Product-Led Alliance Awards 2026: Your shortlist

The nominations are in, and wow, you didn't hold back. We received an incredible range of nominations from across the product community this year. Picking a shortlist was no easy job, but we got there.

Below, you'll find the full shortlist for the Product-Led Alliance Awards 2026, category-by-category.

These are the people and teams setting the standard in product right now.

CPO of the Year

These C-suite leaders have made product-led growth their strategy. They paired vision with execution and have the business results to prove it.

Here's your shortlist:

• Craig Adams, Chief Product Officer at Gradient AI
• Ines Lourenço, CPTO at Leadfeeder
• Jasmin Menz CPO at Drooms
• Kelvin Kwong CPO at Kinship ( a Mars petcare company)
• Vinod Suresh, CPO at GoDaddy

Product Leader of the Year

They've shipped results, from revenue to retention to growth, and they've built the teams behind them. For these shortlisted nominees, the people matter as much as the roadmap.

Here's your shortlist:

• Anastasia Moskovchenko , Head of Product at Reprally
• Annabel MacLeod , Head of Product Operations at SS&C Technologies
• Joseph Millares, Head of Product Operations at FedEx Dataworks
• Kayla McNeill, Director, Product Operations at Salesforce
• Nemer Al-Qarout, Director of Product at webook.com
• Paul Gunia , Senior Director, Head of Product - Poly Video, HP at HP
• Preeti Kashyap, Head of Product Management at Passport
• Rukmini Baruah, Head, Product Operations & AI Solutions at Akido Labs
• Setu Shah, Senior Director, Global Product Strategist at Oracle
• Wyatt Jenkins, SVP of Product at Intuit

Product-Led Rising Star

They are making their mark in the industry. These shortlisted nominees are the product talent everyone will be talking about in the years ahead.

Here's your shortlist:

• Adewunmi Ajike, Senior AI Product Manager at Telus
• Ashmeet Khanooja, Manager, Product Management at Optimum
• Riddhi Bhasker, Product Manager at Kyra
• Santhosh Kumar Ravindran, Principal Engineering Product Manager at Microsoft

Product Operations Rising Star

Broken process? Clunky tool? These shortlisted nominees spot it, fix it, and move on to the next one, and they're quickly becoming the names to watch in product ops.

Here's your shortlist:

• Chethan B N, Senior Product Operations Manager at Greytip Software
• Kunal Patel, Senior Manager – Digital Product Operations at American Express
• Stuti Mohan, Strategy & Operations Principal at Meta

Product Team of the Year

These teams keep initiatives on track, ship work that matters and deliver measurable impact across their organizations.

Here's your shortlist:

• Duetto
• Lifeway
• Women in Product London

AI-Fluent Product Innovator

These shortlisted nominees have shipped AI with results to back it up, whether it's a customer-facing feature or an AI-powered workflow that speeds up their whole team.

Here's your shortlist:

• Bani Malhotra, Founding Head of Product at Peggy Labs, Inc.
• Homer Wang, Head of Product at TinyFish
• Nitin Gupta, Manager Analytics: Global Product Owner - Commercial Analytics at Mondelz International
• Obiageli Okafor, Senior Product Manager at 8x8
• Sanjana Arun, Lead Product Manager at eBay

What's next?

A huge congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist. Getting here is a big achievement in itself.

Announcement date

So, the million-dollar question: when do we find out who's won?

We'll reveal the winners of the Product-Led Alliance Awards 2026 during our awards live broadcast on Monday, November 30.

Save your spot and tune in here.