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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 product and strategy leader with over five years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS platforms in the energy and data technology sectors. She has led cross-functional delivery and go-to-market execution for complex platforms, including ETRM systems, portfolio management tools, and compliance and billing solutions used by clients such as British Gas, […]

Fabrizzio Servetti

Fabrizzio Servetti is an experienced product leader with a track record of driving innovation and growth across industries like fintech, e-commerce, and logistics. He currently serves as Principal Product Manager at Oracle NetSuite, focusing on developing scalable solutions for enterprise-grade integrations. With over a decade of expertise, Fabrizzio has held key roles at organizations like […]

Sören Weber

Sören has always been interested in technology and its application to real-world problems. With a background in computer science and business, he has spent his entire career at the intersection of technology and business. As a founder, he built a social media startup and then moved into management consulting, where he supported companies in the […]

Juliane Bürkle

Juliane is an enthusiastic leader with a passion for working with motivated individuals, fostering an environment where people enjoy working and developing. She is dedicated to people engagement and empowerment, leveraging her extensive market knowledge in talent management and product experience to ensure sustainable success. With over 15 years of experience in sales & product […]

Qussay Najjar

Qussay has 10+ years of product management experience (as a manager and an individual contributor). He has worked on products in various domains, including video platform, OTT, content management, payments/subscriptions, recommendations and eCommerce. Currently, he works as a Product Manager at YouTube. Qussay is happy to help you with your PM career, navigating complex situations, […]

Bedrettin Güner

Bedrettin has a total of 14 years of experience in Technical Consulting and Product Management. His 8 years of technical consulting experience was in the Wind Energy industry, while he has been working in the analytics domain for the last 6 years at HelloFresh and JustEatTakeaway. As a Lead Product Manager at JustEatTakeaway, Bedrettin drives […]

Stefan Richter

Stefan is helping startup founders, CEOs, and product leaders from VC- and PE-backed growth companies to build and scale user-centric products and high-performing P&E teams. With over 12 years of experience, Stefan has a proven track record of transforming underperforming P&E organizations into thriving powerhouses and building impactful products and teams from scratch across industries […]

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 working as a Product Manager at Just Eat Takeaway, with a primary focus on automating processes and providing tools for the internal customer services department. Before transitioning to the role of Product Manager, he assisted product teams in adopting and improving agile practices as a Scrum Master for several years. During this time […]

Vipul Agarwal

Vipul has been working in B2C product roles for the past 10 years. He brings in expertise in growing mobile App products in diverse sectors, notably travel tech products such as Booking.com and currently, Trivago, where he is leading the App product. He has a wide breadth of experience spanning both sides of the marketplace across organizations […]

Dorra Mlouhi

Dorra is an experienced senior technical product manager with more than 7 years of experience. She is currently working as a senior technical product manager at Amazon. From engineering school to public speaking and leadership studies at SMU Dallas to product management, Dorra gained a wealth of experience that she is now using to build […]

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 studied Sports Management, but in 2016 decided to give tech a try when starting a job in operations at Booking.com. Even though he identified early on that he wanted to move into a Product Role, the road ahead was long and challenging. After following courses, reading books and speaking to a lot of PMs, […]

Dominic Manwani

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

Gaurav Gulrajani

Gaurav serves as Senior Product Manager at Motorola Solutions, where he is responsible for mission-critical applications for Blue light forces (Police, Fire, EMS). In such solutions, seconds matter to the life of a person, and therefore immense attention is paid to the experience, functionality and outcome to be arrived at for the end-user, be that the […]

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 leads two products at Dexter Energy – AI Powered Forecast and Renewable Trade Optimization startup in The Netherlands, focusing on Trade optimization for renewable energy clients for the spot and intraday energy markets in Europe. Positively contributing to solving the climate crisis has been a passion for a few years and she is completely […]

Alessandro Petri

Alessandro is a seasoned B2B product leader with 19 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 and SAP. His […]

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 […]

Tiziano Nessi

Tiziano has worked in several companies after graduating from the EHL Hospitality Business School where he cemented his passion for hospitality and customer centricity. He worked in Berlin for many years in different fields, from e-commerce to Corporate Venture Building where he started as a Product Manager within the METRO AG group. He successfully […]

