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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Manish Barmecha

Fractional Chief Product Officer

Manish is a seasoned product leader with a track record of driving innovation and scaling SaaS companies to successful outcomes. As SVP of Product at JRNI, Manish increased customer retention by 25% and launched the company's first AI-powered capabilities. As a member of the leadership team at Klaviyo, he helped double revenue to $300M by leading product initiatives that transformed Klaviyo to a multi-product, multi-market company. As SVP of Product, and a member of the executive team at WordStream, he helped scale the company from $5M to $50M in revenue, leading to a successful acquisition by Gannett. Manish previously held senior product roles at Demandware (acquired by Salesforce) and Art Technology Group (acquired by Oracle). He spent his early career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey, and a software engineer at Thomson Corporation.

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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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Andy Gorman

Fractional Director of Product Management

Andy is a proven product leader with deep experience creating customer value and driving growth through web, mobile, platform, and data products. Well versed in multiple business models, he has led products from 0-1 stages to 10x growth, and has built and optimized product and product related teams, emphasizing value creation through customer understanding, operational excellence, quality, and innovation.

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Joe Troderman

Fractional Director of Product Management

Joe is a product leader experienced in team and organizational restructuring, AI/ML project delivery, strategic long-term planning, and change management. Joe recenters teams around data insights and OKRs to drive outcome delivery and prioritizing initiatives to drive growth in line with the company vision.

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Alex Dubois

Fractional Senior Product Manager

Alex is a seasoned product leader who transforms business challenges into growth opportunities. With a track record of scaling marketplaces at Neighbor and launching high-impact products at Amazon, he specializes in user-centric problem discovery, market research, and data-driven product strategy.

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