Tanja Lau

Founder of Product Academy
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Product Academy

Bio

At Product Academy, Tanja is combining her passion for continuous learning with her professional background as product leader. As founding partner, CPO and COO of start-ups in Munich, Madrid and Zurich, she has gained valuable entrepreneurial experience which she passes on in her classes and as public speaker on various occasions.She was listed among the top 50 Women in Product in Europe in 2020 and 2023 by Product Management Festival and successfully coached product managers and teams at companies like Google, Swisscom, Just Eat Take-away, Migros Online and more.She loves taking on pet projects such as being Head of Marketing for TEDxZurich 2015 or launching non-profit initiatives. In 2017, she founded the local ProductTanks Bern and Zurich for Mind The Product. With her own company Product Academy, Tanja is fostering diversity and entrepreneurship in product by supporting selected participants with partial scholarships for Product Academy’s training programs.Like Alice in Wonderland, Tanja usually thinks of “as many as six impossible things before breakfast” and can’t go one day without eating chocolate.