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To contact us, please send mail to: onproductmanagement@gmail.com

Saeed Khan

I’m what you might call a career Product Manager, having spent almost 14 years doing it formally and a number of years before that doing it informally. I’ve worked in startups and public companies, both in Toronto and Silicon Valley, in roles ranging from individual contributor to VP Product Management.

I write a lot, on this blog, as well as for Pragmatic Marketing’s website. In 2008, I was also a contributor to a book called Software Product Management, Issues and Perspectives. It’s not easy to find, but the ISBN is: 978-81-314-1589-4

I’ve also spoken widely on the topic of Product Management. I was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Software Marketing Perspectives conference in Santa Clara California. I’ve spoken at ProductCamps in New York and Boston, and locally, I’m one of the coordinators of ProductCamp Toronto, where I’ve led sessions at each of the events. On twitter I’m @saeedwkhan.

Alan Armstrong , Founder, Managing Partner, Eigenworks Inc.

After three exits from tech startups (here’s my favorite) and 5 years at a public tech company, I struck my own practice to help companies achieve breakthroughs across all areas of product positioning, sales, business development, and marketing. My primary widget is win/loss interviews and something I call “stuck deal facilitation”.

I can get competitive information, product, and company feedback from your buyers that will make your eyes water. And with stuck deals, I am able to get buyers on the phone who have gone dark, helping you figure out what went wrong, and in some cases move forward. In one case I helped a client close a $5M SaaS deal that had been considered dead in the water.

I think the reason this works is that buyers quickly figure out that I conduct the interviews personally and I’m not just a green MBA grad. I connect with your buyers as an executive, or a techie, or whatever suits the discussion.

With the kind of data I gather and the analysis I provide, your company can prioritize the real changes that you need to make to improve revenue. Fewer than 20% of companies perform win/loss analysis, so the opportunity to outpace your competitors is huge. Contact me to discuss. If you are serious, I sometimes offer one complimentary analysis to help sell the idea internally.

Jim Holland, Product Management Leadership

I’m a consummate product management guy. With over 20 years of experience, I’ve worked in large software and services companies, as well as startup and early stage ventures. I bring adult supervision to product teams and executives and my goal is to build product leadership and accelerate the discipline of product management. I contribute to the product management community via my blog PMTribes and speaking at various product camps. You can find me on Twitter at @jim_holland or on LinkedIn.

Prabhakar Gopalan, Founder & Managing Partner, Whole Mind Consulting

I help executives, product marketers and product managers bring fresh, innovative ideas to delivering products and services inside out. My approach is about combining strong analytical methods with creative, right brain interactions in team settings at every phase of product life cycle. If you are looking for change, leadership, innovation and radical culture change in the managerial morass of your organization, give me a call and I’ll help you reinvent your workplace. Follow my tweets (@PGopalan) or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Ethan Henry

I currently live in the usually sunny climes of the San Francisco Bay Area working for “one of the giants of Silicon Valley”. I’ve worked as a software developer, a technology trainer, and a product manager amongst other roles.

I represented this blog in the 2009 PMEC Battle of the Bloggers. We came in second. You can see my presentation here. Make sure you have the sound on when you watch the presentation.

Feel free to contact me at the above email. I’m open to speaking at your event, as long as you let me talk about something I’m quite familiar with.

Jennifer Doctor

I reside in Minneapolis MN and am Managing Director of HarborLight Partners, a consulting firm focused on helping companies identify, develop, launch and bring their products to market.

I’m passionate about many things, but most relevant to this community are Product Marketing and ProductCamps. Follow me on Twitter (@jidoctor) or contact me directly (jennifer dot doctor at gmail dot com).

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