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Otavio Lessa – Meet the Mentor

I’m Otavio M. Lessa, founder of Fandom Builder and a strategist with more than 25 years of experience across games, entertainment, content, community, and brand systems. I help creators, founders, and businesses turn audience attention into real belonging, then turn that belonging into stronger retention, trust, and more durable revenue.

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Marco Ferra – Meet the Mentor

I am a senior technology leader with more than 18 years of experience in driving digital transformation and continuous improvement across the media, biopharmaceutical, automotive, and aerospace sectors. Currently, I lead initiatives focused on strea…

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Dilyana Radulova – Meet the Mentor

I’m a UK based Solution Engineer working with Microsoft stack technologies (like Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot and enterprise automation). I help people turn messy, frustrating work into solutions that actually make their day easier—and I’m …

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Audrey Muller – Meet the Mentor

I specialize in career transitions that require more than a resume update: PMs moving into AI roles, technical PMs shifting into commercial work, and non-PMs breaking into product. The common thread is the same - you have more capability than your t…

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Boyan Angelov – Meet the Mentor

I am a management consultant and a fractional CTO, focusing on data and AI strategy, and bridging that difficult gap between sky-high expectation of the amazing technology we have, and the software and organisational complexity that we face in reality. Beyond consulting, I am also an author, with books so far on programming languages and strategy.

Boyan Angelov

March 9th, 2026

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Auws Al-Gaboury – Meet the Mentor

I’m Auws Al-Gaboury, a creative producer and founder of Hyper Film, a London-based studio that helps brands turn content into real business results. Over the past decade I’ve worked with startups and global brands, focusing on strategy, storytelling, and performance driven creative. I mentor founders and marketers on how to use content and branding to grow their businesses.

Auws Al-Gaboury

Auws Al-Gaboury

March 9th, 2026

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Taskin Karlar – Meet the Mentor

I’m a multi-time founder and CTO with a background in building and scaling deep tech ventures across AI, biotech, and aerospace. Over the past decade, I’ve led teams through complex product, infrastructure, and growth inflection points. I mentor founders and technical leaders making high-leverage decisions in architecture, product, and organisational design that compound early.

Taskin Karlar

March 2nd, 2026

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Ahmed Elbagoury – Meet the Mentor

I am a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building scalable, safe, and efficient AI systems, ranging from LLM safety frameworks to multimodal document understanding. Beyond my engineering work, I am a passionate educator, dedicated to helping the next generation of engineers bridge the gap between theoretical ML and production-grade software.

Ahmed Elbagoury

Ahmed Elbagoury

March 2nd, 2026

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Ruchi Lohani – Meet the Mentor

I'm a Senior Engineering Leader, passionate about Large-scale systems and the evolving AI Privacy & security landscape. I’ve grown into a Technical leader, drove multiple industry-shaping efforts and assumed various roles including managing managers. Outside of work, I’m deeply connected to ancient Indian wisdom and find those teachings very relevant to how I lead and navigate work challenges.

Ruchi Lohani

March 2nd, 2026

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Lizabeth murphy – Meet the Mentor

I’m Lizabeth Murphy, a People & Organizational Development leader with 15+ years of experience helping startups scale with strong culture and sustainable systems. As a former CEO, COO, and Chief People Officer, I help founders build high-performing companies without burnout. I’ve supported 40+ startups from pre-revenue to Series A.

Lizabeth murphy

Lizabeth murphy

February 17th, 2026

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David Miller – Meet the Mentor

I’m a product leader and mentor who helps Product Managers accelerate their careers and helps non-PMs succeed inside the product function. I build product, process, and people—translating complex organizations into practical operating systems that help ambitious professionals perform at a higher level. My focus is on real-world execution inside large, fast-moving tech environments.

David Miller

February 17th, 2026

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Div Manickam – Meet the Mentor

I am a product marketing leader with 15 years in B2B SaaS. I focus on empowering leaders to build mindful, high-trust teams while maintaining work-life harmony. Through sharing my own "good, bad, and ugly" experiences, I strive to help the next generation of leaders navigate their careers with authenticity and purpose.

Div Manickam

February 9th, 2026

From the Community: Mentor Contributions

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Adam Oskwarek – Meet the Mentor

I'm a seasoned operator with 20 years of experience across startups, corporates, and venture — spanning Founder, COO, CPO, & growth leadership roles. I thrive in fast-paced environments where clarity, structure, and execution are critical and I'm calm, unflappable and focused under pressure. I've worked in large corporations & startups/scale-ups in edtech, climatetech, fintech, SaaS and more.

Adam Oskwarek

November 14th, 2025

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Linda Scotti – Meet the Mentor

I’m Linda Scotti, an Executive & Career Coach with 23 years in tech (including 12 at Google and 5 at Indeed) and 9 years in corporate coaching. Certified in Positive Intelligence, I help leaders navigate transformation, scaling, and high-pressure challenges—building high-performing teams, mastering emotional intelligence, and achieving measurable results through confident, authentic leadership.

Linda Scotti

October 3rd, 2025

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Harold Park – Meet the Mentor

Full-stack engineer specializing in modern front-end web technologies, with a focus on empathy-driven team collaboration and servant leadership

Harold Park

September 26th, 2025

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Ludwig Wullner – Meet the Mentor

I’m Ludwig, a Senior Manager at McDonald’s Global Technology. I lead backend and frontend deployment operations and the Deployment Reliability Engineering function, focusing on making large-scale releases predictable, secure and repeatable across global markets. I blend technical fluency with process design and people leadership to help engineering teams move faster with less operational risk.

Ludwig Wullner

September 12th, 2025

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Living Mindfully in a High‑Growth World: A Fifth‑Decade Reset

In this post I share my fifth‑decade reset, practical steps and reflections on mindful, grounded leadership, that can help founders and product leaders balance ambition with longevity and presence.

Soodeh Farokhi

September 12th, 2025

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Rishabh Misra – Meet the Mentor

I’m a Staff ML Engineer with a decade of experience across applied research, engineering leadership, and knowledge sharing. I have built AI-powered personalization systems at startups, Twitter, and Amazon, and co-authored ML research on novel user-facing problems, applying it to improve real-world experiences. I share learnings through writing, speaking, and mentorship.

Rishabh Misra

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Demian Gutierrez – Meet the Mentor

I have 20+ years of experience in software development roles. I founded two companies serving government and building enterprise systems. As a professor, I modernized software engineering/computer science curriculum by integrating theory with hands-on learning. At Amazon/AWS as a Principal Engineer, I provided technical leadership for complex, critical services, and mentoring for 50 people org.

Demian Gutierrez

Demian Gutierrez

March 5th, 2024

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Catalin Rosu – Meet the Mentor

I am a Software Development Lead with a strong background in software engineering, specialising in architecting and delivering robust software applications, as well as leading and building high-performing teams. With nearly two decades in coding, my transition to leadership was driven by a passion for creating impactful solutions the right way with the right team.

Catalin Rosu

December 4th, 2023

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Larry Jacobson – Meet the Mentor

15+ years experience managing cross-functional technology teams, delivering impact while fostering innovation and a growth-oriented culture. I've worked at Amazon, Snap, and several midsize companies and startups. Currently I am an independent career and leadership coach, and have a few entrepreneurial efforts in the works.

Larry Jacobson

August 16th, 2023

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