Brian Lawley Email & Phone Number

Brian Lawley is a Acoustic Rock Singer Songwriter at Mountain Charlie Studios based in Los Gatos, California, United States, North America. Brian Lawley (@brianlawley) writes fun, meaningful songs that make a difference. In 2019 he sold his company and cashed out of Silicon Valley and a 30 year career as a CEO and Author to pursue songwriting full-time. Prior to that he founded 280 Group, a Product Management and Product Marketing company that provides consulting, contractors, training, certification, books and templates. He is the former President of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. During his thirty year career in Product Management he has defined, launched and marketed over fifty successful products for companies. Mr. Lawley is the Author of the best-selling books Product Management for Dummies, 42 Rules of Product Management, Expert Product Management, The Phenomenal Product Manager, Optimal Product Process & 42 Rules of Product Marketing. He was awarded the Product Management Excellence Award for Thought Leadership by the Association of International Product Marketing & Management. He is editor of the Optimal Product Management newsletter & Blog and writes guest articles for many other publications. He frequently speaks on the topic of Product Management and has been featured on CNBC's World Business Review and the Silicon Valley Business Report. Mr. Lawley is a Certified Product Manager (CPM) and Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPMM). He earned an MBA with honors from San Jose State University and Bachelors Degree in Management Science from the University of California at San Diego with a Music Technology minor. His company, the 280 Group, provides consulting services, contractors and training. They also offer product management certifications as well as templates and on-demand training Toolkits (Product Manager's, Launch, Roadmap, Beta Program, Competitive Analysis, Product Review Program, Developer Program) and the PM Office. Career: 280 Group LLC Cisco, Wells Fargo, Adobe, Intel, Nokia, Palm, SAP, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard,TellMe, Netcom, Telocity, Quiver, Good, Omniva, hundreds of others. Whistle Communications 96-98 Symantec 95-96 Apple 91-95 Claris 88-91 Digidesign 87-88