Hi, I'm
Ben.

I'm a senior product leader with a decade of experience bringing new inventions to life.

My products have sold millions of units and earned rave reviews.

If you're inventing a new consumer product or looking for advice on the industry, let's talk!

Category Expertise

consumer hardware · music and audio · productizing ML/AI · wearables

new tech application · smart home / IoT · mobile apps · sensory augmentation

Highlighted Projects

Reinventing Earbuds

Earbuds that aren't earbuds:
nothing blocking your ears, revolutionary comfort, spooky good sound

Spatial Audio Experience

World's Best Noise Cancelling

Portable Smart Speaker

Taking a magical experience you can't understand until you hear it — and
making it make sense

Launching the best noise cancelling
the world has ever seen, and telling shoppers the story of how we did it

Careful tradeoffs to make a bestselling product when other brands had failed to combine voice control + portability

I've led eight consumer hardware products from concept to launch — including novel inventions, product line extensions, and many software features.

Hardware / Software / Org Design

Hardware

Software

Organization Design

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Specialties

Product management is all about deciding what to build and why — and then making it happen.

Early-stage product work

Design a "master plan" product strategy

Build a new product innovation process

Turn a technology
into a product

Hire the right team across product, eng, design, research

Generate, refine, and validate product concepts

Plot out an iterative path to product-market fit

Pinpoint your ideal customer profile with the right research

Prototyping and lean iteration with customers in the loop

Late-stage and launch

Make the call on
when and what to launch

Distill inventions into stories that hook customers

Make tough technical tradeoffs across disciplines

Avoid rookie hardware scale-up mistakes

Perfect your UX — every product's secret weapon

Build hardware development processes for speed and scale

Build frameworks to prioritize product and feature roadmaps

Polished demos for press and partners

Advising / Best Practices / Mentorship

Advising / Best Practices / Mentorship

Credentials

Launched 8 groundbreaking earbuds and speakers, leading large teams as a principal product manager at Bose

Developed and scaled 7 products as a multidisciplinary engineer at ThinkEco, an electronics start-up

MBA with Product and Strategy focus from Harvard Business School

Physics and Astrophysics at Harvard College, with product engineering coursework at MIT

See what my colleagues say — scroll down to 'Recommendations' on LinkedIn

Currently leading a new initiative at Loop Earplugs, a scale-up reinventing the human relationship with sound

Let's talk

I'm available for advising, mentorship, teaching, and comparing notes on how to build great products

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