product-leader
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Irene Chung
Irene Chung is a product builder and former startup founder who leads collaboration product work at Webflow, the visual web development platform. She co-founded and co-ran StellarEmploy, a data-driven recruiting tool for high-turnover hourly jobs that was later acquired by Learning Collider, then built collaboration and integrations products at Dropbox before joining Webflow. Trained with dual graduate degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan, she describes herself as a builder focused on how people use technology to think and work together.
Quentin Perrot
Quentin Perrot is Chief Product Officer at Zenysis Technologies, a Y Combinator-backed company that builds data integration software for ministries of health and government agencies across four continents. A Stanford-trained product leader who has lived and worked in six countries, he oversees the roadmap for Harmony, Zenysis's open-source platform used to knit together fragmented health data sources.
Ross McNairn
Ross McNairn is the Edinburgh-based co-founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, a legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. A lawyer-turned-operator, he sold his first startup to Skyscanner, then spent five years as CPO/CPTO at TravelPerk scaling it from $1m to roughly $170m ARR. In 2023 he co-founded Wordsmith with Volodymyr Giginiak and Robbie Falkenthal; by mid-2026 the company had raised $100m total, including a $70m Series B led by Highland Europe and Index Ventures, and counts BT, Canva, Financial Times, Sage, Starling and Trip.com among 500+ customers.
Steve Elliott
Steve Elliott is the founder and CEO of Dotwork, an AI-driven platform that connects corporate strategy to execution. He previously founded AgileCraft, which Atlassian bought in 2019 for $166M and rebranded as Jira Align, after which he ran product for the tool inside Atlassian. He co-founded The Uncertainty Project, a community for product leaders, and wrote The Decisive Company, a #1 Amazon bestseller. Dotwork, founded in 2022 and based in the Austin area, raised a $12M Series A in November 2023 with backing that included Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
Christopher Carey
Christopher Carey is a San Francisco-based product executive who runs Calm Health, the clinical arm of the meditation app Calm. As SVP and General Manager, he has turned a consumer sleep-and-meditation brand into an evidence-based mental health platform sold to employers, health plans and providers, now reaching more than 26 million people. He arrived at Calm through its 2022 acquisition of Ripple Health Group and has spent two decades building digital health products at Rally Health and Blue Shield of California before that.
Ephraim Luft
Ephraim Luft is the co-founder and CEO of Togetherhood, a New York-based platform that helps schools, residential buildings and community spaces source, schedule and manage high-quality enrichment programs taught by vetted independent teaching artists and coaches. He built the company with his wife Danielle after pandemic remote learning collapsed for their own family in 2020, prompting them to rent space, hire teachers and build a classroom from scratch. Before Togetherhood, Ephraim was Chief Product Officer at luxury fashion platform Farfetch, where he sat on the executive board through its roughly $7B IPO, and earlier co-founded and led Circle of Moms, a parenting social network acquired by POPSUGAR in 2012. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Luke Groesbeck
Luke Groesbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Foundation, the buyer experience platform that drags homebuilding - one of the last big offline industries - online. After two decades building and scaling Silicon Valley startups including the now-public Opendoor and Eventbrite, he teamed up with two Opendoor colleagues to build what they call 'Shopify for homebuilders': white-labeled apps that carry a buyer from first tour through closing and into the warranty years. Backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, Foundation grew 5x in 2025 and now powers the homeowner apps of more than 40% of the top-200 U.S. builders.
Riccardo Pellegrini
Riccardo (Ricky) Pellegrini is the co-founder and CEO of Knode.ai, a New York-based AI sales-management platform that mines sales conversations to coach reps, score calls, and turn winning behaviors into repeatable playbooks. A Harvard College and Harvard Business School graduate, he built his career as a product leader - Head of Product for AWS Data Exchange and VP of Product at RapidSOS - before founding Knode in 2023 with Nicholas Horelik and Henry Katz. He is an inventor on multiple software patents and an active angel investor.
Samira Daswani
Samira Daswani is the founder and CEO of Manta Cares, a San Francisco healthtech company building clinically trusted, AI-enabled tools that help cancer patients and caregivers navigate the maze of treatment. A bioengineer trained at MIT and Wellesley with a master's in healthcare design from Stanford, she spent her early career at McKinsey and as VP of Product at diagnostics company Visby Medical before launching Manta Cares in 2022. The company raised an oversubscribed $5.4M seed round led by Pear VC and Sozo Ventures and now serves thousands of users. She also hosts the podcast 'Patient from Hell.'
