Ben Bleikamp

Ben Bleikamp has worked for several companies since 2008. From 2008-2009 they were a Designer at Bleacher Report, where they designed and implemented new features in the Rails application for writers and readers. Ben also increased traffic 5x by running A/B tests on ad and feature placement. From 2009-2011 they were a Product Manager at Yelp, where they were the product lead for partnerships with Facebook and OpenTable and worked with engineering teams to design, build, and test new features. From 2011-2017 they were at GitHub, where they were the Director of Product, working with the CTO to start GitHub's product management team and was responsible for strategy, planning, and roadmap for core areas. Ben was also the Director of Product Design and a Product Designer, where they were an early member of the Product Design team and worked on Pull Requests, Issues, Notifications, and was the design lead for Mobile and Organizations. From 2017-2018 they were a Manager, Product Design at Meta. From 2018-2020 they were Consulting. Currently, they are a Limited Partner at GTMfund since 2022.

Ben Bleikamp received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Marketing from The Ohio State University.