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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