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LogicMonitor hires Taggart Matthiesen from Lyft to lead Product

By TechTaffy Desk

LogicMonitor has hired Taggart Matthiesen as its new chief product officer. In this role, Mr. Matthiesen will be responsible for overseeing product strategy for the company and their unified observability platform, LM Envision, including product management, user experience, and data science, according to the company.

Mr. Matthiesen joins LogicMonitor from Lyft, where he was vice president of Product. Prior to his time at Lyft, Mr. Matthiesen held product leadership positions at Twitter and Salesforce.

[Image courtesy: LogicMonitor]

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