Top 15 Fractional CPOs to Hire for Growth in 2026

Mauricio Monico is Catalant's Chief Technology and Product Officer and founder of M2Innovate, with two decades of product leadership across Wish, Nubank, Google, Meta, eBay, Microsoft, and global marketplaces.

His work spans marketplace turnarounds, AI-enabled products, growth platforms, and executive product leadership. Through M2Innovate, he also provides fractional CPO support covering strategy, roadmaps, hiring, operating cadence, and board narratives.

Harpal Singh is an interim and fractional Chief Product Officer who has led product for tech scaleups and held senior roles at intu, Selligent, Net-a-Porter, Yahoo, and other digital businesses.

Singh works across embedded interim leadership and fractional advisory engagements, tackling product strategy, business models, organizational design, customer experience, hiring, and growth. His experience spans sectors from ecommerce and martech to healthcare, fintech, and robotics.

Emma van Dijkum is a product leadership coach, advisor, and fractional CPO. Her 18 years in product includes executive roles at Multiverse, Funding Circle, Naked Wines, Octopus, and EF.

Van Dijkum works with scaling and transforming organizations through coaching, advisory work, and embedded fractional leadership. Her CPO engagements cover product strategy, team stabilization, stakeholder alignment, hiring, and reshaping the product function.

Sivan Kadosh is an independent fractional Chief Product Officer for B2B SaaS companies, drawing on 18+ years in product leadership across CPO, VP Product, CEO, and GM roles in SaaS and fintech.

Kadosh embeds with Series A and B companies to own strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, product rituals, and PM coaching. His approach links product decisions to commercial measures such as retention, activation, ARR, and customer value rather than treating the role as outside consulting.

Colin Roper is a product advisor, fractional CPO, and interim Head of Product with 15+ years in B2B SaaS, including work as Gusto's first product manager and VP Product roles at startups.

Roper advises startups and scale-ups on product-market fit, product strategy, and team development. His operating background includes leading payroll product at Gusto and serving as VP of Product at B2B companies, giving his fractional work a hands-on SaaS and fintech foundation.

Lindsey Jayne is a CPO Partner at Rational Partners and former Chief Product Officer of the Financial Times Group. She previously led product at Monzo and Yoco and global design at Farfetch.

Through Rational Partners, Jayne offers fractional CPO leadership informed by experience scaling digital products and teams. At the Financial Times, she led a 110-person product organization and helped grow paid audiences and advertising revenue. At Monzo, she oversaw product releases as its user base tripled.

Tyron Dizon is a Chief Product Officer, AI product builder, and SaaS founder who leads product for StoryPages and StoryFunnels and previously co-founded and led product at Techstars-backed SanityDesk.

Dizon pairs product leadership with hands-on prototyping across SaaS, AI, automation, and UX. His fractional CPO work for early-stage companies covers roadmaps, discovery, scope, customer conversations, and building early versions when working software can answer strategic questions faster.

Charlotte McGuire is a product executive and strategic advisor whose work spans product strategy, AI and data products, monetization, go-to-market planning, startup advisory, and regulated industries.

McGuire's advisory work through Blue Heron Insights has covered product-market fit, pricing, business models, investor messaging, roadmaps, and fractional CPO support. Her broader product career also includes AI product management and work across complex and regulated environments.

Tiago Valente founded RemoteCPO after 12+ years building and scaling digital products across apps, marketplaces, ecommerce, SaaS, and international teams in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Valente provides on-demand product and operations leadership for founders, agencies, and post-PMF companies. His work covers product strategy, MVP definition, product-market fit, audits, digital transformation, growth, and cross-functional delivery without requiring a full-time CPO hire.

Manish Barmecha is a fractional CPO and SaaS product leader whose executive experience spans JRNI, Klaviyo, WordStream, Demandware, and earlier global strategy consulting work at McKinsey.

He has scaled product organizations through growth and acquisition, launched AI capabilities, and helped SaaS businesses expand across products and markets. His work combines product strategy, analytics, customer focus, and operating discipline for companies that need experienced fractional leadership.

John Leonard founded RoadMapVenture, where he works as a fractional CPO and product advisor after three decades building SaaS, data, procurement, and emerging-technology product platforms.

His work spans PE-backed software, platform consolidation, post-acquisition integration, AI and data strategy, and zero-to-one launches. Leonard brings roadmap governance, product operations, and executive decision-making to companies navigating complex growth and change.

Chris Martiniak founded 10X Fractional after 20+ years in product leadership, with experience building AI, advertising, streaming, retail, and marketplace products at Amazon, Samsung, and Yahoo!.

Martiniak works across zero-to-one product creation, monetization, AI/ML, workflow automation, and growth strategy. His hands-on approach emphasizes customer value, rapid decisions, and operating mechanisms that help teams turn ambitious product bets into measurable business results.

Brian Root is a fractional CPO and founder of Rooted In Product, with product leadership experience spanning Amazon, Walmart, startups, and digital businesses in eCommerce, FinTech, and InsurTech.

Root has built and scaled cross-functional product and design teams, led zero-to-one initiatives, and established experimentation and UX research practices. His work blends customer insight, quantitative evidence, product strategy, and organizational design to help companies make better product decisions.

Adam Franchella is a product leader, founder, and advisor who has worked with more than 30 startups and enterprises while building software products from early ideas through launch and growth.

His fractional CPO practice covers customer discovery, MVP definition, product strategy, roadmapping, delivery, product-market fit, and product-led growth. That end-to-end experience gives founders hands-on product leadership while they validate, launch, and scale technology businesses.