Kent Odland

Kent Odland has extensive experience in product management. Kent is currently working as the Director of Product at findhelp since June 2022. Prior to this, they were a co-founder at karmaPond from August 2013 to June 2022.

Kent has also worked as a Senior Product Manager at FreeWill from September 2021 to December 2021. In this role, they were responsible for the entire nonprofit product portfolio and created a new quarterly roadmap process for the product team. Kent also led the discovery for the next generation customer portal and defined the new product strategy.

Before FreeWill, Kent worked as a Senior Product Manager at Blackbaud from June 2017 to September 2021. Kent drove the strategy to unify the acquired multi-product portfolio and led distributed teams across different locations to deliver high-value features and new offerings. Kent also led a task force to improve work-life balance for product managers.

Prior to Blackbaud, Kent was a Senior Product Manager at Planview from January 2013 to January 2017, where they owned all aspects of the analytics and reporting solution across multiple product lines. Kent conducted interviews with customers and internal stakeholders to understand strengths and weaknesses and set a new course.

Kent also has experience as a Senior Product Manager at Innography (Acquired by CPA Global) from July 2010 to November 2012. Kent was responsible for managing the intellectual property product line and worked with the founder to set vision and execute product strategy.

Before that, they worked as a Product Management Consultant, providing services for various software companies. Some of their clients included Coremetrics (Acquired by IBM), where they managed the creation of a no-cost analytics offering, and Simpler-Webb (Acquired by HEIT), where they led a management team to research and target customer markets for a scheduling solution.

Kent started their career as a self-employed Product Management Consultant from December 2002 to December 2005. During this time, they provided product, process, and project management services for high-growth software companies.

Overall, Kent Odland has a strong background in product management and has worked on various projects across different companies throughout their career.

Kent Odland holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin. The specific start and end year of their education are not provided.