Holly Hester-Reilly

Product Leader & Founder

About

Holly Hester-Reilly is the Founder of Product Science Group 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, GTreasury, The Lean Startup Co, Unilever, 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 the 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. 

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

Motivation

I believe that we can use technology to solve real problems for real people, and I want to help create sustainable, enjoyable experiences for high-growth tech products, teams, and companies.

Just For Fun

Holly was a competitive figure skater in the 1990s during the reign of Michelle Kwan, who was her childhood hero. She trained at the same training center as Olympians including Surya Bonaly, Ilya Kulik, and Pasha Grishuk and Evgeny Platov.

Meet Our Team

The Product Science Group is made of passionate product leaders with decades of experience across startups and enterprises.

Mark Enache

Designer of all the digital things who strives towards experiences that bring people together on common ground, both within teams and with users.

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Holly Hester-Reilly

Product Leader & Founder

Holly is the founder of Product Science Group. Holly was a product leader at MediaMath during their journey to becoming a unicorn and at Shutterstock in the years after their IPO. She has spent the last 15 years working with startups, high-growth companies, and enterprises.

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Allison Cassing

User Researcher

Allison is a user researcher with over a decade of product management experience focused in data and insights at growth-stage startups MediaMath and Newsela. She has a deep interest in user experience and motivation.

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