1,859 Mentors
Tony George
Project Lead | Senior UI UX Designer | Startup at Servomate technologies
I help companies turn complex product and delivery challenges into measurable business outcomes, accelerating execution, improving customer experiences, and enabling teams to ship with confidence. Currently Managing delivery across 40+ concurrent programs with global stakeholders Driving AI & GenAI workflows to improve delivery speed by 20–30% Leading cross-functional teams across product, engineering, design, and creative Previously (Founder – Servomate Technologies) Built and launched 80+ Android applications for global markets Scaled products to 7.5M+ downloads, including a #1 ranked category app Generated revenue within 5 months and secured national media coverage Managed end-to-end delivery across 70+ client engagements How I Lead I operate across technical, creative, and business domains—working with engineers on architecture, collaborating with designers on user experience, and aligning stakeholders around business outcomes. I bridge disciplines to ensure strategy translates into execution and products ship successfully. Selected Impact → Managed 40+ concurrent SaaS and digital transformation programs across global clients → Reduced delivery cycle time by 20–30% using GenAI and agentic workflows → Improved lead quality by 2.7× through UX and funnel optimisation → Reduced onboarding friction by 35% across key product journeys → Delivered enterprise solutions across distributed international teams Core Skills Program Management • Product Strategy • Product Operatio
Leanne Waldal
Director of Research at HOVER Inc.
Research and analytics leader and expert with 20+ years of experience scaling and leading and maturing teams and practices at tech companies. I lead teams using mixed methods of research, with analytics, to inform strategic decisions. My leadership focuses on working cross-functionally, with local and global teams, to manage research and analytics as a collaborative team sport. Research and strategy leader with 20+ years experience managing teams and operations, programs and practices, learning and development, globally at tech companies: - Designing and planning customer centered and experience strategies - Connecting an organization's goals with individual teams and their work - Expanding relationships and collaborations to increase efficiencies Areas of expertise: team leadership and operations and growth, research operations, people management, business development, cross functional collaboration, customer centricity and maturity models, practice and program definition, collaboration, strategy and planning, design thinking, qualitative and quantitative research, UX metrics, user experience benchmarking, measuring value of design, data analytics, B2B, B2C, B2B2C Strengthsfinder Strengths: WOO, Analytical, Communication, Futuristic, Command
Selene Chew
Manager, Product Design, Flagship Growth at LinkedIn
I’m a Product Design Manager and Mentor. I’ve 7+ years of UX design experience and 2+ years of management experience working on Consumer and Enterprise products. Being part of the early team at various startups and within large companies, I have experience leading small & big design & engineering teams, building products from zero to product-market fit, participating in product strategy mapping and planning, and wearing multiple hats as Project Lead, UX researcher, Product Manager. I’m passionate about the topics of mindfulness, social good, and underserved communities. On the side, I lead a nonprofit young adult group organization and mentor young adults and career starters. I share job search tips and career advice on my LinkedIn feed, follow me if you’re interested.
Signs Madueke
Publisher at Prayer Publications
Highly creative Graphic Designer with strong passion for books with experience in communicating ideas and information through visuals concepts. Adept multi-tasker with the ability to bring simultaneous graphic design projects to completion with complete efficiency and accuracy. Demonstrates ability to work well independently or as a member of a professional publishing team. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS - Worked on book interiors for books published at Prayer Publications and ensured that manuscripts were properly formatted before I published them on Amazon. - Successfully designed book covers, which aided in the conversion of Amazon ads, with some of these books becoming Amazon Kindle bestsellers on top relevant categories. - Developed a well optimized website for a Christian author to showcase his books and provide links to purchase the Kindle and print editions. - Designed a landing page for free digital downloads and it captured over 2,000 active email subscribers in the space of one year. - Using Mailchimp, I designed and sent HTML email campaigns to subscribers at Prayer Publications, encouraging them to purchase books and post reviews, which aided in the growth of newly released titles. Looking to establish a long-term career in Graphic Design, Book publishing and Design that will utilize related experience, education, and skills.
Vanessa Bruce
VP of Social Impact, Women-Owned at Juniper by IMC
Passionate about empowering women in UX and product design. Up for chatting on Slack or over an ice cream at FoMu. Vanessa’s passionate about commerce as a force for good and access to entrepreneurship, a vision she's helmed at Dough—driving dollars to 1,000+ women-owned businesses. Her work has been featured in Fortune, Glossy, and Business Insider as well as recognized by the Stevie Awards, Adobe, and W3 – just to name a few. Before Dough, Vanessa was a co-founder and partner at Six Things—an award-winning, woman-owned plus operated, creative agency. She has worked with 50+ clients including JetBlue, Disney, and Target. Vanessa believes in building a more inclusive, compassionate, and equitable community. She volunteers as a mentor at Hack.Diversity and advises early stage DTC founders. She’s a first generation college graduate, an alumni of Simmons University, a women's college in the heart of Boston, where she studied Communications.
