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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

The Most Innovative People in Product
FINALIST

Rodger Desai

CEO
Prove

FINALIST

Christina Forney

VP of Product
Sourcegraph

FINALIST

SC Moatti

Founder
Products That Count

FINALIST

Angela Kim

Chief Product Officer
Chief

FINALIST

Chris Miller

VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot

Best Product Leader, Large Company

WINNER

Sravanthi Kadali

Group Product Manager, Rider App
Lyft

Best Product Leader, Large Company
FINALIST

Arin Bhowmick

Chief Design Officer
SAP

FINALIST

Natalia Baryshnikova

Head of Product, Confluence Experience
Atlassian

FINALIST

Kruti Patel Goyal

Chief Product Officer
Etsy

FINALIST

Angela Kim

Chief Product Officer
Chief

FINALIST

Chris Miller

VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot

Best Product Leader, Midsize Company

WINNER

Vijaysai Patnaik

Head of Product
Applied Intuition

Best Product Leader, Midsize Company
FINALIST

Melissa Chenok

Product Leader
Lattice

FINALIST

Sarim Siddiqui

Chief Product Officer
Quit Genius

FINALIST

Tim Flem

SVP, Product, UX & Learning Science
Macmillan Learning

FINALIST

Cory Smith

Senior Product Director
Paradox

FINALIST

Chris Miller

VP of Product, Growth & Fintech
HubSpot

Best Product Leader, Small Company

WINNER

Tulsi Dharmarajan

Former Head of Product
Wheel

Best Product Leader, Small Company
FINALIST

Martin Felcman

VP of Product
Deepnote

FINALIST

Angela Sutherland

CEO & Co-Founder
Yumi

FINALIST

Quinnie Chen

Product Manager
Envato

FINALIST

Kausambi Manjita

Co-Founder
Mason

Most Promising Up-and-Comer

WINNER

Zen Liu

Senior Product Manager
LingoAce

Most Promising Up-and-Comer
FINALIST

Jeannine Fischer

Senior Product Manager
Avail Car Sharing (Allstate)

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

Best Digital-Native Product Leader
FINALIST

Nancy Wang

GM, AWS Data Protection and Governance
Amazon Web Service

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

Karen Ng

VP of Product & Data
Common Room

Best Digital Transformation Product Leader
FINALIST

Jessica Daley

Global Director of B2B2C
BEES at AB InBev

FINALIST

Ina Herlihy

Group Product Manager
Walmart

FINALIST

Will Everitt

Director, Product Solutions
Seven West Media

FINALIST

Utkarsh Arora

Head of Subscriber Engagement & Retention
The Economic Times

Best Product Design Leader

WINNER

Filip Stollár

Head of Design
Deepnote

 Best Product Design Leader
FINALIST

Theresa Schaefer

EVP, Product & Design
Olo

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

Best Product Influencer
FINALIST

Clement Kao

Founder
Product Teacher

FINALIST

Shravan Tickoo

Principal Product Manager
BYJUs

FINALIST

Teresa Torres

Product Discovery Coach
Product Talk

FINALIST

Sugandha

Principal Product Manager
Eightfold

Best Product Leader, Small Company

WINNER

Christina Yida Hu

Head of Product
ZOE

Best Product Leader, Small Company
FINALIST

Adrianna Tan

Director of Product Management
City & County of San Francisco

FINALIST

Stacy Smedley

Executive Director
Building Transparency

FINALIST

Mohit Gupta

VP – Governance
Image Impact International

Thank you to our judges

AMPLITUDE
AMPLITUDE

Justin Bauer

Chief Product Officer

Nir And Far
Nir And Far

Nir Eyal

Author, Consultant, and Public Speaker

G2 | Sara Rossio
G2

Sara Rossio

Chief Product Officer

VentureBeat
VENTUREBEAT

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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