I’m Nina — an experienced Product Manager dedicated to delivering mission-focused products to my users. I’m currently a PM at an early-stage stealth startup where I serve a variety of users across a few products — and I love what I do! I have direct experience building mobile, web and CMS products from discovery to launch across both B2B and B2C markets. When I first entered the field of product management, I didn’t have much guidance on product outside my organization. I’ve since prioritized time beyond my nine-to-five to discover best practices in product research, design and development. In addition to my work as a PM, I also write about product methodology and maintain a book review blog. I’m eager to connect with others early in their journey and offer tips and tricks useful for launching a career in product. Let’s chat!

Product Manager for a french software company in London, I’m responsible for an AI tool for auditors. I graduated from the Univeristy of Notre Dame in 2018 and started working for PwC as a Junior Product Manager that summer. My favorite part of the my role is the different skills that I need to incorporate in my day to day life. I am new to my role and am looking for mentorship.

Rosa Lina Swaby is a Data & Analytics PM at Microsoft for the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team. She recently joined Microsoft and before that she was working as a front-end engineer at American Express on the Customer HomePage team for around 2 years. She is currently based in NYC and is a 2018 NYU Computer Science Graduate. When she is not working, she loves to cook and find new rom-coms to watch.

My early professional experience was at Goldman Sachs in Operations and at Bridgewater Associates in HR. From there, I was trained as a coach at NYU and became a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. After this, I worked in HR Research at Aon Hewitt and attained my Technology MBA at NYU Stern. Throughout my career, I have helped hundreds of professionals with career exploration and for the past ~2 years I’ve been building my company, WOKEN, which is an online career exploration platform to coach professionals through the process of figuring out their ideal job and career path. I am also a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Binghamton University and a Career Coach through the Flatiron School/WeWork. In this call in particular, I’d be happy to send you a career coaching prep video which outlines our career exploration process and we can discuss how I can be helpful to you!

Highly strategic and impact-driven data analyst with a graduate degree in business analytics and years of experience in analytics, database technologies and business intelligence; currently enhancing my skill set and investing my time in giving back to the community.

• Product Management Leader @ HUGE
• Creator @ Products by Women & Full Ritual
• Forbes Contributor
• Mentor, Board Member Startup Advisor and Occasional Investor

Currently a Senior UX Researcher at Etsy, where I help our native app teams ground their decision-making in user insights. Before Etsy, I was a UX Researcher at Morgan Stanley and Meetup. I even spent a year as a Product Manager, which helped me understand how user researchers can most effectively partner with PMs. When I was first trying to break into the UX industry, I did not have many mentors or peers to ask for advice. I am now eager to help promising researchers and designers succeed in this field, from finding that First Job to thriving in your role. Outside of work, I spend my time taking boxing classes, cooking subpar meals, and consuming content on the Internet. In my past life, I was a hip hop and contemporary dancer, as well as an avid amateur artist.

Juan Carlos has several years of asset, inventory, and project management experience, including development of RFPs and analysis of bidder response. He has led medium and large scale asset disposal and inventory projects and been involved in large scale building construction and renovation projects. He is fluent in Spanish, and also speaks basic French and Japanese. Juan Carlos has completed specific procedures as well as developed tailored scheduled reports to help track budget flows and inventory delivery dates and helped streamline invoicing processes. His software proficiency includes Oracle Primavera 6, Oracle Discoverer, Bluebeam Revu, WebCheckout, Sciquest, MS Office Suite (including MS Project), and has used ProCore, E-builder, GovDeals, Deltek GovWin, Google Office Suite, CorelDRAW, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Miro, Mural, Trello, Slack, Budget4cast, and ArcGIS Survey 123.

Eleanor Haglund is the Founder and CEO of Aspire360, the network for startup CEOs.To date, she’s built a network of serial entrepreneur coaches that have raised more than half a billion dollars, coached CEOs through their pivots, building a sales team, and through their own multi-million dollar fundraising rounds.

Her entrepreneurial journey started when she was selected to be an inaugural member of the Innovation Scholars program at Carnegie Mellon. Before her senior year, she had started her first company, e. e. books. She worked with NYTimes Bestselling Authors and won the McGinnis Competition, the CMU Venture Challenge, and Hack-a- Startup. Through her next startup, Halo Mountain, she was invited to participate in two accelerator programs (Health Wildcatters and eLab NYC) and raised funds for the preclinical development of an Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic.

Alice is a strong community builder and connector who brings people and stakeholders together into partnerships. She is skilled in program execution and bridges the gap between startup communities in the United States and Asian countries.

Alice is an experienced program manager who ran 50+ international programs with 70+ staff across 15 countries in one year. When COVID-19 started, Alice successfully facilitated virtual accelerator programs and demo days with sponsors. She also managed 100+ high-profile tech and industry mentors. Additionally, her business development skills connect her with key players in the startup communities. Today, Alice focuses on minority, female entrepreneurs, and venture building topics.

Please feel free to connect with me. I’m happy to discuss with you on topics below:

• Startup Ecosystem Community: accelerator, mentor, startup resources, pitch coaching, Asia market.
• Business Development & Partnership
• Startup founder HR service: Recruitment, Payroll, and other HR related
• Optimize Operation Management: cross-functional workflow structure and improvement, setup company guidelines