Holly Hester-Reilly

Biography

Holly is the founder of Product Science Group, a product management coaching and consulting firm that teaches the science of high-growth product development, and the host of the Product Science Podcast. Holly is a former Columbia University research scientist and has spent the last 15+ years leading product initiatives at startups, high-growth companies, and enterprises like FalconX, MediaMath, Shutterstock, The Lean Startup Co, Unilever, Novartis, Pfizer, GTreasury, Capital One, and Weight Watchers. With those experiences she has developed the Product Science Method, a framework to discover the strongest product opportunities and lay the foundations for high-growth products, teams, and businesses.

Her team at Product Science Group partners with startup founders and product leaders to share this framework, helping them to figure out which product growth opportunities they should pursue and build the product management skill to deliver on their goals.

In addition to teaching at the NYU Stern School of Business, Holly teaches public and private workshops and has spoken about building high-growth products for events such as the Annual Women in Product conference, Lean Startup Summit Europe, ProductTankNYC, Parsons School of Design, and INDUSTRY: The Product Conference.

Courses Taught

• Technology Product Management

Academic Background

MS, Chemical Engineering, 2008
Columbia University

BS, Chemical Engineering, 2006
Columbia University