2021 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award
In just nine short years, Prerna Singh has applied her degrees in Business Administration and Human-Computer Interaction to build a successful career in product management, working with some of the world’s top companies. Beginning as a consultant with the IBM Experience group, Prerna helped Fortune 500 companies create meaningful products and experiences through better understanding of their users. Today, she leads a team of product managers as senior director of product management for Meetup. A dedicated community builder, Prerna is co-founder and leader of the New York City chapter of Women in Product, building a deep network of more than 2,000 female product managers and executives to promote and advance women in product management careers.
She is also deeply involved as an active leader and mobilizer in the CMU community, serving as a member of the President’s Advisory Board and the Tepper Undergraduate Alumni Taskforce, and as president of CMU NY Metro Alumni Network for the last three years. She has also shepherded building a deep Tech & Entrepreneurship alumni network in NYC, fostering a robust ecosystem to connect students, alumni, and faculty to opportunities in the startup and entrepreneurship space.