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
Rodger Desai
CEO
Prove
Christina Forney
VP of Product
Sourcegraph
SC Moatti
Founder
Products That Count
Angela Kim
Chief Product Officer
Chief
Chris Miller
VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot
Best Product Leader, Large Company
WINNER
Sravanthi Kadali
Group Product Manager, Rider App
Lyft
Arin Bhowmick
Chief Design Officer
SAP
Natalia Baryshnikova
Head of Product, Confluence Experience
Atlassian
Kruti Patel Goyal
Chief Product Officer
Etsy
Angela Kim
Chief Product Officer
Chief
Chris Miller
VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot
Best Product Leader, Midsize Company
WINNER
Vijaysai Patnaik
Head of Product
Applied Intuition
Melissa Chenok
Product Leader
Lattice
Sarim Siddiqui
Chief Product Officer
Quit Genius
Tim Flem
SVP, Product, UX & Learning Science
Macmillan Learning
Cory Smith
Senior Product Director
Paradox
Chris Miller
VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot
Martin Felcman
VP of Product
Deepnote
Angela Sutherland
CEO & Co-Founder
Yumi
Quinnie Chen
Product Manager
Envato
Kausambi Manjita
Co-Founder
Mason
Jeannine Fischer
Senior Product Manager
Avail Car Sharing (Allstate)
Diane Huang
Senior Product Manager
Canva
Diane Wong
Group Product Manager
Crunchbase
Nancy Wang
GM, AWS Data Protection and Governance
Amazon Web Service
Adam Somlai-Fischer
Co-Founder
Prezi
Nitish Kishore Khadke
Senior Product Manager, Web Security
Palo Alto Networks
Jessica Daley
Global Director of B2B2C
BEES at AB InBev
Ina Herlihy
Group Product Manager
Walmart
Will Everitt
Director, Product Solutions
Seven West Media
Utkarsh Arora
Head of Subscriber Engagement & Retention
The Economic Times
Theresa Schaefer
EVP, Product & Design
Olo
Jessica Faccin
Product Design Lead
Canva
Amanda Rosenburg
Head of Research, Google Classroom
Google
Clement Kao
Founder
Product Teacher
Shravan Tickoo
Principal Product Manager
BYJUs
Teresa Torres
Product Discovery Coach
Product Talk
Sugandha
Principal Product Manager
Eightfold
Adrianna Tan
Director of Product Management
City & County of San Francisco
Stacy Smedley
Executive Director
Building Transparency
Mohit Gupta
VP – Governance
Image Impact International
Thank you to our judges
Justin Bauer
Chief Product Officer
Nir Eyal
Author, Consultant, and Public Speaker
Sara Rossio
Chief Product Officer
Ben Ilfeld
Former Head of Product
About Product 50
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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