Sergei Sorokin
Sergei Sorokin is the co-founder and CEO of Highlight, a San Francisco company building a shared intelligence layer for the agentic age of work. He spent roughly eight years at Discord as one of its earliest product hires and eventual VP of Product, helping scale the platform from a few million users to hundreds of millions and building its revenue business, including Nitro, from zero. After Discord he advised and built AI startups, then took the helm of Highlight in March 2026 alongside a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures. His thesis: in the workplace, AI is no longer bottlenecked by intelligence, but by coordination.
Ashish Desai
Ashish Desai is the CEO of Monograph, the San Francisco software company that helps architecture and engineering firms run the business side of the practice - budgets, staffing, forecasting and billing. An electrical engineer turned product leader, he scaled product at 99designs, Handshake and Shutterfly before joining Monograph as Chief Product Officer in July 2023 and stepping up to CEO in 2026, succeeding co-founder Robert Yuen. His pitch is simple: software that understands how architects actually work, so firms can spend more time on design and less time guessing at their numbers.
Christopher O'Donnell
Christopher O'Donnell is the co-founder and CEO of Day.ai, an AI-native CRM that captures customer relationship context automatically so people stop doing manual data entry. He spent roughly a decade as Chief Product Officer at HubSpot, where he led the 'startup within a startup' that turned a marketing tool into a CRM capable of challenging Salesforce. He founded Day.ai in April 2023 with longtime HubSpot colleague Michael Pici, and the company raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia. Off the clock, O'Donnell is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who fronts the Boston rock band The Providers.
Eric Allen
Eric Allen is the CEO and President of LISNR, the Cincinnati-based company turning ordinary sound into a secure data channel. A self-described product guy with 30-plus years in software, he previously ran a $250M audio-fingerprinting business unit at Gracenote and helped win two Emmy Awards for interactive television. Since taking the helm in 2018, he has steered LISNR's pivot into contactless payments and proximity verification, attracting investment from Visa and pushing data-over-audio as a software alternative to NFC, Bluetooth, and QR codes.
Priyanka Jain
Priyanka Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Evvy, a New York precision women's health company building the largest dataset on the vaginal microbiome. A former Head of Product at AI hiring startup pymetrics and a Stanford Mayfield Fellow, she pivoted from making hiring fairer to closing the gender health gap. Under her leadership Evvy launched the first CLIA/CAP/CLEP-certified at-home metagenomic vaginal microbiome test, raised a $14M Series A, and landed Jain on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc.'s Female Founders lists.
Sanjiv Sanghavi
Sanjiv Sanghavi is the co-founder and CEO of Texture, a New York company building an operating system for the distributed energy grid that ingests data from batteries, solar, EVs, chargers and smart devices and lets utilities act on it in real time. He co-founded ClassPass before fitness was a category, ran product as CPO at the supply-side energy giant Arcadia, and now wires together a fragmented grid that was built to push power one direction and is being asked to do the opposite. Texture has raised roughly $23M and counts more than 50 OEM integrations including Tesla, FranklinWH and SolarEdge.
Jitesh Ghai
Jitesh S. Ghai is the President and CEO of Hyland, the Thoma Bravo-owned content services and intelligent automation company based in Westlake, Ohio. A University of Waterloo electrical engineer who began his career building hardware, Ghai spent 14 years at Informatica reshaping it into a cloud and AI leader before stepping into Hyland's top job in May 2024 to push the firm deeper into agentic AI and unstructured content.
Scott Helmes
Scott Helmes is a senior operator on the CEO team at Gusto, the San Francisco payroll, benefits and HR platform used by hundreds of thousands of small businesses. A product and marketing veteran who spent more than a decade scaling CareerBuilder across North America and Europe, he joined Gusto in 2019 and has been part of the leadership group steering its move into embedded payroll, AI-assisted workflows and SMB benefits.
Shravan Goli
Shravan Goli is the CEO of Colibri Group, a professional education company serving licensed professionals across real estate, finance, healthcare, and teaching. Previously COO and CPO at Coursera through its IPO; CEO of Dictionary.com; President of Dice.com; earlier product leadership at Yahoo, Microsoft MSN, and Slide. Sits on the NETGEAR board.
Sonali Shah
Sonali Shah is the CEO of Cobalt, the leading Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform, where she took the helm in August 2024 after serving on its board. A product visionary and operator with 20+ years in cybersecurity, she pioneered the first cybersecurity risk rating platform at Bitsight, helped shepherd Veracode through its $950 million sale to Thoma Bravo, and drove Invicti's $625 million acquisition before stepping up to run Cobalt. Educated at Wharton (MBA) and the London School of Economics (MS Economics), she brings a rare mix of Wall Street discipline and deep security product expertise to a company at the intersection of human-led and AI-powered offensive security.
