The CPO Club – Shape Product. Leverage AI. Deliver Value.

Dr. Maryam Ashoori is the Senior Director of Product Management and Head of Product for IBM’s watsonx.ai, where she spearheads the product strategy and delivery of IBM’s watsonx Foundation Models.

Cem Kansu is Chief Product Officer at Duolingo. Previously, he led Duolingo’s monetization efforts and their subscription products (Super Duolingo and Duolingo Max). He helped build Duolingo’s freemium business model, growing revenue from $0 to $1B a year.

Margaret-Ann leads Product & Design at Statsig, a unified analytics platform recently acquired by OpenAI. Previously Head of Product at Found and a product leader at Uber and Facebook, she brings deep expertise in scaling data-driven SaaS products.

Andrea Saez is the Head of Product Marketing at Turtl. With over 10 years of experience in product marketing, communication, and growth, Andrea helps companies achieve product momentum by applying product-thinking to scaling strategies. She is the co-author of “The Product Momentum Gap.”

Jean Castanon serves as Vice President of Product Development at American Express, where he leads cross-functional teams responsible for U.S. digital acquisition experiences and the company’s flagship Member Get Member referral program.

Drew is a product leader, advisor, and educator focused on pre-seed to seed product strategy, streamlining early teams, and optimizing for product/market fit. Having founded his first tech startup in 1997, Drew holds nearly 30 years of expertise in executive product leadership.

After a career of learning and growing as a PM – where he rose to VP of Product at a Unicorn company, Aakash now teaches others the craft that he honed over 14 years. He is the author of 2 newsletter deep dives and 2 podcast episodes a week on how to succeed as a PM, product leader, or aspiring PM.

Debbie McMahon is the VP Product at loveholidays. Having formerly served as interim CPO at The Financial Times, she is an outcome-focused senior leader with a passion for delivering scalable, user-centered products and transforming services. Debbie is known for empowering teams, solving complex problems, and aligning stakeholders—up to Board level—to deliver impactful results.

As Zoom’s Chief Product Officer, Smita is responsible for leading Zoom’s product management. She is an industry veteran with 20+ years of product management experience across Google and Microsoft. Her product experience spans leading delivery of television over IP networks at Microsoft, leading and scaling Google Meet, and more recently managing real-time communications platform and products at Microsoft Teams.