Floriane Gramlich

Floriane is a senior product & commercial tech savvy leader with broad international experience in product management, strategy, growth, business development & analytics (17+ yrs work experience). Floriane is currently starting her own freelance and consultancy practice to support people and companies in getting better in doing product management. Before, she served as CPO/Director of […]

Benedict Marzahn

Benedict is a product manager with many years of leadership and strategy experience. After more than 10 years in the digital industry and positions at large companies such as the German media group STRÖER and the international comparison portal CHECK24, Benedict is now Head of Product at PropTech start-up Alasco and responsible for the development […]

Oliver Oechslein

Oliver is an innovative, ambitious and accomplished product leader, digitization expert and coach. Throughout his career he has enjoyed building products, staffing and leading empowered teams and collaborating with cross-functional groups of stakeholders. He has also thrived in roles where he served as product coach and mentor for product managers and teams. Currently, Oliver is […]

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 (Chimex) is a product manager who thrives at the intersection of human behaviour, business and technology. He is always delighted to build products that users love and are happy to use. He has built and managed highly visible consumer products for the past six years. Chimex is currently a Senior Product Manager at Hexad.de, […]

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 […]

Sophia Höfling

Sophia is a product person with a passion for humanizing technology who enjoys solving problems through discovery and rapid experimentation. In 2021, Sophia joined Saiga – an AI start-up developing a digital, personal assistant for private life admin – as a late co-founder and Head of Product. Before Saiga, Sophia was a product leader at […]

Julia Bastian

Julia is working as VP of Product at Alasco, a fast-scaling prop tech startup in Munich. Her passion in proudct is discovery, and she brings a large toolbox of product and innovation frameworks to the table. In her previous job as innovation consultant she supported various customers in the finance, automotive and travel industry in […]

Jakob Gehring

Jakob Gehring can reflect on more than two decades of working with digital products. Starting his career in engineering, he transitioned into product management to combine his desire to understand the user with his passion for data. Over the years, he worked for different company sizes and industries while freelancing or being an employee. In […]

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 head of product in Vita Health, a start-up in the world of health tech. She leading the product marketing team, product team and design team counting a total of 8 people. In the world of product, she has explored and experimented a lot with discovery practices and implementing them within her teams. On […]

Nesrine Changuel

Nesrine is a passionate and experienced product manager, advisor, and speaker. She has managed highly visible consumer products for the past eleven years including Chrome, Meet, Spotify, and Skype. Currently, she is working as Senior Product Manager at Google focusing on providing the best delightful user experience. Prior to Google, Nesrine worked as Product Manager […]

Stephanie Leue

Stephanie has over 20 years of experience in software companies and has been engaged in product management for over 14 years. She works on coaching and mentoring product executives in different companies and industries after completing her post-graduate study as a systemic coach. She formerly worked as Director of Product at Cotentful, where she was […]

Carlos Paz

Carlos currently works as Product Lead at Adyen. Prior to that, he served as Senior Product Manager at Booking.com. He has worked on topics involving Growth, Pricing and Machine Learning. Before Booking,com, Carlos worked with startups as a Product Manager and also as an Entrepreneur in Residence for a Startup Accelerator in London after completing […]

Karin Schöfegger

Karin Schoefegger is a math geek turned Product Manager. She is currently a PM for a product innovation group within Google Research, after leading ML based products at YouTube and Google Assistant. Prior to Google Karin gained vast experience working in various countries, from small to large organizations , from working in fast-paced startup environments […]

Yves Studer

Yves worked as a Senior Consultant for Namics/Merkle during his studies in Business Administration and Computer Science, where he was advising clients in the Financial Services area around digital services/products and all things agile. After consulting, he co-founded a circular economy startup in Germany and then joined homegate.ch as Sr. Product Manager. Here, he set […]

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 […]

Randy Silver

A recovering music journalist & editor, Randy has been working as an interactive producer & product manager across the US & UK for nearly 20 years. (Yikes!) After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media & entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s […]

