Ascending to CPO: The Path to Product Leadership

Wes Kao is an executive coach, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes at newsletter.weskao.com. She teaches a bestselling course on executive communication and influence, and coaches tech leaders at companies like Amazon, 1Password, Amplitude, DoorDash, Google, etc. Her writing via newsletter, Twitter, and LinkedIn reaches 300,000+ readers each week.

Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of the Skip CPO community. He's a serial entrepreneur and product leader who co-founded three startups (serving as CEO for two that were acquired by IBM and Google), before transitioning to product management. Led the launch of Google Hangouts and Google Photos, served as CPO at Credit Karma for four years helping it reach one-third of Americans, and spent four years as VP at Facebook (Meta) leading News Feed, Groups, Video, and Stories—products used by billions.

Mayur Kamat is the chief product officer at N26—a $9 billion neobank serving over 7 million customers in 25 countries—where he leads product, design, data, and research. Prior to N26, Mayur was Head of Product at Binance, growing the crypto exchange to a peak $400 billion valuation. Earlier in his career, he built and scaled products at Google (Gmail Mobile, Hangouts), Microsoft, and travel unicorn Agoda.

Christine Zdelar is a Director of Product at Intercom and Fin.ai, the world's #1 AI Agent for customer service. She has 13 years of product experience across financial services, SaaS, and B2G. Christine is particularly interested in how AI is transforming the way we build and market products—and the new questions it raises for teams, customers, and businesses alike.