An Insider’s Guide to Product Management

Curious about product management but not sure what the role really is? In this dynamic panel, senior product leaders from consumer tech, fintech, and edtech share what product managers do, how the role varies across industries, and how students can get started.

Our confirmed panelists include:

• Nakul Arora, Senior Product Manager for Stays Search at Kayak. Nakul has a wealth of experience in the travel and hospitality sector, including founding the Hotel Silver Palace, a 30-room hotel catering to 18,000 guests annually. Nakul holds a BS of Technology in Mining from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University.
• Alo Mukerji, Senior Vice President of Product Management at US Bank. Alo has led product teams across industries, including Constant Contact (marketing SaaS), Buildium (property tech), Toast (retail point of sales) and many more. Alo holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Chimuanya Okoro-Dorisca is the Group Product Manager at Meazure Learning. She also teaches EM54 Engineering Management at Tufts. She has also worked in diverse sectors, from Paytronix (HR Tech) to edX (edTech – online learning platform) and Examity, now part of Meazure Learning (edTech – proctoring software). Chimuanya holds a BA in Computer Science and American Studies from Wellesley College.
• This panel is moderated by Professor Elaine Chen, a hardware startup veteran who has run numerous engineering and product management organizations prior to joining Tufts. Elaine holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

This is an Inside the Classroom event hosted by Professor Elaine Chen, who teaches ENT162 Bringing Product to Market at Tufts University.