Nina Schneider

A product management leader with a background in business strategy and international relations, Nina is currently working as CPO at Sherpany, a global software company helping enterprises solve the meeting madness. In her previous roles at Appway she was in charge of go-to-market and before that built and institutionalized product management during the company’s growth […]

Tobias Quelle

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

Chiedza Muguti

Chiedza is a committed and motivated servant leader of high performing product teams that continuously deliver successful outcomes based on collaborative ways of working and creative solution driven thinking. She is an assiduous Product Leader adept at growing and coaching teams in established corporates and scaling organisations, developing and implementing end to end organisational processes; […]

Hélène Mory-Levert

Hélène recently joined Zenjob as Product Leader for Machine Learning and Customer Journey. Prior to that, she has been driving product at Delivery Hero and in Zalando’s Sizing team, discovering and launching innovative machine learning based size guidance that helps customers find the right size online. She has been an advocate of machine learning based […]

Aude Morandi-Tinguely

After starting her career in management and marketing, Aude moved into digital product management 10 years ago. After several years as Director of Product for the classified marketplace anibis.ch at Swiss Marketplace Group (formerly Scout24), she is currently Director of Product Management at Swisscom, responsible for the discovery and development of conversational and generative AI […]

Regula Marti

Regula is a product manager in the media industry, passionate about being in the intersection of technology, journalism and engaged users. She currently leads the product team for the news sites of Tamedia, including Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung and Tribune de Genève. She has been with the company for over 5 years, working in various product […]

Akshay Mahajan

Akshay is an Entrepreneur on a mission to redefine the meaning of success to Finding Fulfillment for 1Bn+ people . He’s a former New Products specialist with Booking.com where he helped build a multi million dollar Travel insurance business. His entrepreneurial experience comes from the Food Tech startup HomeCookd he co-founded in Amsterdam & he’s […]

Stefania Leone

Stefania is a product leader specialized in B2B and Platform Product Management. She is passionate about technology, with a focus on how to abstract from it to fasten and facilitate application design. At Appway, she heads the product team, creating software products for the financial services industry. Previously, she was a product manager of the […]

Cosima Lefranc

Cosima is a dynamic product lead with a dual background in Business Intelligence and Quantitative Finance. She excels in developing sought-after technological products and ensuring their ongoing success through user engagement. Cosima has played a pivotal role in leading the growth of an international startup, taking it from a small team to a successful sale. […]

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 […]

Fabian Kleeberger

Fabian spearheaded product management in award-winning growth-stage and enterprise organizations. With more than a decade of leadership experience and substantial experience across the entire lifecycle of AI products, he has been the driving force behind many complex product-led transformations. He’s built up and led modern product organizations and guided existing ones to impressive successes. His […]

Tilke Judd

Tilke Judd is a Product Manager working on the Google assistant. During her 7 years at Google she was a product manager on Google Alerts, Google Search and the Google Assistant. Prior to Google she completed her BS in Math, and MS and PhD in Computer Graphics from MIT while dabbling in digital video making […]

Dominique Jost

Dominique is the Head of Product at Doist, makers of Todoist and Twist, where he is building a world-class, remote and async-first product organization. Prior to that he was the CPO at Scout24 (now Swiss Marketplace Group), Switzerland’s largest network of classifieds. He started his career writing code for web applications but quickly gravitated toward […]

Iulia Nastasa Jacobsson

Iulia brings experience from internships at Google and product manager jobs at ricardo and FIFa to her current position as Head of Product at the fast-growing startup Beekeeper.

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 […]

Saurabh Dagia

Dagia has 15 years experience solving for customer problems working in fast paced environments across the world. He has worked with companies of varying sizes from startups to industry leaders such as Amazon and Procter & Gamble. At Amazon, Dagia has led product teams across different problem spaces such as Seller tools, Alexa Shopping, and […]

Phil Bergdorf

Phil started his career during the dot-com bubble and the first agency he worked at was short lived. However, he stuck with the field because he was utterly fascinated by the possibilities of this new medium. In the following years he worked for several web agencies and launched an online video magazine with friends. After […]

