanaja Sriskandarajah

Vanaja is a fin-tech enthusiast, with over 10 years of banking and financial services experience. She currently leads the product team at Billie, which is aiming to revolutionize the B2B financing space. Prior to that, she was shaping the premium cards and insurance offering at N26 and helping it scale from a start-up to a […]

Nina Schneider

Leading people with heart and experience, specialised in B2B and go-to-market. Nina is a product leader with a background in business strategy and international relations. She is currently the chief product officer for a software company helping enterprises in Europe to turn their meetings into an instrument to achieve visionary goals and a venue for […]

Tobias Quelle

Tobias Quelle is an experienced e-commerce and digital business expert with a proven track record in several leading positions in the retail and ecommerce industry. He is a passionate executive product and tech leader with a strong background in building high performance product teams, executing a customer driven product strategy and delivering products customers love. […]

Chiedza Muguti

Chiedza Muguti is a Berlin-based product strategist and speaker with over 17 years’ experience shaping digital solutions across technology, public health, and social impact. She has worked in London, Berlin, and as a consultant in Harare, leading initiatives across the financial services and public health sectors, and within both private and non-governmental organisations. Passionate about […]

Aude Morandi-Tinguely

After starting her career in management and marketing, Aude transitioned to digital product management 12 years ago. Following several years as Director of Product for the classified marketplace anibis.ch at Swiss Marketplace Group (formerly Scout24), she is now the Director of AI Product Management at Swisscom. In this role, she oversees a product portfolio of […]

Regula Marti

Regula Marti is Chief Product Officer at Tamedia, leading the digital product strategy for some of Switzerland’s most influential media brands. She’s passionate about shaping the future of journalism at the intersection of technology, content, and engaged audiences. With a background in International Relations and broad leadership experience in product, UX, and digital innovation, she […]

Cosima Lefranc

Cosima Lefranc has 10 years in product management with a background in business intelligence and finance. She worked mostly in B2B2C marketplaces in the hiring (testingtime), finance (liiva) and proptech industries. She has been a product leader, mentor and coach for 6 years. She loves classical music, hiking, skiing and all water sports 😃. Her […]

Dan Kreibich

Dan is an experienced venture builder and product visionary. With a background in travel-tech and sustainability, Dan has a proven track record of scaling innovative products that drive positive change. In the industry, he has worked for companies such as Flightright and later building multiple VC-backed ventures within the Lufthansa Innovation Hub. Dan is known […]

Tilke Judd

Tilke Judd is the Founding Product Manager at Cradle, a biotech startup that enables biologists to optimize proteins using machine learning. Previously, she was a Product Leader at Google for more than a decade, working on Google Search, the Google Assistant, and YouTube. She completed her Bachelors in Math, and PhD in Computer Graphics from […]

Dominique Jost

Dominique is the Head of Product at Doist, makers of Todoist and Twist, where he’s building a world-class, remote, and async-first product organization that’s shaping and shipping meaningful products in an age of AI abundance and increasing mediocrity. A former engineer turned product leader with a 20+ year career, he remains fascinated by the intersection […]

Iulia Jacobsson

Iulia is a seasoned product leader and advisor with vast experience across industries and business models. She’s currently advising and coaching product leaders and scale-ups on topics ranging from strategy, organizational design, pricing and GTM, to specific leadership topics. In her most recent operator role as VP Product @ Beekeeper she scaled the product, business […]

Marc Abraham

Starting his career as a corporate lawyer, Marc made the transition into digital technology initially as a project manager and then as product manager. Marc has been managing products for the last 8 years, working on a range of successful digital products/services, at companies such as 7digital, carwow, YouView, Not on the High Street, WorldFirst […]

Phil Bergdorf

Phil started his career during the dot-com bubble, at an agency that didn’t survive the crash. But he stuck with the field because he’d been fascinated by the possibilities of the internet ever since his first late-night IRC chats as a teenager. Before joining Migros Online, he worked at several web agencies, launched an online […]

