Tasneem has over 15 years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, and Customer Experience Design. Passionate about understanding customers' needs and building great products, Tas has worked with iconic New Zealand companies, including Xero, Deloitte, MYOB, Orion Health, Caterpillar, and Pegasus Health. Tas was named APAC Community Leader of the year at the 2020 'Leading The Product' conference, and has been a speaker at national and international events.
René is a HPI (Hasso Plattner Institute) certified Design Thinking coach, and has taught and coached hundreds of people in Design Thinking. Early in life, René completed post-graduate degrees in Physics and Philosophy, and spent twelve years in the academic world. In 2011, he moved across to the corporate world, initially as an advisor for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in Wellington, New Zealand. Since then, he has worked with American Express, Deloitte, Audi, Swiss Post, Transport for New South Wales, Wikimedia Foundation and other large organisations in Australia, Europe, North America and New Zealand.