The Influential Product Manager at UC Berkeley
Ken Sandy has led technology product management teams for over 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is an industry fellow and lecturer at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he pioneered and teaches the first product management course offered in the Engineering school; which has over 600 PM alumni practicing in the industry.
Previously, Ken served as VP of Product Management at leading online education companies, MasterClass and lynda.com (Linkedin Learning), and is currently an executive consultant and advisor for startup and scale-up companies in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Prior, he was an executive at companies developing content and advertising platforms for independent publishers and startups creating mobile messaging and social networking solutions. He also led business units based in the United States, India, and China where he consistently defined, launched and managed award-winning web and mobile products loved by customers and used by millions of users across 60+ countries.
He’s recently released “The Influential Product Manager – How to Lead and Launch Successful Technology Products” a highly practical and approachable guide to becoming more effective and navigating the challenging collaborative aspects of the product manager’s role. His work draws on leading teams at fast-growth, early-stage companies as well as at larger companies attempting digital transformation amidst industry disruption.
In his early career, Ken was a consultant at a leading management consulting firm, McKinsey & Co. He is an alum of Melbourne University, Australia, where he received his Bachelors in Engineering and Bachelors in Computer Science.
