Mission Our mission is to help people break into product management and excel on the job.

Clement is currently a Product Manager at Blend (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Initialized Capital, SV Angel, Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, and other exceptional investors), an enterprise technology company that is inventing a simpler and more transparent consumer lending experience while ensuring broader access for all types of borrowers. Previously, Clement was the Product Manager for the Customer Relationship Management Platform at Movoto Real Estate, which is the second largest online real estate brokerage in the U.S. and the only one licensed in all 50 U.S. states.

Kevin was previously a Principal Investor at Pear Ventures where he invested in and partnered with early-stage founders to help them build the foundations of category-defining companies. He was previously a Venture Investor at FundersClub (YCS12), an early-stage VC that has invested / been shareholders in companies like Instacart, Slack, Coinbase, Gitlab, Shippo, Memebox, Rappi, Flexport, RainforestQA, etc… He has previously worked as a Product Manager at AltSchool (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Mark Zuckerberg, John Doerr and other exceptional investors). Previously, he was a Senior Product Manager at Kabam (acquired by NetMarble and Fox for a combined $1bn+), where he worked on products through all lifecycles in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Beijing and helped grow one of the company’s products to become the third largest revenue generating product in the company portfolio. In a former life, he worked in Technology Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. He is also the author / co-author on 10+ gaming patents.

Dhaval has over 5+ years of product marketing experience and 10+ of engineering experience. He’s led the development and product teams in both marketing and AI at companies, including Honeywell Aerospace, LifeLock, and Wells Fargo. He’s also taught data science at UC Berkeley.

Allie helps to run and moderate the Product Manager HQ Community alongside other operating responsibilities that help to keep the lights on here at PMHQ. Allie has experience as a marketing strategist running and launching marketing campaigns for clients across various industries.

Fernando was a Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo in the Mobile organization. At Yahoo, he co-founded and co-led the Associate Product Manager program. He was also a member of Yahoo’s PM and Design hiring committee where he helped make final recommendations to CEO Marissa Mayer on every PM / Design offer. He also put together and led a team that launched Yahoo’s homepage app, which reached the #1 spot in the News category on both Android and iOS and sustained that ranking for ~6 months. He then joined the Yahoo Mail App team and shipped the biggest refresh of the app in years. It reached the #5 spot of alliOS free apps in 2015. Before Yahoo, he was a Product Manager at Google for 5 years where he had the opportunity to contribute to various features and launches of Web Search (google.com), Google Maps, Voice Search, Android and Google+ Local. He has interviewed over 300 prospective Product Managers in his career at Google & Yahoo and he is currently a Product Manager coach and consultant.

He is currently a Principal at 1955 Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in technologies from the developed world that can help solve the developing world’s greatest challenges in areas like energy, food, agriculture, health, education, and manufacturing. Previously, Benjamin was the Vice President of Product and Business Development for Yik Yak, a venture-backed startup building anonymous, hyperlocal communities for mobile devices which has raised over $70M in venture funding since its inception. As a member of the executive team, his responsibilities included driving the Series B fundraising (culminating in a $60M+ financing), guiding product roadmap / implementation, building and managing team of PMs, designers, and UX researchers supporting all product and systems development within company, and handling all partnership conversations and execution (including those with University of Florida, MTV, Comedy Central, and Bleacher Report).