
Melissa Perri is a strategic advisor, author, and board member who works with leaders at Fortune 500 companies and SaaS scale-ups to enable growth by building impactful product strategies and organizations. In 2018 she wrote the industry-acclaimed book Escaping the Build Trap. Currently, Melissa is the CEO and founder of Product Institute, which helps companies design modern product operating models and deploy them across their organizations through executive advisory, diagnostics, and e-learning. She is a former board member for Meister, Labster, Dragonboat, and Forsta (acquired by Press Ganey in 2022). In 2019, Melissa was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach Product Management in the MBA program. She has consulted with dozens of companies to transform their product organizations, including Insight Partners, Capital One, Vanguard, and Walmart/Sam's Club. In her free time, you can find her at the restaurant she opened with her sister, Greenhouse in Bluffton, SC.