Hector Lopez is a product development, management, and marketing professional. He is an engaging cross-functional team leader and inventor blending 13 years of marketing, operations, and multi-category product management experience for companies with revenues between $300M and $19B.

Most recently, Hector led market research for Rhapsody, the leading online music subscription service.  In this role, he championed research initiatives for segmentation, pricing, packaging, negotiations, homepage design, product plans, and company strategy. He worked with internal and external partners functionally spanning product development, marketing, advertising, design, sales, operations, and finance to deliver actionable insights. He is an experienced advisor to CEOs, CMOs, and COOs on key decisions translating into profit increases.  He is detail oriented and results driven, and has been awarded for his consensus-building style and informed decision-making.

Hector's background is atypical of traditional product managers in that he began his career in operations.  His early successes involved identifying opportunities to extend company resources through technology and leading cross-functional teams to deliver improved margins and sales. After working in supply chain logistics for Nike and Gap, he shifted his focus to product management and marketing.  Since then he has worked on products and services in personal finance, small business, media and entertainment, healthcare, and consumer electronics for companies such as Intuit, Monster Cable, Ubisoft, and Rhapsody.

He enjoys building great products and seeks to apply his operations experience towards delivering strategies which translate into time and money saving execution.  Hector has worked on numerous new products and services developing and applying flexible, rigorous approaches tailored to the needs of the market.  His work has resulted in patent applications and has improved the lives of countless customers. 

Education:
MBA Harvard
BA Yale: Economics

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