Alan Byrne

Alan Byrne is an experienced product leader with a diverse professional background. He is currently a Senior Product Manager at HelloBetter, where he leads teams in developing innovative products.34

Professional Background:

• Previously worked as a Product Manager at multiple companies, including:
  • Intuit (leading payroll product strategy for UK Quickbooks)
  • Twitter (managing TweetDeck and Twitter Blue content access)
  • Quadrotech (building a product management team)

Entrepreneurial Experience: He was the CEO and Co-Founder of Cogmotive, a company he built from an MVP into a profitable multi-national business that was ultimately acquired by Quadrotech in November 2016.1

Personal Interests: Beyond his professional work, Alan is passionate about home automation and runs a YouTube channel called Home Automation Guy, where he shares insights to make home automation more accessible to people without an engineering background.2 He describes himself as a coffee enthusiast, an Excel expert, and someone who enjoys traveling and cooking.1

Educational Background: Alan holds a Masters in Management and transitioned from being a systems engineer and software developer to a product manager, driven by a desire to work directly with customers and create products that improve people's lives.12