Outpace Coach

Rajesh Nerlikar

Product Leader

Coach Bio

After 12 years of IC PM and product leadership at startups, I've been a product coach, advisor, recruiter and consultant for the past 5. I love helping people unlock their career potential and there's nothing more rewarding that to see a client hit career and product milestones.

Career Highlights

- Started a company to reward people for sustainable behavior

- Saw the pre-IPO stage at Opower and helped increase margins to get a better valuation

- Led fintech product team after an acquisition

- Owned $40M financial wellness portfolio

- Wrote book on our Vision-Led PM framework

Company Experience

Accenture, Opower, HelloWallet, Morningstar, Savonix

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Victoria empowers people to take action to define their values and challenge their limits with compassion, focusing on research-based leadership strategies and from-the-field tactics.

Experience

Victoria empowers people to take action to define their values and challenge their limits with compassion, focusing on research-based leadership strategies and from-the-field tactics. She's currently the COO and Co-Founder of Outpace. She led the go-to-market for ground-breaking products at Facebook and Uber, including the initial development and launch of uberPOOL and Facebook Live. At Netflix, she led Product Innovation for shows in the verticals of Unscripted and Series, including "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" and "You".

She's also worked extensively with startups as Startup Garage mentor at Station F in Paris, Twitter Chimehack Hack-a-thon, MIT, Kleiner Perkins Hack, and more. Victoria has spoken on the intersection of leadership, technology, and personal growth at TEDxUCLA, Women of Impact, Seattle Interactive, University of Southern California, and Wonder Women in Tech. She holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from MIT Sloan and BA in Mass Media and Business Economics from UCLA.

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Amy was an executive at CBS and Top Partner Lead in Google’s Global Partnerships group where she led relationships with Google’s most important media, broadcast and entertainment partners. She focuses on sparking the mindset changes necessary to thrive in the future of work.

Experience

Amy Young is the Founder and CEO of Redefine Possibility and Head of Coaching for SWAY Workplace. Prior to founding Redefine Possibility, Amy was a Top Partner Lead in Google’s Global Partnerships group where she led relationships with Google’s most important media, broadcast and entertainment partners. She focuses on sparking the mindset changes necessary to thrive in the future of work.

Andrew Hapke
Business Leadership • Business Strategy • Product Strategy
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Andrew coaches leaders in technology to take their careers and companies to the next level. Before he became an executive coach he spent 15 years building products and leading teams at American Express, Etsy, and Splice. Having been a start-up founder, a product leader and a mentor to technology executives, he has worked at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology and social impact for his whole career. Andrew received his MBA from Yale, and his undergraduate business degree from Villanova. When he is not coaching, he likes to surf, garden, cook.

Experience

Andrew coaches leaders in technology to take their careers and companies to the next level. Before he became an executive coach he spent 15 years building products and leading teams at American Express, Etsy, and Splice. Having been a start-up founder, a product leader and a mentor to technology executives, he has worked at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology and social impact for his whole career. Andrew received his MBA from Yale, and his undergraduate business degree from Villanova. When he is not coaching, he likes to surf, garden, cook.

Rajesh Nerlikar
Product Management • Startups • Career
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Engineer turned MBA turned B2B2C product guy. 17 years of PM experience across several startups (3 exits) and 40 coaching clients.

Experience

After 12 years of IC PM and product leadership at startups, I've been a product coach, advisor, recruiter and consultant for the past 5. I love helping people unlock their career potential and there's nothing more rewarding that to see a client hit career and product milestones.

Ali Brandt
Product Management • Leadership
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Ali is a product leader, coach and consultant with over a decade of experience at mission-driven organizations including Kiva, Change.org, and Gojek.

Experience

Ali is a product leader, coach and consultant with over a decade of experience at mission-driven organizations including Kiva, Change.org, and Gojek. Since 2015 Ali has consulted with a wide range of startups, from small, series A teams to 5000+ international organizations. As a consultant Ali helps product leaders build strong products, teams and programs to deliver the most value to their customers. As a coach, Ali brings her breadth of experience in product management and startup leadership to help PMs and product leaders tackle key questions around their products, teams and careers.

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