Cindy F. Solomon is a product marketing leader and product management lifecycle expert. Solomon founded the Startup Product Academy and the movement for product excellence to facilitate a holistic view of product and provide a strategic foundation for forwarding both product leaders and professional product management organizations with innovative approaches across disciplines. Solomon developed The Product Summit conference to showcase product leaders and identify best practices for building and managing products across all industries and to ignite local professional product communities. Cindy hosted the Global Product Management Talk broadcast, a top 10 business podcast reaching 1/2 million listeners. Cindy is a frequent speaker, presenter and sought after moderator and curator for events and panel discussions. Contributing author to several books, including "42 Rules of Product Marketing” and the Guide to the ProdBOK, Product Management & Marketing Body of Knowledge. Solomon brings over 20 years of driving successful product marketing initiatives and managing organizations at enterprise and early stage software, hardware, web development, SaaS and mobile including Apple, Vadem, NetObjects and start-ups in Silicon Valley. She holds CPM/CPMM certification.