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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Is Product Management a Profession?
The line has been drawn, right down the middle of our NY Metro Chapter Board!
Once you have PM skills, can you:
• Change companies and industries and pick up new product lines?
OR
• Must you work your way up from the bottom all over again if you try to switch jobs?
Come join this spirited debate and hear our panel discuss this issue that is crucial to our careers. The panel will include recruiters, hiring managers and a successful industry switching PM professional – each with their own perspective and view on this important issue.
Some say yes and some say no – what do you think? Come to listen, ask questions and share your views.
Panelists
Khan Smith has been Vice President of Product Management since October of 2005 and TACODA's Chief Privacy Officer since September 2007. In January of 2008, Khan’s role was expanded to lead TACODA’s Marketing department. Mr. Smith joined the company from Microsoft, where he had been Senior Product Planner for MSN’s Audience Segmentation Tool Suite driving product strategy, planning, technical development and sales planning. His concentration was on development and monetization of demographic, geographic, day-part, and behavioral targeting attributes. Mr. Smith joined Microsoft in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he was with Avenue A, a leading interactive agency. He began his career at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.
Michael Vermillion was most recently with Dun & Bradstreet where he led a team of 26 product managers in the turnaround of D&B's $600 million credit reporting business. He began his business career at Procter & Gamble as the finance manager on Comet (a scouring powder for your sink) and was responsible for competitive analysis for the hard surface cleaners category (think Mr.. Clean and Spic & Span) and then cost analysis for the bar soap category (Ivory, Zest and Coast). His final assignment at P&G was in global strategic planning for health & beauty care products where he was the CFO for the global Old Spice brand and the team that lead P&G's first truly global product launch.
Between D&B and P&G, Mr. Vermillion was involved in projects that generally revolve around the theme of business transformation. He has bought and sold over $200 million of businesses, started a venture-backed company and advised several Fortune 500 companies on business strategy including Eli Lilly, Georgia Pacific, RR Donnelley, EDS and BellSouth.
Steven Haines is the President and founder of Sequent Learning Networks, a training and advisory services firm based in New York City which is committed to elevating the profession of product management. Steven has over twenty-five years of corporate experience in finance, marketing, and product management having fine-tuned his business acumen in industries such as wholesale industrial products, intimate apparel, medical products, communications, and software & technology. Steven spent fifteen years as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University’s business school. He holds an undergraduate degree in Management Science with a minor in Organizational Behavior from Binghamton University and an MBA in Corporate Financial Management from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Steven is the author of the upcoming book "The Product Manager's Desk Reference" being published by McGraw-Hill in the Summer, 2008.
Event Logistics
Date : Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Time : 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Location:
Support Center for Nonprofit Management
305 Seventh Ave (near 27th)
11th Floor
New York, NY
Dinner : Deli Buffet
Format: Networking / Presentation / Networking
Cost : $30 - PDMA, $40 - Non-Member, $15 - Student
Early-Bird (until March 5th): $25 - PDMA, $35 - Non-Member, $10 Student
PDMA Members: Bring a Non-Member paying the above rate and your fee will be waived! Just let us know at check-in.
PDH : 2 PDH
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