Summary
Michael Kaplun is a strategy and transformation executive with a technical engineering background and a decade of leadership experience driving product-led growth and data monetization across media, high tech, fintech and healthcare. He has managed P&L from seed-stage ventures to a $1bn recurring-revenue business at Gartner, launching multiple products and delivering sustained portfolio growth. Skilled at translating complex technical and commercial problems into pragmatic prototypes and GTM motions, he has built fintech products, unified SaaS data platforms, and go-to-market playbooks that scale. Based in Beverly Hills, he advises teams on problem definition and generative AI strategy while blending hands-on product work with board-level strategy—an uncommon mix rooted in advanced engineering training from Columbia and Carnegie Mellon.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (ABD) Mechanical Engineering, PhD (ABD) Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University
BS Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Russian, Spanish