Recognizing the leaders who are developing boundary-breaking, business-making products.

 

The most innovative people in product

In a world where digital products don’t just support the business, they are the business, the chief product officer (CPO) is becoming an indispensable company leader. That’s why Product 50 celebrates this new establishment of product influencers, innovators, and visionaries—the people pioneering digital-first products, transforming age-old companies into it-players, and advising the most successful teams through the product development process.

When the Product 50 was announced in February 2022, more than 800 nominations poured in. Our fearless judges were blown away by the number of diverse, impressive, and deserving nominees. But in the end, only 50 people—ten winners, 40 finalists—can be called the Product 50.

Introducing the Product 50

Most Admired Product Leader

WINNER

Jen Carter

Head of Technical Team, Google.org
Google

FINALIST

Rodger Desai

CEO
Prove

 

FINALIST

SC Moatti

Founder
Products That Count

 

FINALIST

Chris Miller

VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot

FINALIST

Christina Forney

VP of Product
Sourcegraph

 

FINALIST

Angela Kim

Chief Product Officer
Chief

Best Product Leader, Large Company

WINNER

Sravanthi Kadali

Group Product Manager, Rider App
Lyft

FINALIST

Madhurima Khandelwal

VP, Head of AI Labs
American Express

 

FINALIST

Natalia Baryshnikova

Head of Product, Confluence Experience
Atlassian

FINALIST

Arin Bhowmick

Chief Design Officer
SAP

 

FINALIST

Kruti Patel Goyal

Chief Product Officer
Etsy

Best Product Leader, Midsize Company

WINNER

Vijaysai Patnaik

Head of Product
Applied Intuition

FINALIST

Melissa Chenok

Product Leader
Lattice

 

FINALIST

Tim Flem

SVP, Product, UX & Learning Science
Macmillan Learning

FINALIST

Sarim Siddiqui

Chief Product Officer
Quit Genius

 

FINALIST

Cory Smith

Senior Product Director
Paradox

Best Product Leader, Small Company

WINNER

Tulsi Dharmarajan

Former Head of Product
Wheel

FINALIST

Martin  Felcman

VP of Product
Deepnote

 

FINALIST

Quinnie Chen

Product Manager
Envato

FINALIST

Angela Sutherland

CEO & Co-Founder
Yumi

 

FINALIST

Kausambi Manjita

Co-Founder
Mason

Most Promising Up-and-Comer

WINNER

Zen Liu

Senior Product Manager
LingoAce

FINALIST

Jeannine Fischer

Senior Product Manager
Avail Car Sharing (Allstate)

 

FINALIST

Debrup Ghosh

Senior Product Manager
Synopsys

FINALIST

Diane Huang

Senior Product Manager
Canva

 

FINALIST

Diane Wong

Group Product Manager
Crunchbase

Best Digital-Native Product Leader

WINNER

Karen Ng

VP of Product & Data
Common Room

FINALIST

Nancy Wang

GM, AWS Data Protection and Governance
Amazon Web Service

 

FINALIST

Anaid Chacón

Head of Product
Nuvocargo

FINALIST

Adam Somlai-Fischer

Co-Founder

Prezi

 

FINALIST

Nitish Kishore Khadke

Senior Product Manager, Web Security
Palo Alto Networks

Best Digital Transformation Product Leader

WINNER

Lisa Yokoyama

Head of Product, Amex Digital Labs
American Express

FINALIST

Jessica Daley

Global Director of B2B2C
BEES at AB InBev

 

FINALIST

Will Everitt

Director, Product Solutions
Seven West Media

FINALIST

Ina Herlihy

Group Product Manager
Walmart

 

FINALIST

Utkarsh Arora

Head of Subscriber Engagement & Retention
The Economic Times

Best Product Design Leader

WINNER

Filip Stollár

Head of Design
Deepnote

FINALIST

Theresa Schaefer

EVP, Product & Design
Olo

 

FINALIST

Gleb Kuznetsov

Chief Design Officer
Brain Technologies Inc.

FINALIST

Jessica Faccin

Product Design Lead
Canva

 

FINALIST

Amanda Rosenburg

Head of Research, Google Classroom
Google

Best Product Influencer

WINNER

Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia

CEO
Product School

FINALIST

Clement Kao

Founder
Product Teacher

 

FINALIST

Teresa Torres

Product Discovery Coach
Product Talk

FINALIST

Shravan Tickoo

Principal Product Manager
BYJUs

 

FINALIST

Sugandha

Principal Product Manager
Eightfold

Best Nonprofit Product Leader

WINNER

Christina Yida Hu

Head of Product
ZOE

FINALIST

Adrianna Tan

Director of Product Management
City & County of San Francisco

 

FINALIST

Mohit Gupta

VP – Governance
Image Impact International

FINALIST

Stacy Smedley

Executive Director
Building Transparency

Thank you to our judges

AMPLITUDE

Justin Bauer

Chief Product Officer

Nir And Far

Nir Eyal

Author, Consultant, and Public Speaker

G2

Sara Rossio

Chief Product Officer

VENTUREBEAT

Ben Ilfeld

Former Head of Product

About Product 50

Product 50 selection process

Product 50 nominations were open to the public from February 15 to March 11, 2022. More than 800 nominations were submitted.

Following the close of nominations, a panel of judges reviewed and scored the submissions. The judges included Justin Bauer, SVP of Product, Amplitude; Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer, G2; Ben Ilfeld, Head of Product, VentureBeat.

The submissions were scored on the following factors:

  • Innovation: Is this person impacting a product that is novel, cutting-edge or trailblazing?
  • Business impact: Is this person responsible for a product that has led to significant business growth?
  • Diversity: Does this nominee bring a unique background, perspective or way of working to the table that enables their teams to be more successful?
  • Influence: Was this person nominated by multiple people?

The judges then met to review the top-scoring nominations, and finalized the selection of ten winners and forty finalists across the ten categories.

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