Product Management Lessons
Building Creative, open minded, amicable, and goal oriented professional, with a background in product management, film & theatre productions, with international experience and outstanding communication skills. Highly skilled in successfully leading multidisciplinary teams across different locations and various levels of expertise. Huge fan of agile methodologies and certified scrum product owner. Experienced in bringing new products to market while continuously improving the core product along side. Strong focus on the customer, UX and the overall business value a new product and feature brings.
Building <div>Niharika is the Head of Product and Tech at ONE Championship where she leads the digital strategy for the company across its owned and operated assets. An ex-McKinsey consultant, she found her true calling in building and scaling businesses when she joined Treebo, a travel tech startup, in 2015. She has worked across strategy, revenue and product in her previous stints and is excited by the possibilities that technology and digital platforms bring to all three of those verticals. At ONE Championship, she is leading the charge on revolutionizing the way fans interact with the company and helping build the ONE Super App into the most loved sports App in the world.</div>
Building <div>Author of the remote leadership bible “<a href="https://valentinathoerner.com/from-a-distance-book-remote-leadership/">From a Distance</a>”, Valentina Thörner is the <strong>Empress of Product at </strong><a href="https://klausapp.com/"><strong>Klaus</strong></a>, a conversation review tool for support teams. A decade of working and leading fully distributed and hybrid remote/co-located teams means she knows first-hand the challenges and advantages of work from home/on the road/at a coworking space/when schools are closed. As a system thinker and process nerd, she uses this experience to create tools and frameworks that escape the "one-size-fits-all" remote myth, on all levels. </div>
Building <div>Full-Stack Polyglot Technology Product Architect and Entrepreneur <br><br>Vanipriya comes with vast technology experience and expertise of building ground-up applications through the past decade from early web, mobile, multi-channel, omni-channel, e-commerce, cloud to Al/ML/DS. <br><br>A natural servant leader, extremely passionate and driven, Vanipriya has led multiple teams across the product spectrum from product management, delivery, marketing and customer success. <br><br>A firm believer of understanding, empathising customer needs to be the core of true success, Vanipriya has herself founded and helped establish organisations in starting, buidling and sustaining high performance teams at a lot of start-ups where she had mentored various young technical and management professionals. <br><br>Prior to starting the Co-Creation team at Exotel, Vani started the India office and served as the Director of Product Management at FPS Innovation Labs. An alumnus of ISB and Anna University for Business and Technical Education respectively, she had previously founded the start-ups Zeekh, The Code Place and Proyojana, and had also been part of various assignments involving global clients like Born Commerce, Tetley, Bliss, Total Oil and Gas, Wiley, to name a few. <br><br>Away from work, Vanipriya regularly volunteers at start-up and product events in the city, and also performs classical Carnatic Music from time to time.</div><div><br></div>
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