Meet the Instructors
Leslie Grandy
Leslie Grandy is an experienced product leader with a track record of delivering innovative consumer experiences and building products and businesses that scale at public companies like RealNetworks, Apple, Discovery Communications and T-Mobile. While at T-Mobile, Grandy led the team that launched the first Android device, the T-Mobile G1. She most recently built Best Buy's Seattle Technology Development Center and held the role of senior director, product, and grew her team to more than 265 product managers, engineers and designers across three time zones.
Grandy's profile included the company's consumer mobile apps, conversational AI, digital media and advertising, and voice-assistances teams. At the invitation of the CEO, Grandy currently serves as a paid member of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' Innovation Advisory Council and founded her own product and innovation advisory service, the Product Guild.
Grandy previously served as independent director on the board of directors for Zantler Corp, a privately held social-commerce startup; a member of the board of advisors for Kaprica Security, a mobile-security startup; and counseled the C-Suite on marketing, partnerships and business-development activities.