Mike Kalmakis

We provide consumer insights driven by artificial intelligence and the world's largest archive of social media content

• Manage team of product managers crafting user facing & API features that leverage machine learning and other data analysis techniques to synthesize understanding from vast troves of text and image based content

- Lead quarterly roadmap planning & deliver updates to key customers, helping to increase logo retention by 10% in 2017

- Drive product-engineering org structure and resource investment decisions; increased feature delivery by 3x in 2016

- Oversaw introduction of machine vision capabilities & new API products, helping firm's 2017 revenue growth reach 30%

- Rebuilt infrastructure for public API data collection, increasing daily collection capacity by over 10x

• Partnerships director for premium data vendors and all inbound/outbound API integrations

- Manage company data budget, reduced expenses by 20% post-merger and increased daily post additions by 100MM

- Negotiated data contracts and product integrations with vendors including Twitter, Reddit, LexisNexis and FullContact

• Crimson Hexagon increased 2016-2018 CAGR to 25% prior to its merger with Brandwatch in October 2018

• Product owner of Spotify radio, a product offering 300MM+ customized datasets of musical content, updated daily

- Grew monthly radio users 81% via overhaul of product content mixes and UX/UI across iOS, Android and desktop apps

- Introduced personalization of content within playback streams, increasing time spent by 10% and daily users by 5%

- Performed analyses of A/B test results to facilitate continuous improvement of new and existing features

- Evaluated natural language processing algorithms & machine learning audio analysis used to create knowledge graph

• Sr. product manager at The Echo Nest; helped grow firm value from $80MM to the Spotify acquisition value of $125MM

• Managed the PMS Integrations product team, a group of product management and integration certification specialists
• General Manager & Product Designer of API / Web Services business which processed $1.73B in annual transactions

- Improved service uptime by 86% via strategic platform investment and targeted enhancements

- Authored new XML standard and oversaw infrastructure redesign, increasing system capacity by 7x

- Grew revenues 40% by doubling vendor network, restructuring pricing tiers & driving call center outreach campaigns

• Product lead for iHotelier reservation and distribution SaaS platform which generated $89MM in annual revenues
• Firm acquired in 2014 by Thoma Bravo for $930MM from Genstar & Bain Capital, a 3x increase over 2007 purchase price

• AOL VENTURES - Performed market research, built capitalization tables, and drafted briefs on potential investments
• BETTERFLY - Managed product team in a re-design of site offerings; devised new revenue generating strategies

• Managed all project work for two independent engineering teams representing over $2.1MM in annual resources
• Integrated web analytics & social features into sites with 50MM MAU; created Content Management System for 350+ sites

• Enhanced efficiency of the global supply chains used to digitize the world's largest collection of recorded music
• Increased throughput of audio & mobile streams by 210% via infrastructure projects across Europe, Asia & Americas
• Led offshore development of $1MM order management portal, delivering 3000 products to 400 partners per month