Product Mentors in the 2023 Responsible Tech Mentorship Program
This year we’re joined by 115 volunteer mentors and 375 mentees from nearly 35 countries. Mentors work at startups, non-profits, in government, at large companies, and even run their own organizations. Many of our mentors are returning for a second time, and some have been with us since the very first cohort in 2021.
Mentorship pods have been divided into subgroups by speciality, and here you’ll find a list of all the mentors in Product.
Our mentors in product are responsible for the end-to-end development and success of a product or feature. They identify market needs, define product goals, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and launch products that meet user needs and drive business growth. In the context of responsible tech, people in product play a crucial role in ensuring that products are developed and deployed ethically and sustainably. By integrating responsible tech principles into their decision-making processes, product managers can help create products that not only deliver value but also align with the larger goals of building a more ethical and inclusive technological landscape.
Read about the mentors leading this charge in 2023 for All Tech Is Human (listed in alphabetical order):
Colin Cripps
Colin is a freelance consultant with a background in philosophy and digital design. He works with companies big and small to design services and software that are inclusive, responsible and sustainable.
Shannon Hong
Shannon Hong (she/her) is a Chinese American writer and technologist based in San Francisco, CA, working on just and responsible technology that can make the world a better place. Previously, as a Product Manager at Scale AI, she led technical teams to build the marketplace for over 100k users, designing the incentives policy and allocation system. She serves as the strategic planning committee chair on the board of CounterPulse, an experimental performing arts nonprofit that incubates the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture. At the University of California, Berkeley, she studied Development Studies and Data Science, and she finds great joy in building community all around the world, having worked in SF, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, and New York. You can find her on the internet editing the Asian American lit column APIA-nionated in ANMLY magazine or making tea brewing videos.
Vinayak Jha
Zia Mohammad
Zia Mohammad is currently a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Web Services working in Quantum Computing. His experiences have immersed him in the venture capital, AI, fintech, and most recently quantum computing domains. Zia holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience from The Ohio State University. Outside of work, Zia can be found reading about technology policy, trying to visit every country, or searching for the best dessert shop in NYC.
Tarika Marshall
Having founded two businesses in consumer trust and tech ethics, and 20 years in digital spaces, in aerospace/energy, healthtech, ecommerce, gaming, telecoms and media sectors, I enjoy helping businesses innovate responsibly. Through my work at startups and corporates I’ve experienced most things: raising finance, growth, building products, platforms, go-to-market, new business models and building and scaling teams; With expertise in commercial and product strategy.
At Rolls Royce’s data and AI innovation lab, I’ve led a new digital transformation strategy, to help tackle critical challenges in supply chain, sustainability and AI ethics, with cross functional data science, tech and commercial teams.
As founder of tech ethics consultancy, Humankind Technologies (a Zinc VC venture), I’ve overseen some amazing research projects - user centred design with The Wellcome Trust, data ethics with the Imperial College SCAMP team (global study of smartphones and teens) and launched a first-of-it’s-kind ethical app prototype lab with Kidzania London. I previously founded award winning ‘Future 50 Most disruptive UK business’ Cahootsy, a group commerce site, developing consumer trust online, and the management team of a VC backed media company to exit.
An advocate for innovation with measurable societal impact, I’ve co-chaired the Responsible Tech roundtable with VC Saul Klein, bringing together the Government, technologists, academia and healthcare; EiR and Mentor at start up innovation labs Mass Challenge, Zinc and Google and on the University of Cambridge Leadership Programme for Business and Climate Change- transition to net zero - to build sustainable business models for the future.
Twitter @TarikaMarshall
Tatiana Pilon
Tatiana Pilon is the co-founder of Brightbots, a tech services company based in Brooklyn, NY supporting start-up founders & venture capital on their journey to building solutions that scale and are AI responsible. Her career in responsible tech started as a content moderator at Google in 2012 as she became curious about challenges of natural language processing and harmful online behavior classification. She then spent the next decade exploring the possibilities of emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. She holds a masters in science from NYU and has previously worked at Lucasfilm, Credit Suisse, and Munich Reinsurance.