Diogo Coutinho

Diogo Coutinho is a Product leader with extensive experience in consumer and B2B products, having worked for large and medium-sized companies, as well as startups. Past companies include Telefonica, Shell, Three UK, the JUST EAT Group and Adevinta. He’s currently the CPO of CloudCall, leading the Product and Technology functions, setting the vision, strategy and […]

Isabel Carbotta

Isa Steiner started her career in R&D as a research Engineer after her Computer Science studies. In 2008, she joined local.ch as an Engineering Director. After spending some years in technical leadership positions, she restarted her professional life as a human centered design consultant at Swisscom and eventually took over the PO position for the […]

Alexandra Lung

Alexandra is a product leader and a digital transformation expert who’s been in the game for more than 10 years.Originally from Romania where she worked as a consultant in new business launch. Previously held positions in marketing, communication, product strategy and development and consulting in digital transformation. She’s been building products for years touching various […]

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 is currently a product manager at Airbnb, where she is building the financial ecosystem for Airbnb hosts in over 190 countries. Prior to this role, she was part of building out and scaling the Airbnb Experiences product and business after public launch in 2016. Having worked with B2B and B2C products crossing tech, hospitality, […]

Marton Gaspar

Marton provides consultancy and coaching in product leadership, strategy and execution – drawing on 15 years experience in building and developing people, tools and processes to rapidly upskill teams in product discovery and delivery techniques and deliver fast, measurable results. He combines expertise in Product Management with knowledge of Psychology, Data Science and Chatbots to […]

Cédric Demierre

After starting his career as a software engineer for iOS app, Cédric decides after 2 years of developing apps to move to the project management in parallel to a MSc BA in entrepreneurship. After several years of experience in the agile project management, he decides to move to the product management and joins anibis.ch (scout24). […]

Anurag Chitlangia

Prior to his current role in Product at UBer and his previous product role at Just Eat, Anurag served a Payments Product Manager at Booking.com where he was working on building globally scalable, yet locally relevant payment solutions. He has been working in FinTech for the past 17 years. He did his Masters in Computer […]

Katia Cassano

Katia is passionate about building B2B and B2C products for established business and startups with more than 15 years of international experience in companies such as eBay, eDreams and Schibsted Media Group. Currently she is responsible for driving innovative credit solutions at PayPal as Lead Product EMEA. Katia has a master degree in Business Administration […]

Alexandru Bleau

Alex is a seasoned product manager with over 8 years experience. He has worked on or built advertising products, online services, mobile apps and games and physical, educational and travel products. He’s also had the chance to experience working at companies with 2, 20, 200 and over 1000 employees, trying out various ways of working, […]

Noam Ben-Haim

Ben Haim currently serves as Senior Director Marketplace at Booking.com in Amsterdam. Prior to that, he has been with Google between 2007 and 2019, in Zurich since 2008. His last position at Google involved leading the Flights and Packages product teams. Before, Ben Haim worked on Google Maps, leading all the directions related product, including […]

Magnus Hofer

Sascha Kropf

Sascha studied mechanical engineering and has worked in various roles in product development, including Head of R&D and Head of Product Management. With more than 20 years of experience in the B2B and MedTech sector with teams in Switzerland, Germany, USA and China, he has developed a wide range of tools. In addition to team […]

Philipp Krehl

Philipp is a passionate Product Manager by profession with a strong product sense and a penchant for human-centered product development. Currently, he is working as Senior Product Manager at Zalando SE, where he drives new product development starting from product discovery to implementation and scaling. Prior to Zalando, Philipp worked as Product Manager for Lovoo, […]

Tanja Lau

At Product Academy, Tanja is combining her passion for continuous learning with her professional background as product leader. As founding partner of start-ups in Munich, Madrid and Zurich, she has gained valuable entrepreneurial experience which she passes on in her classes and as public speaker on various occasions. She was listed among the top 30 […]

Kristina Walcker-Mayer

Kristina brings 11 years of digital experience to her current role as CEO at Nuri, an online bank based in Berlin. At the beginning of her career, Kristina worked as Mobile Consultant and Account Manager for Aperto Move and icon mobile, building up mobile strategies and creating innovative mobile solutions for major clients in the […]

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