Surya KohLeadership review 2026

Media room · 2026

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Surya Koh — Chief Product Officer. Finding the customer problem worth building for.

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I lead product organisations at the intersection of customer problems, business ambition and technical possibility. My focus is on helping teams make considered choices about what deserves to be built, what should be learned first and what should be stopped.

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I lead product organisations at the intersection of customer problems, business ambition and technical possibility. My focus is on helping teams make considered choices about what deserves to be built, what should be learned first and what should be stopped.

I see a roadmap as an expression of judgement, not a list of promises. Discovery and delivery belong in the same operating system: evidence from customers should change priorities, and the consequences of those priorities should be visible to the business.

I build relationships between product, engineering, design and commercial teams so that the organisation can make trade-offs together rather than negotiate them late in delivery.

Coverage

As featured in

  • The Product Leaders Forum · 2025

    “Retiring 70% of the roadmap was the best decision we made”

  • The Technology Leaders Review · 2024

    “Discovery as a leadership habit”

  • The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2024

    “Episode 125 — The problem worth solving”

Writing

Books & publications

  • The Problem Worth Solving: Leading Product with Customer Truth

    Ashgrove Press · 2024

Recognition

Honours

  • Product Leader of the YearThe Product Leaders Forum2024
  • Best Digital ExperienceThe Enterprise Technology Awards2022

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