Client Testimonials
“In years of working with product management professionals I can say, without reservation, Sue is right at the top. She is simply remarkable. From technical knowledge to market and customer understandings to fitting in with the nuances of a team to professional attitude and follow through … she is as good as it gets.”
—Martin Hall, Founder & Chairman of Karmasphere
“I met Sue in 2010 and in early 2011 realized that I needed some external marketing expertise to review and revamp Schooner’s customer-facing economic models (ROI, total cost of ownership, etc.). I hired Sue for the job and was very happy with the results. She gave me an extremely accurate schedule, which she met with the intermediate and final deliverable. She waded in and mastered some fairly complex product-specific material, and her analysis resulted in a markedly better set of sales tools than we had before. I was very happy with Sue’s work and plan to use her again.”
—Jerry Rudisin, CEO & President of Schooner Information Tecnnology
“I had the pleasure of working with Sue on a large scale reporting needs project for an enterprise class application. Sue showed strong talents in interviewing users, developing personas, translating the needs of users into concrete requirements, and data visualization. I was impressed how quickly she was able to learn our industry. Possibly most significant, she worked very independently… After the first few meetings together, it was clear to me that Sue could manage customers very well on her own as well as be a strong face for our company. The project has been a great success.”
— Chris Hallenbeck, VP of Product Management, DemandTec
“Sue is an excellent product manager and has a great consulting work ethic. She is technically very capable; she quickly picked up a new domain (virtualization) and started contributing in no time. She takes the effort to understand customer needs well, translates them into actionable product plans, and works well with the rest of the team to incorporate them into the product – all what you’d expect from a first-rate PM professional. She has a wonderful work ethic and, in my experience, works with her clients’ best interests in mind. Overall, her great results demonstrate her depth of knowledge, experience, and skill in the Product Management area. I fully recommend Sue to her prospective clients.”
— Ramesh Chandra, Founder, MokaFive
“After having the pleasure of working with Sue more than once, I’ve found myself recommending her to people over and over again. Twice in the last two weeks, actually. If you had called me and said “I need a product manager who ‘gets it,’ who has the ability to get things done, and the ability to navigate organizations and execs” – I would have asked – “Have you talked to Sue Raisty-Egami?” She is excellent at product management, not just as a consultant, but as a manager of product managers. She also has technical chops, and understands how software and technology companies – and their markets – tick. I look forward to working with Sue again in the future at any opportunity. You should too.”
— Scott Sehlhorst, President of Tyner Blain
“I strongly recommend Sue as a product management consultant. Without much prior experience in our target market, Sue was able to quickly understand our business. She hit the ground running and immediately made positive contributions. Sue excels at quickly understanding customer problems and translating them into clear and actionable requirements. She is also very good at dealing with clients and I could trust her to represent me in meetings with customers. Sue has an extraordinary depth of experience in the product management of enterprise software products. We received great value from the work she did for DemandTec and I would not hesitate to hire her again.”
— Kali Klena, Director of Product Management, DemandTec
“Sue is a complete professional, detail orientated, ethical, with complete commitment to the projects she takes on. She showed the ability to manage a diverse group of professionals, motivating and creating a team from strangers, while directing an intensely creative and collaberative process. Sue set and met deadlines and delivered our project on-time while exceeding all of our expectations. She continues to offer her input and expertise to insure the long term success of the now completed project.”
— Heidi Peterson, YWCA of Silicon Valley
To view additional testimonials from clients and former colleagues, view Sue’s profile on LinkedIn.
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