Luke is a Senior Technology Leader and successful Software Product Manager with extensive knowledge of how a software product is developed and business is built from scratch. He has a proven track record of success in driving technology into a scalable market winning solution.  Luke first broke into Product after holding the positions as a Technical Engineer along with Program and Project Manager. During his lucrative career that spanned over 19 years, he has successfully led culturally-diverse and multi-disciplinary global product development teams. While holding multiple roles across product, engineering, and marketing, Luke has helped achieve transformative success and growth through product development across large, billion-dollar companies and venture-backed technology startups. Today, he is driving the company’s efforts at Nutanix as a Director of Product Management, working on several key projects from idea inception, market research, to eventual product delivery.  He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut School of Business and earned an MBA in Technology and Innovation from Santa Clara University. In addition to this, Luke has also contributed as Product Management volunteer Mentor for founders and accelerator participants. He is a truly compelling speaker who enjoys sharing his path on breaking into Product and the lessons he learned along the way.