Marty Cagan - Product Management
Chuck Geiger - Technology
Martina Lauchengco - Marketing
Kyrie Robinson - User Experience Design

 

Marty Cagan

Partner - Product Management

During the course of the past 20 years, Marty Cagan has served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, America Online, and eBay.

Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, and training, Marty was most recently senior vice-president of product management and design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company’s global e-commerce trading site.

Marty began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories conducting research on software technology, and building several software products for other software developers.

After HP, Marty joined a then young Netscape Communications Corporation, where he had the opportunity to participate in the birth of the Internet industry. Martin worked directly for co-founder Marc Andreessen, where he was vice-president for Netscape’s platform and tools, and later e-commerce applications, and worked to help Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike to understand and utilize the newly emerging technology.

During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management.

Marty is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz with B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Applied Economics (1981), and of the Stanford University Executive Institute (1994).

Marty Cagan can be contacted at: cagan(at)svpg(dot)com

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Chuck Geiger

Partner - Technology

Chuck has significant experience running some of the largest online transaction product organizations and most visited sites in the world, including as CTO of Ask.com, CTO of PayPal, VP Architecture of eBay, and executive positions at InterActive Corp., Gateway and Travelocity.

At InterActive Corp, Chuck was responsible for managing a consolidated data center strategy for IAC portfolio companies including Ask.com, Evite.com, CitySearch.com, Ticketmaster, and Match.com. Chuck also was responsible for the technology organization at Ask.com including Engineering, Architecture, Program Management, QA, IT, and Operations.

At PayPal, Chuck was responsible for the product development organization which includes Product Management, Design, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, IT, QA, Project Management, Content, and Localization, running a team of approximately 550 professionals.

At eBay, Chuck was responsible for the migration to the new generation system architecture and platform.

Chuck also ran e-commerce for Gateway and was one of the principals that built Travelocity.com where he served as VP of Product Development and Marketing.

Chuck helps SVPG clients with their product and technology strategies.

Chuck Geiger specializes in Engineering and Technology Management, Architecture and Product Development Process.

Chuck Geiger can be contacted at: geiger(at)svpg(dot)com.

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Martina Lauchengco

Partner - Marketing

Martina Lauchengco joined the Silicon Valley Product Group in 2005 to advise companies on how to use marketing, products, communications and organizational efficiency to meet their strategic goals. Her multi-disciplinary approach pulls from 15 years of experience in executive positions in product marketing, corporate marketing, consumer portal businesses, and as a chief-of-staff to the CEO at companies including Microsoft, Netscape, AOL and Loudcloud/Opsware.

Martina has helped contribute to several industry leading products, but she is best known for her work leading marketing - first for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office, and later for the Netscape Browser, two of the most successful software products of all time.

Martina began her career as a Product Manager for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office back when no one had heard of the latter, and Word only had 50% market share. She left to join Netscape in its early days, doing first product marketing for the Netscape Browser and eventually leading the product management teams defining Netscape’s client applications. Her final role at Netscape was leading it’s consumer portal business. Martina then followed several executives, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, to Loudcloud/Opsware (recently acquired by HP) where she led the marketing team prior to becoming the CEO's Chief of Staff.

Martina provides strategic consulting services to a diverse range of clients from Fortune 500 companies to young start-ups in a variety of industries including technology, non-profit, health, travel, food and beverage, and entertainment. Martina brings a wide range of skills and experience to help companies meet their strategic product, marketing and communication goals.

Martina earned her B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.

Martina Lauchengo can be contacted at: martina(at)svpg(dot)com.

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Kyrie Robinson

Partner - User Experience Design

Kyrie’s passion is to create world-class user experience and product design for consumer technology products and services. She has developed and led several successful User Experience teams at leading Silicon Valley companies, but she is best known for her pioneering work building and leading the user experience team at TiVo.

Prior to joining the Silicon Valley Product Group, Kyrie was the VP of User Experience at Rearden Commerce, and before that, at Shutterfly, where she led the effort to simplify and streamline the user experience and develop Shutterfly’s e-commerce offerings.

As the original Director of User Experience at TiVo, she founded and built the company's industry-recognized User Experience group, and Kyrie was a key member of the original product team for the company's groundbreaking product.

Kyrie began her technology career at Silicon Graphics working on the award-winning Iris workstation UI, and SGI's early WebForce products.

Kyrie has a Ph.D. from Stanford, and she is the co-inventor on multiple patents for product designs at TiVo and Shutterfly. She has also been a design consultant at several other high profile technology companies such as eBay and Zinio.

Kyrie Robinson can be contacted at: krobinson(at)svpg(dot)com.

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