Brian Root

Fractional Chief Product Officer and Founder of Rooted In Product

Brian Root is a seasoned product executive with a passion for developing impactful digital products, with extensive experience across eCommerce, FinTech, and InsurTech. He has built, led and scaled numerous cross-functional product and design teams, for companies ranging from startups to some of Fortune 100’s largest companies (Amazon and Walmart), and honed his ability to create environments that foster innovative solutions and drive growth by truly meeting users’ needs.

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Kristie Gan

Fractional Chief Product Officer

Kristie is a senior executive with a proven ability to scale businesses from 0 to 1 and beyond. Whether optimizing enterprise solutions or building and scaling startup products, she combines strategic vision, technical acumen, and a relentless focus on the user to drive meaningful business impact. Her deep expertise spans eCommerce, marketplace strategy, payment solutions, and edtech. 

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Lisa Hagen

Fractional Chief Product Officer

Lisa is a dynamic product leader with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams, launching market-defining products, and driving transformative growth. With expertise spanning edtech, healthcare, AI, and go-to-market technology, she blends strategic vision with a pragmatic, results-driven approach, delivering solutions that are intuitive, valuable, and deeply connected to customer needs. She has led initiatives that unlocked millions in cost savings, restructured product functions for greater efficiency, and shaped growth strategies that opened $150M in new opportunities. Passionate about fostering outcome-driven teams, Lisa ensures organizations scale with agility, alignment, and a relentless focus on delivering real business impact.

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Matthew Gast

Fractional Director of Product Management

Matthew has 15 years of product leadership experience in cloud platforms, data systems and analytics, network infrastructure, developer tools, and security.  Throughout his career, he has done 0-1 work, both at startups and leading new initiatives in established companies.  His product work has focused on building data-driven user experiences, and building product analytics programs to understand and drive user delight and adoption.  Prior to working in product management, Matthew was an innovator and industry leader in the early development of Wi-Fi, and holds numerous patents for his contributions to the technical standards for Wi-Fi.

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