Mike Belsito

Mike Belsito is a startup business developer who loves creating something from nothing. He is Head of Product Evangelism for Pendo and Mind the Product, the world's largest product management community. Pendo brought Mind the Product together with Product Collective, the Cleveland-born community Mike co-founded and the home of INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, in September 2024. For his leadership there he has been named one of the top 40 influencers in product management several times, and he is now writing The Future-Proof Product Manager, due from Wiley in February 2027.

Before that, Mike spent about a decade in startups as an early employee, leader and co-founder. He was employee number one at Inc. 500 company Findaway, co-founded eFuneral and served as VP of Product at Movable. He wrote the book Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us, and products and businesses he has built have been featured in The Atlantic, Inc., CNN, PBS and The New York Times.

He holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University. Mike, his wife, Hannah, and their son, Edison, live in Lakewood, Ohio, where he has served as the city's Entrepreneur-in-Residence.