Summary
Mike Piech is a seasoned technology and product executive with over two decades of experience driving multimillion- to multi-billion-dollar middleware, cloud, and data businesses from startups to Oracle and Red Hat. Currently VP of Business Development at Rigetti Computing, he’s shifted his focus from modernizing middleware to bringing quantum computing into practical use for high-impact problems. He led the transformation of JBoss from traditional middleware to cloud-native services—tripling revenue of a multi-hundred-million-dollar product line—and launched OpenShift Data Science to accelerate AI/ML adoption. Mike combines strategic M&A and go-to-market acumen with deep product marketing chops, having shepherded major acquisitions and platform pivots across his career. Based in San Francisco, he pairs an MIT CS background and an INSEAD MBA with a pragmatic, inclusive leadership style that scales teams and turns technical roadmaps into commercial outcomes. An unspoken strength is his pattern of translating legacy enterprise offerings into cloud-native, developer-friendly platforms that reignite growth.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, MBA at INSEAD
French, German, Russian, Spanish