Lynn McLeod is the founder of Market Architects, a product management consulting company that serves emerging internet software and services companies. Ms. McLeod has over 15 years of software industry experience including small business and enterprise applications.

She is a Certified ScrumMaster, member of the Usability Professionals Association and holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to founding Market Architects, Ms. McLeod held product management and marketing positions at venture funded start-ups and established Silicon Valley companies, including:

• Director, Product Management at PayCycle, a private SaaS company providing payroll services for small businesses and accountants.
• Director of Marketing at ConsenSys Software (now Augeo Software), a venture-funded start-up developing client/server and web-based business applications.
• Director of Product Marketing at Reach Software (now Responsys), a venture-funded start up developing e-mail-based workflow software and development tools.
• Vertical Applications Manager at Metaphor (purchased by IBM), a software and services company developing data warehousing and decision support systems.
• Product Manager at SPC, developer of Harvard and pfs brands (now Serif). Managed products delivered through multi-tiered retail channels.
• Product Line Manager at Intel; managed the 8086/8088/8087 microprocessor product line.