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To Hiring Committee:

It is my distinct pleasure to recommend Marcus Chen for any position or program he pursues. I have known Marcus Chen as a former employee and directly supervised Marcus for three years while he served as a Senior Product Manager on the platform team, where he led a cross-functional group of eight engineers and designers.

Among his many strengths, three stand out most clearly:

1. Strategic thinking. He rebuilt our onboarding funnel from first principles, which lifted activation by 34% in a single quarter.
2. Calm, decisive leadership. When our largest customer escalated a critical bug the night before launch, he coordinated the fix with three time zones and shipped the patch before the SLA window closed.
3. Genuine care for his team. Two of his direct reports were promoted under his mentorship, and every single person on his team cited him as their reason for staying through a difficult reorg.

Marcus combines sharp analytical judgment with unusual emotional intelligence. He is the kind of leader who can walk into an ambiguous problem, find the signal inside the noise within days, and then bring an entire organization along with him. In a field that often rewards volume over clarity, he is consistently the most thoughtful voice in the room.

I recommend Marcus Chen without reservation. He would be an exceptional addition to any team lucky enough to have him, and I fully expect him to be running his own organization within a few short years.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if I can answer any further questions about Marcus or his work.

Sincerely,

Dr. Priya Shah

Vice President of Product