Manuel Mattke leads the product development company Hydra Insight. Hydra works with companies of all sizes on developing product strategies for mobile and web products, and supports the development and launch process end-to-end. Hydra is also developing (and currently beta-testing) an innovation management platform for small and medium-size companies. Manuel founded and sold Apex Digital Systems, a custom software company, co-founded PicPocket Books, a publisher of children’s picture books to iPhone and iPad devices, and co-founded the Kingswood Group, a financial services company.