CPO Summit Speaker Spotlight

Speaker: Laura Marino

Hello. I'm Laura Marino. I've been leading product teams in large and small organizations across a variety of industries for longer than I'm willing to confess. I'm currently the Chief Product Officer at TrueML a B2B2C Fintech company. I also lecture on product management at Stanford and other universities, and I'm a board member of leading Women in technology, a nonprofit, advancing women in leadership.

Jessica Sweeney and I will be having a fireside chat to discuss the unique challenges that CPOs and product leaders have in B2B and B2B2C companies, especially when they have large enterprise customers or when they are operating in highly regulated industries.

The CPO role is relatively new and it's different from any other product leadership role in that a CPO Is a C level executive and is expected to understand the entwined business, including financials, shareholder priorities and customer market perspective so that they can help drive decisions at that level so the top areas for CPOs to focus on should be understanding and helping define corporate strategy, aligning product strategy to corporate strategy and building and developing a strong product organization and a strong product culture to ensure successful execution.

Well, I'm really looking forward to exchanging war stories and learning from my peers. There's a lot that you cannot learn from reading books and articles, and it's just great to be able to hear directly those experiences from others.