Aprajit Kar
Director Of Product Design at foodpanda
I've been an engineer turned designer and practicing since a decade now. Started as a visual designer and learnt the way forward into UX, product design and design management lately. Would love to learn more about the best practices followed by other designers and share my learnings in the process.
Craig Cailler
Product Design Manager at Privafy · Full-time
A passionate user experience design leader with over twenty years of experience, providing strategic direction across a broad range of products and industries while mentoring and empowering teams to deliver thoughtful, innovative and engaging user-centered design solutions to complex problems.
Koji Pereira
Chief Design Officer at Neon
I am a Product Design Manager, with 20 years of experience in the Design field. I moved to management about 3 years ago, now I am looking to connect with other leaders, especially directors. Previously he was at Lyft where he was a Head of Design for Lyft Business, leading a suite of products for organizations to get rides for their people. He launched Lyft Pass a self-service product that allows companies to create ride programs. At Google, he led Design for Files by Google from 0 to 1/2 billion MAU and launched many products including Camera Go, Android TV Data Saver, and Google Spaces. He also taught Design around the world in schools like Harbour. Space in Spain and PUC Minas in Brazil and led a startup in Brazil. Koji also hosts the Cells and Pixels Podcast with Product and Design leaders. • Elevated designers to strategic thinkers, influencing product direction and scope • Led consumer-facing products and B2B products from 0 to billions, while scaling up the UX team • Build several Visions and North Stars to guide, build momentum and inspire teams • Reinforced connections between teams that tend to work in Silos, building a unified voice and shared goals • Strong user-centric approach, focusing on understanding the diversity of users to build inclusive products through design thinking • Established processes, training, systems, and design rituals across teams to increase quality, facilitate communication, including users, and foster collaboration with xFN partners and leaders • Build safe, inclusive, diverse, and equitable cultures, allowing radical candor and deep connection. Leading to high-performance teams and increasing retention
Steven Villarino
Design at Roku Inc
I design innovative user interfaces and meaningful interactions. Experience with designing mobile applications and on-brand communications. Passion for working closely with engineers and support teams to get the experience just right. Able to communicate with product people and creative teams to execute roadmap product missions.
Pietro Occiuzzi
Diretor de Produto & Co-Founder at Agenda Edu
O Pietro Occiuzzi é empreendedor do setor da economia criativa, Co-founder e Diretor de design na Startup Agenda Edu, recebendo prêmios como Startup do ano 2019, Latin Design American 2020, Brasil Design Awards 2019, selecionado para a Bienal de design 2019. Formado em Design com MBA em Gestão Estra
Paul Genberg
Partner, Director Strategic Design at BCG Digital Ventures
As a strategic designer I guide senior corporate executives and multi-disciplinary teams through the divergent and convergent innovation process to bring together the best of design, strategy, and analysis to help organizations invent and launch disruptive businesses while transforming their innovation culture. I lead human-centered needs discovery and definition, as well as concept, prototype design and development, and user specifications documentation delivery. I have launched 4 new businesses in the last 2 years ranging from precision growing technology to human-augmented financial advice. As a strategic designer I guide senior corporate executives and multi-disciplinary teams through the divergent and convergent innovation process to bring together the best of design, strategy, and analysis to help organizations invent and launch disruptive businesses while transforming their innovation culture. I lead human-centered needs discovery and definition, as well as concept, prototype design and development, and user specifications documentation delivery. I have launched 4 new businesses in the last 2 years ranging from precision growing technology to human-augmented financial advice. I am a results-driven creative problem solver with an analytical bend and a well-developed creative vision. I have a strong track record in launching innovative products and businesses. I thrive in collaborative team environments and I have extensive experience working in NA, EMEA, and APAC. StrengthsFinder Top 5 Themes: Communication, Competition, Activator, Relator, Adaptability
Andy Stonehouse
Creative Director at S2 design & advertising Ltd
I've worked as a designer for 30+ years. Freelance, In-house, In-agency and running my own firm. Worked in both the charity & commercial worlds. I specialize in brand and print I'm not interested in fancy design awards - I'm all about creating work that works & delivers what my clients need.
Camila Caligari
Design Manager at QuintoAndar
I believe in the knowledge’s capacity to build a fairer world when it is returned to society in the shape of better services and practices. Being able to see my efforts and my experiences shared through human-centered projects of positive impact is what moves my professional choices.
Gabriela Machado da Silva
Service Designer at Essense
Hi, I'm Gabi! I work with Human-centered design since 2018, and I have a master's in Customer Experience and Innovation from IE Business School, Madrid. During my working hours, I'm currently a Global Service Designer @ FARFETCH, doing what's never been done for the love of fashion. In my free time: - I study a lot about circular SD - I write about SD (in Portuguese) @ Umani Design - I'm passionate about ceramics! I believe customer-centricity to be the smartest way a business can operate. User research enables assertive decision-making, and service design approaches to challenges with an E2E perspective, leveraging UXR insights to unlock hidden opportunities.
