Melissa Perri is a product management educator, author, speaker, and consultant. She believes the key to creating great products is growing great product leaders.
Committed to that mission, she created the online school Product Institute, where she has shared her scientific approach to Product Management with over 3,500 students. Seeing an opportunity to help executives understand the value of Product Management, she wrote the book Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value. In 2014, she wrote the Product Management curriculum for General Assembly's part-time Product Management course, being used worldwide today. In 2019, she started a program to train the next generation of Chief Product Officers with Insight Partners and their 150 portfolio companies. Also, Melissa was recently appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach Product Management in the MBA program.
As the CEO of Produx Labs, Melissa runs a team of consultants who work with executives worldwide to set up their product organizations, advise on product strategy, and train leaders and team members. Their clients include Capital One, Lloyds Bank of England, Spotify, Liberty Mutual, Bynder, AthenaHealth, the Australian Defence Department, and Chewy. Prior to her current position, Melissa was a Product Manager and UX Designer at Capital IQ, Barclays Capital, OpenSky, and Conductor.
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value