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Tatyana Mamut
Head of Product (CPO) at Nextdoor

Tatyana Mamut is a transformative leader in Silicon Valley who drives innovation by understanding customers deeply and leading through empathy. She is a serial entre/intrapreneur, building successful new businesses at Amazon, Salesforce, and IDEO. She is currently Head of Product (CPO) at Nextdoor.

At Amazon Web Services, Tatyana was General Manager & Director of Product, where she built a revolutionary new software product and scaled the team from 2 to 150 engineers, product managers, and designers. At Salesforce, she was Vice President of Product Experience for the IoT (Internet of Things) Cloud, where she led the vision and development for the democratization of IoT technology. She has a successful track record of building innovative products and teams from the ground up in complex and highly regulated environments.

Tatyana was also a leader at IDEO, where she built and led the Organization Design practice globally, helping complex public and private companies build innovation capabilities. Tatyana has a PhD in cultural anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics & econometrics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from eastern Ukraine and comes from three generations of Soviet professional women. She lives with her spouse, two daughters, and Siberian street dog in San Francisco.