Melissa Perri is a strategic advisor, author, and board member that works with leaders at Fortune 500 companies and SAAS scale ups to enable growth through building impactful product strategies and organizations. In 2018 she wrote the industry-acclaimed book "Escaping the Build Trap". Currently, Melissa is the CEO and founder of Produx Labs, which offers e-learning for product people through Product Institute and CPO Accelerator. She is as a board member of Meister, a board advisor for Labster and Dragonboat, and a former board member of Forsta (acquired by Press Ganey in 2022). In 2019, Melissa was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach Product Management in the MBA program. She has consulted with dozens of companies to transform their product organizations, including Insight Partners, Capital One, Vanguard, Walmart/Sam's Club. In her free time, you can find her trying to finish her house renovations before something else breaks. With over a decade of product leadership experience, product consultant Denise Tilles supports companies like Bloomberg, Sam's Club, ATB Financial, and DaVita to enable meaningful outcomes for customers and the business through targeted support in product operations, product strategy, org design, and coaching. With Melissa Perri's product consultancy Produx Labs, Denise worked with Fortune 50 software-enabled enterprises to high-growth SaaS scaleups to implement and scale their Product Operations functions. On the operating side, she's built and led product and UX teams at Cision, Conde Nast, and Understood. Denise lives in Brooklyn with her husband and loud Dachsund, Georgie.