Amanda Richardson
Amanda Richardson is the CEO of CoderPad, the technical hiring platform used by Spotify, LinkedIn, Shopify, and Lyft to evaluate developer talent in 160+ countries. A Wall Street equities analyst turned Silicon Valley product leader, she built her career through Eclipsys, Snagajob, Prezi, and HotelTonight before taking the helm at CoderPad and driving 4x revenue growth, a landmark acquisition of French competitor CodinGame, and expansion to 4,000+ customers conducting over 3 million assessments annually.
Irana Wasti
Irana Wasti is the CEO of Thought Industries, the AI-powered customer learning and engagement platform trusted by 99 of the Fortune 100. A product leader who scaled GoDaddy's EMEA business past $500M and helped take BILL to $1B in annual revenue, she now leads Thought Industries through its transformation into an agentic AI intelligence platform that connects learning, customer behavior, and business outcomes. With a CS degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, she has spent 20+ years at the intersection of technology, product, and growth.
Ling Xiao
Ling Xiao is the CEO of Ruvixx, Inc., a San Francisco-based SaaS platform helping enterprise brands protect intellectual property, automate license compliance, and convert market opportunities into revenue. A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in Silicon Valley, he co-founded Playdom - the social gaming company acquired by Disney in 2010 for up to $763 million - and later co-founded GGWP, an AI-powered platform tackling toxicity in online gaming. Trained in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford, Xiao brings a rare combination of engineering rigor, product instinct, and entrepreneurial range that has taken him from Google's data teams to Disney's exec suite to the frontier of brand intelligence.
Mathieu Planche
Mathieu Planche is the CEO and Director of R&D at Witbe, a Paris-founded, publicly traded company (Euronext Growth) that builds AI-powered robots and platforms for video Quality of Experience monitoring and automated testing. Since taking the helm in 2019, he has steered Witbe through a rapid AI transformation - from hardware testing appliances to the industry's first agent-native video QA platform - serving 300+ broadcasters, OTT providers, and telecom operators across 120+ countries. A dual-degree engineer from CentraleSupélec and Georgia Tech, Planche rose through every rung of the Witbe ladder: consultant, UI designer, Americas ops manager, Chief Experience Officer, and Chief Product Officer before becoming CEO.
Søren Abildgaard
Søren Abildgaard is the CEO of KeyShot, the industry-leading 3D visualization and rendering platform used by designers, engineers, and marketers worldwide. A Danish-born engineer-turned-executive, he brings two decades of engineering leadership from Zendesk, Avaya, Contentful, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft to his mission of transforming KeyShot from a photorealistic rendering tool into a full-lifecycle visualization and realization platform. Having served on KeyShot's board since 2023, he stepped into the CEO role on May 1, 2025, backed by GRO Capital, with a sharp focus on AI integration, customer proximity, and strategic clarity.
Fareed Mosavat
Fareed Mosavat is a Visiting Partner at a16z Speedrun, a 12-week founder accelerator at the intersection of technology and entertainment. He came to venture capital after a career arc that started in physics simulation at Pixar and wound through product and growth leadership at Zynga, RunKeeper, Instacart, and Slack, before he ran product education for thousands of PMs as Chief Development Officer at Reforge. Today he backs AI-native B2B startups, co-hosts the Unsolicited Feedback podcast with Brian Balfour, and writes about what it actually takes to build products people love.
Katie Kirsch
Katie Kirsch is an Ecosystem Growth Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she builds the connective tissue of one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture firms - designing programs, products, and spaces that bring together the most ambitious founders, operators, and technologists. A 4x startup founder, ex-IDEO product leader, Stanford engineering graduate, and Harvard Business School MBA, she made Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2024 for consumer tech. Before joining a16z, she founded the mentorship platform Twenty and the coaching startup lume, taught entrepreneurship at Stanford's d.school and Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and volunteered in Uganda and India working on women's health and education. She launched the inaugural a16z Growth Engineer Fellowship in 2025, selecting 65 fellows from thousands of global applicants.
Peter Yang
Peter Yang is a product leader turned creator economy educator, currently a Principal Product Lead at Roblox with a decade of experience shipping features at Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Credit Karma, and Reddit. He runs Behind the Craft, a Substack newsletter and podcast with 148,000+ subscribers focused on practical AI tutorials and interviews with top product and AI leaders. He invented Twitch Raids, launched Reddit Talk, and grew Facebook Live from zero to millions of viewers — and now teaches 100,000+ subscribers how to build products and careers in the AI era.