About

Favorite Product: Week Plan - I love how easy it is to use for organizing and making sense of my busy week

In real life: Christina is a product leader with a passion for crafting. After six internships and four years studying computer science at the University of Waterloo, she found product management. After a few years of building a foundation in execution, she launched her first product at BlackBerry in 2011. Since then she been hooked on crafting new digital things ever since. Her efforts on growth and mobile helped propel Yammer towards acquisition. Following that, Christina headed up product at early stage companies twice. Currently she’s at Credit Karma where she is the leader for new product initiatives. When she’s not crafting products or podcasting, you can find her reading, cooking, working on her fitness, or channeling her inner Martha Stewart.

In real life: Nikki is a cloud and software product Director who works with a global team of talented engineers and architects in designing and implementing innovative solutions from product inception to production. After spending over a decade working in product engineering and management for multimillion dollar technology and start-up companies, Nikki believes what truly drives innovation is not only a commitment to technological breakthroughs but also people’s passion in improving everyday lives by building products that leave a lasting impact, disrupt the industry, and are vehicles of change, while providing the best user experience. When Nikki isn’t working on her next big product release or entrepreneurial endeavors she is spending much needed time with friends and family discussing the latest politics, or simply the meaning of life. She’s an adventurous traveler who also enjoys capturing moments through photography. Nikki also holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering , M.S. in Electrical Engineering and has a corporate innovation certificate as part of the LEAD program.

Favorite Product: LinkedIn - I use it almost everyday to easily connect with professional colleagues to do business, connect people within my network and help people with their careers.

Favorite Product: I love reading and Pocket is one of my favorite go-to-apps for reading my saved articles. Truth be told, it prevents me from getting distracted with the guilty pleasure of endless scrolls and instead finish a curated list of articles.
In real life: Neha is the Senior Director of Product at Macmillan. She is leading a set of start-up products under the institutional group aimed to address challenges in higher education such as affordability of educational materials, retention and student success. She has been building, growing and scaling products in the ed-tech space for the past decade. Her experience ranging from course-ware solutions, student facing applications, to analytics and insights tools for decision makers. She has also had the honor to contribute in the non-profit sector, bridging access to quality education gap in underserved communities in over 13 countries.

In real life: Oren is a Product leader with over a decade of experience in challenging the status quo at large companies as well as start-ups.

In real life: Mark Pydynowski is the Senior Director of Product at Experian - helping 300+ businesses protect 60M+ consumers by building enterprise-level products in a white-label format. Prior to Experian, Mark led new product management and business development for Capital One's Digital Commerce B2B team. Prior to Capital One, Mark was the CMO at HonestPolicy.com - a value-based comparison shopping engine for consumer insurance. Before HonestPolicy.com, he was the co-founder and CEO of SOMARK Innovations, Inc., a venture-backed life science company (acquired by Two Oceans Pty Ltd). Mark earned his BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis and currently lives in Austin.

In real life: Tim is a Product leader with expertise in category and international expansion, as well as optimization to drive engagement and revenue. Helped Etsy grow from $525M in GMV in 2011 to $3.2B in 2017 by delivering impactful products.

Favorite Product: Airpods from Apple. Intuitive design. Just works.

In real life: Anthony Atlas is the Head of Product at ClimateAI which is accelerating climate resilience in food, water, and energy. Prior to joining ClimateAI, Anthony was Head of Strategy at Ceres Imaging. He also co-founded an enterprise SaaS startup Bloodhound. By the age of 26 he raised $5M of venture capital, and built out a team of 25 people. He is also a co-organizer of the Urban AgTech group, and co-founder of Sitting Matters. 

Favorite Product: Professional: ProductBoard, because it truly maps to the needs of a modern product manager (and after trying them all, it's the only one that I've fallen in love with!) Personal: DuoLingo, because it's a super fun way to learn a language and you can compete against your friends. (I use it to learn modern Hebrew)