Isabel Steiner

Isa Steiner began her professional career in 2003 at Swisscom Innovations as an R&D developer and project manager. In 2008, she joined local.ch as Engineering Director. After several more years in leadership positions within the Swisscom environment, she took on a new role as VP Business Development at the Swisscom Outpost in Silicon Valley. She […]

Alexandra Lung

Alexandra is an experienced product leader, C-suite executive, corporate advisor, leadership mentor and public speaker. 17+ years of experience in building and scaling digital products across various industries, with a strong focus on revenue growth and user experience. In her previous roles she has led the product and design teams at Aircall through extensive growth […]

Andrew Martinez-Fonts

Andrew is a veteran product manager and product leader with experience at Bay Area companies like Yelp, eBay, Prosper, and Silver Spring Networks. He has a degree in Product Design from Stanford University, and spent the first five years of his career as a digital product designer at various agencies. In 2016, Andrew moved from […]

Tim Herbig

Tim is a product and business leader, as well as a prolific writer, podcaster, and speaker. Currently, he’s responsible for the overall sales, product, engineering, and marketing efforts behind the leading conversion optimization platform Iridion. He previously shaped digital products at XING, Gruner+Jahr, and several smaller startups where he held product leadership roles for more […]

Ketan Gupta

Ketan is a Product Leader who is passionate about building ideas into great products that are beautifully designed, functional and delightful. He is currently a Product Manager at Booking.com headquarters in Amsterdam. He holds extensive experience building products at companies at different stages – startup, growth and large-scale, where he built and scaled products in […]

Colleen Graneto

Colleen has 20+ years of experience building products and teams at renowned companies including Airbnb, Procter & Gamble, CME Group, and various dynamic startups, plus building her own handmade jewelry business with artisans she met while living in Ecuador. She is currently a product coach, partnering with product leaders to build their teams, growth strategies, […]

Anurag Chitlangia

Anurag Chitlangia is a Product Lead for Alternative Payments at Uber, where he leads the portfolio across Rides & Eats—helping customers pay with their preferred methods across 70+ markets. His work sits at the intersection of user experience, reliability, cost, and compliance, with a simple goal: make payments feel “invisible” so riders and eaters can […]

Alexandru Bleau

Alex is an experienced product leader that has been building and developing products for 15 years in advertising, SaaS, mobile apps and games and physical, educational, travel, blockchain and energy industries. Both with and without AI and recently GenAI. He’s also had the chance to experience working at companies with 2, 20, 200 and over […]

Noam Ben-Haim

As a Product Leader at Uber, Noam heads the global Payment organization, managing a processing volume that rivals the economy of a mid-sized nation. His product philosophy was honed during a 12-year tenure at Google, where he built ground-breaking tools like Google Transit and Google Flights. With a background that includes leadership roles at Checkout.com […]

Magnus Hofer

Magnus is an Agile Coach and former Product Leader with several years of experience in building empowered, high-performing teams across startups and enterprise environments. He has led agile transformations, scaled product organizations, and coached teams to create real customer and business value. He is currently an Agile Coach at BRACK, continuing his journey to become […]

Sascha Kropf

Sascha has more than 7 years of experience as Head of Product Management and over 5 years of experience as Head of Engineering. In total, he brings 20 years of experience in value creation across various industries such as medical technology, life sciences, rail, machinery, and others, ranging from software solutions to capital goods. His […]

Tanja Lau

At Product Academy, Tanja combines her passion for continuous learning with her extensive background as a product leader. She has co-founded start-ups in Munich, Madrid, and Zurich, gaining valuable entrepreneurial experience that she now passes on in her classes and as a frequent public speaker. Recognized among the Top 30 Women in Product in Europe […]

Kristina Walcker-Mayer

Kristina brings over 16 years of digital experience to her role as Chief Product Office at Aily. Previously, she served as CEO and CPO at Nuri, where she defined the company’s strategy, built leadership teams, and guided the company through both growth phases and times of crisis. Prior to that, Kristina led and scaled various […]

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