Ezinne Udezue

Chief Product Officer, WP Engine

Ezinne leads the strategic development of customer-centric products at WP Engine. Her mission is to position WP Engine as the premier destination for WordPress site builders, empowering them to build, manage, and optimize websites for themselves and their clients. She is a versatile business leader with a unique blend of creative, technical, and managerial expertise. Her leadership and contributions to Product Management, Innovation and Design have earned her US patents, and recognition from various institutions and communities globally. 

Prior to her role at WP Engine, she served as General Manager for Owners, and Head of Product – Platform at Procore. In these roles, she led the development of Procore’s Construction Intelligence Platform through strategic acquisitions, and spearheaded the creation of capabilities to enable Procore to scale across multiple sectors and segments.

Ezinne’s extensive experience spans roles in B2B and consumer solutions, including co-founding Product Mind, a product advisory firm, and holding leadership positions at at T-Mobile, Time Inc, Discovery, and Bazaarvoice. Passionate about fostering innovation, she enjoys working with founders and supporting the startup ecosystem. She serves as a Board Member of DivInc, a startup accelerator, and as an All-Star mentor with TechStars, focusing on helping underestimated and underrepresented founders achieve success.

Ezinne holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UT Arlington, where she is a Board of Advisors member, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and dual MBAs from Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  Residing in Texas with her husband and two children, Ezinne enjoys cooking, good music, and sharing belly laughs over puns and “dad jokes.”