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With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

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Finding your frosting as a product leader by Jeff Birkeland

Hilary has been leading product teams for over a decade and is interested in behavioural psychology. She has worked for companies across multiple industries including FinTech, PropTech, Retail, eCommerce and Media. At CBRE, she leads their global product management team for their global leasing business and marketing.

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After transitioning from digital marketing into product management and design, Johanna has delivered 10+ B2B and B2C apps from 0 to 1 and beyond in the past 6+ years and led teams of up to 15 members. With a total experience of 7+ years, her diverse background enables her to take different perspectives and lead cross-functional collaboration. She has previously taken on substantial responsibility in startup in upper management roles and is currently in a senior position for one of the leading conversational AI for enterprise startups.

Johanna regularly provides insights into product management and leadership and is also mentoring startups and product managers.

Johanna Feick

Building lean and asynchronous processes

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Balaji Ananthanpillai

Ramya Kannan is an experienced software engineering leader with a track record of successfully leading high-performance technology teams. She is passionate about translating product vision into innovative solutions, empowering engineers, and fostering strong business partnerships. With a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and over 15 years of experience in Software Engineering, Ramya has successfully launched and led cross-functional teams in some leading tech organizations like Wolfram Research, HERE, Enova, and Venmo. Ramya currently works as a Senior Engineering Manager at Venmo where she has led the successful launch of Venmo Teen Accounts, offering parents a robust spending tracking solution for their teenagers.

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Robert Schlaff is Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, transforming the company from the world’s greatest bank to the world’s greatest tech company. In his 2 decades as a Product Manager, he’s been the head of Banking Business Development at Amazon Web Services, Commercial Digital Product at AIG, and online treasury management at Citi. He started his career as a software engineer working on innovation projects that were far ahead of their time like speech enabled phone systems (via landline phones), mobile notifications (via Blackberry) and Artificial Intelligence (via Expert Systems). He blogs at schlaff.com.

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