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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 look back on more than two decades 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

Once Jasmine completed her Master of Science in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology, she knew she wanted to create things and have an impact. Back in 2016, she started in Ferrero in their supply chain department to help on a new project to speed up replenishment cycles. After the project was completed, she […]

Nesrine Changuel

Nesrine is a passionate and experienced Product Manager. She has managed highly visible consumer products for the past nine years focusing on strategic initiatives that distil deeply ingrained aspects of media experience into simple, fun, and useful features. Currently, she is working as Senior Product Manager at Google, where she is focusing on increasing productivity […]

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 works for Switzerland’s largest real estate platform homegate.ch at Tamedia. He started as a Senior Product Manager, then transitioned into the role of Head of Product Management and now leads the B2C segment. Whether it is being a co-founder in startups or as a consultant for SPI-listed corporations, he is passionate about building commercially […]

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 VP Products 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 […]

Tobias Quelle

Tobias is a strong operations professional with a Diploma in Business Administration focused on Strategic Management and Business Development from HTWG Konstanz University of Applied Sciences. He is skilled in e-commerce business development, agile leadership, leading consumer-focused cross-functional teams, user experience, online marketing, category management and passionate about applied machine learning use cases.

Sandra Juras

As a self-taught Product Manager, Sandra knows how it is to learn on the job while going through and driving an agile transformation in a company. She strongly believes that Product Thinking shouldn’t stop with building a product but is a mindset on how to solve problems that deliver business value that needs to span […]

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 a career start in management and marketing, Aude moved into digital product management 5 years ago. She is currently Director of Product at Scout24, responible for anibis where she is leading three cross functional product teams, and line managing four direct reports. Her approach to work as a product leader and life as a […]

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 holds a strong belief in doing his bit to earn good Karma and contribute back to the community. He’s a Product & New Business specialist and in his current role of corporate innovation, he’s helping Booking.com evolve to a multi product Marketplace through building a new vertical. Previously as the Associate Director at Cars24.com, […]

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 doesn’t just talk the talk, she walks the walk. She develops great technological products, which are both desired and bought by customers. She ensures the success of the product and new product features as well as sustains the success by talking regularly to the users. With a dual background in Business Intelligence and Quantitative […]

Dan Kreibich

Coming from a business-IT background, starting in product management after university was a fairly logical step to start my career. After building legal-tech solutions for Flightright, I joined Lufthansa Innovation Hub where I developed several web services and apps, e.g. swiss-flightpass.ch, airlinecheckins.com, rydes.com and a few more. My personal highlight was to initiate Lufthansa Group’s […]

Fabian Kleeberger

Fabian is an experienced Product Leader with more than 10 years of experience in building a veriety of products. Currently he is working for one of Germany’s biggest educational companies, building apps that enable suceesful learning experiences for students. He has been working for small startups and large companies as a consultant – helping with […]

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

Prior to his current position as Head of Product at Doist, Dominique has been with Scout24 Switzerland for 14 years, leading the product organization consisting of multiple cross functional, agile and international teams. With a background in software engineering, he started out writing code for Immoscout24.ch, and gradually transitioned into different leadership roles in engineering […]

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 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 Science and then worked as a developer for many years […]

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 […]

Jack Berglund

Jack loves building great products that improve people’s lives and enjoys solving problems and overcoming difficult challenges. As a product leader, he believes that: great products don’t happen by accident, you can never be too customer focused and that purpose is ultimately what drives teams to achieve greatness. In the past, he served as CPO […]

Alexandru Bleau

Alex is a seasoned product manager with over 8 years experience, currently working at trivago on personalisation topics. 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 […]

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 50 […]

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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