Summary
Ben Meadowcroft is a seasoned product leader with 12 years of experience building and revitalizing software products across storage, data management, and security domains. Currently Director of Product Management at Mimic, he focuses on hardening applications against AI-enabled threats and safely enabling AI, drawing on deep experience leading core database and backup/recovery products at PingCAP and Rubrik. He has a strong engineering foundation from roles in software development and systems engineering and pairs that with an MBA in Marketing to translate customer insights into commercially successful roadmaps. Ben’s track record includes launching platform-level capabilities—Kubernetes support, managed database targets, and threat containment features—that expanded market reach and enterprise resilience. He is comfortable bridging low-level technical complexity and executive strategy, having driven cross-functional teams through product pivots and large-scale integrations. Based in California, he combines hands-on product craftsmanship with a pragmatic security-first mindset that’s increasingly rare in product leaders.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Software Engineering, MEng, Software Engineering at The University of Manchester
MBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at Brigham Young University