GOVERNANCE
Advisory Board
The Founding Board Members

Ken Sandy
Board Chairperson
Author, The Influential Product Manager
Ex VP Product, Masterclass and Lynda.com
Industry Fellow and Lecturer, UC Berkley
Author, The Influential Product Manger
Ken Sandy is a 20+ years veteran in Technology Product Management.
He pioneered and teaches the first Product Management course offered in the Engineering school at UC Berkeley, which has over 400 PM alumni practising in the industry.
Throughout his career, Ken consistently defined, launched and managed award-winning, innovative Web and mobile products loved by customers and used by millions of users across 60+ countries.
Previously, Ken served as VP of Product Management at leading online education companies, MasterClass and lynda.com (Linkedin Learning), and is currently an executive consultant and advisor for startup and scale-up companies in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
He’s recently released The Influential Product Manager – How to Lead and Launch Successful Technology Products, a highly practical and approachable guide to becoming more effective and navigating the challenging collaborative aspects of the product manager’s role.

Adrienne Tan
Co-Founder and CEO of Brainmates
20+ year Product Veteran
Co-Founded, Leading the Product
Founded, Australia’s first Product Management community
Adrienne has been in Product Management since 2000. During her initial Product career, she spent time designing and developing Internet Services for communities in Regional Australia.
She co-founded Brainmates in 2004 to professionalize Product Management in Australia. Under her stewardship, Brainmates has thrived and grown rapidly over the past few years.
She created Australia’s first Product Management community, launching free Meetups in 2007. In 2015, she designed a successful Product conference called Leading The Product, bringing 1000+ Product Managers together to learn from Australian and International thought leaders.
Adrienne specialises in helping organizations develop their own Product Management Framework and Playbook. Her consulting specialty includes Strategy & Roadmapping, conducting Customer Interviews, creating Personas, Customer Journeys and Story Mapping.
Adrienne has a Masters of Economics from the University of Sydney.

Steven Haines
Founder and CEO of Sequent Learning
Author, The Product Manager's Desk Reference and The Product Manager's Survival Guide
Visiting Lecturer, Technological University Dublin
Ex-Snr Director of Product Management, Oracle

Radhika Dutt
Co-founder of the Radical Product Thinking movement
Author, Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter
Lecturer, Northeastern University
Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore
Radhika Dutt is the author of the upcoming book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter.
She is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two in companies of which she founded. She is currently an Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s financial regulator and central bank.
She also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern’s D’Amore McKim School of Business and is an advisor to several startups. Dutt co-founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is a frequent speaker at business events and conferences worldwide. She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages, currently learning her tenth.