Ken Sandy

http://www.influentialpm.com

Ken Sandy has led technology product management teams for over 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is an industry fellow and lecturer at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley where he pioneered and teaches the first product management course offered in the engineering school.

His work draws on leading teams at fast-growth, early-stage companies as well as at larger companies attempting digital transformation amidst industry disruption where he consistently defined, launched and managed award-winning web and mobile products loved by customers and used by millions of users across 60+ countries.

He has been Vice President of Product at premier online learning companies MasterClass and Lynda.com. Prior, he was an executive at companies developing content and advertising platforms for independent publishers, startups creating mobile messaging and social networking solutions, and led business units based in the US, India and China.

He is an executive consultant and active mentor and advisor for startup and scale-up companies in the US, Canada and Europe, and a regular speaker at leading product management conferences. In his early career Ken was a consultant at leading management consulting firm, McKinsey & Co. He is an alum of Melbourne University, where he received his Bachelors in Engineering and Bachelors in Computer Science (Honors).