J F Grossen
Founder, Head of Emerging Digital Experiences at Journey
I'm a seasoned creative leader in design with deep experience in digital product development. I’ve led creative teams in both global design consultancies and in-house in the US, UK and European markets. I’ve driven new business, developed partnerships and inspired cross-functional teams to deliver on creative solutions for large-scale projects in consumer and B2B software, spaces and services. I've launched products in the market for top brands - GE, AT&T, Shell, IKEA, VW and dozens of others across industries. Most recently I’ve worked as VP of Design at HERE Technologies in Berlin and Global Executive Creative Director on the IKEA account for frog design. For the past 20+ years, I’ve been a hands-on contributor to the vision, delivery and launch of products and services in mobility, finance, energy, commerce and healthcare. I've taken pride in building the teams, tools and workflows to enable designers, developers and data scientists to create great experiences. I have a strong interest in technologies which enhance the everyday for the built environment focusing on ways of working, learning and retailing experiences. I’m passionate about creating the relationships which inspire and grow individuals into leaders and ideas into reality.
Meghan Borsic
Director Of Product Design, Ads Products at Meta
I love the art and craft of design and building relationships with talented leaders across all disciplines. Together we produce exciting and disruptive products. Right now, I help take care of the user experience and design efforts at Facebook. Working with an incredible team of talented leaders we are bringing state-of-the-art design to the experience of Facebook’s Ads products and services. Watch this space for more information soon. I'm a results-focused user experience and tech leader, innovation enabler, and idea accelerator. Data-driven decision-maker with deep experience in idea generation through development, and from QA through market launch and onboarding. Experience leading large, multi-faceted design teams and small, incubation teams. Uniquely good at distilling a problem or opportunity to its actionable essence. Passionate technology evangelist, ability to find user value in emerging technology and make it understandable and actionable. Accelerates innovation through design thinking workshops, hackathons, design jams. 5-day design sprints and MVP development. Experience driving MVP development with Partners. Excels at empowering and putting the right people together to collaborate and achieve great things. Skills include strategy, user research, product management and launch, data analysis and visualization, sales and partner enablement, gamification, Information Architecture, user onboarding. ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Lean/Agile development. Process and Program Management leader.
Rohan Mishra
Founder at Design Sundays
Hi, My name is Rohan Mishra. I am the founder of Design Sundays, & the Co-leading product designer for Consumer App, Zomato. When not stressing over user problems and mentoring design professionals you can find me stressing over coffee, chicken, and Books, in no particular order. With my 7+ years of experience in UI/UX designing world-class products for startups, I bring my journey, learnings, and failures to LinkedIn. My content is focused on building awareness and insights for the Startup founders and Designers to Design better products. Currently, I am helping a few startups in Indonesia, Singapore, and other SEA countries Design products by building solid Design Principles, helping them connect with their users (User Research), and helping them build a rockstar User Experience Design team. I know that most of these startups will become Unicorns and Decacorns as we are solving real problems in a very customer-friendly manner. I'm also passionate about teaching and mentoring aspiring UX designers. I hold Cohort-based courses and mentoring sessions to impart my expertise and experience. I have delivered over 40 workshops and 20 talks in top companies, and colleges as well as online events, Mentored 400+ Design Aspirants.
Krishna Vadrevu
Staff UX Designer at Nutanix
I get excited about new problems to solve, fun things to learn, & amazing people to grow with. I've been chasing all of these for the past 8+ years as a product & UX designer for organizations large & small. These stepping stones have provided me with a problem-solving framework & tool-set which I have been putting to use & evolving over the past 8 years as a product & UX designer. I enjoy combining my knowledge of people & the information systems they use to craft impactful experiences with wonderful partners. See more at vkrishnav.com
Angela Wong
Learning Design Manager at Slack
Learning Experience Designer with over 5+ years of experience working primarily in customer-centric verticals under SaaS companies including Lending Club, LinkedIn, Checkr & Slack. Bread & butter include elearning authoring, curriculum development, certification, LMS, and a tutorial videos.
Shpetim Ujkani
Staff User Experience Designer at Mandiant
Product Designer focused on UX/UI and Interaction Design. I've worked with large companies and small startups, helping to tackle complex issues through design thinking, thus producing results to meet business needs. I'm all about creating experiences people love!
Kristina Parrill
UX Design Manager at Alpha Omega Integration, LLC
As a graphic designer turned UX practitioner, I practice user-centered design with a keen eye for visual appeal. I have experience applying design in alignment with Agile methodologies. Additionally, I have worked with teams in established organizations and within a startup environment.