Between Product and Partnerships Podcast

Scott Lavery, Senior Product Manager at Arkestro, joins Pandium CEO Cristina Flaschen to unpack the transition of integrations from simple features to essential business infrastructure. By exploring the hidden technical debt of low-code platforms and the "invisible" nature of integration success, Scott provides a pragmatic playbook for PMs navigating messy inherited stacks and complex vendor dependencies.

Jacqueline Karlin, AI Product Executive and Founder, shares how she turns mission-driven purpose into actionable products. From defining her “why” to solving real-world problems in commerce and technology, Jacqueline walks us through her approach to customer-first innovation and building products that scale.

In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Cristina Flaschen talks with Mike Gelber, Chief Product Officer at Impiricus, about his path into product leadership and what he’s learned building products in the healthcare industry.

Cristina Flaschen talks with Michael Kowalchik founder and CEO of Matterbeam, about why data integration breaks down inside scaling SaaS companies and what a modern architecture should look like. They discuss why pipelines fail, why AI cannot fix weak data infrastructure, and how MatterBeam’s approach helps teams access consistent, trustworthy data as they grow.

A behind-the-scenes look at how Anaplan’s VP of Product Launch, Therese Stowell, builds scalable, cross-functional systems that turn fast-moving SaaS innovation into successful, revenue-driving product launches.

Cristina Flaschen and Francesca Smedberg explore how modern product leaders move beyond features to build focused, outcome-driven teams.

In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Nate Lee, founder of Cloudsec.AI, shares insights on managing security risks in SaaS ecosystems and AI-powered tools.

In this episode, Cristina speaks with Chris Samila, Co-Founder of Partnership Leaders, about strategies for successfully activating company ecosystems. They dive into what differentiates top-performing ecosystem leaders, how services can be transformed from a support function into a growth driver, and the latest trends in partnership compensation and career development.