Melese Michael

Melese Michael has over 10 years of experience in product marketing and executive roles. In 2022, they began working as a Product Marketing Manager at GitKraken. Prior to this, they were the Founder and Principal UXUI Designer at GuacApps from 2016-2020. From 2020-2021, they were the Chief Product Officer at Brackit. In 2017, they began working at SquadPod as a Chief Product Manager and Product Manager, where they developed front- and back-end functionality requirements for the platform and operated with marketing teams to field customer test sessions, use-cases, user-diaries, and provide supporting data to the development team. From 2016-2017, they were the Director of Marketing at AgileField, where they worked across executive sales and marketing teams to identify and implement Master Positioning Document and Marketing roadmaps. From 2012-2016, they were the Chief Executive Officer at emoteShare. From 2010-2012, they were the Chief Executive Officer at Uprophecy, where they developed a social networking platform built for sharing nightly dreams and architected a proprietary method for quantifying dreams and associated human emotional data. From 2009-2010, they were the Chief Executive Officer at Nterxon Technologies, where they led a team of 6 UC Berkeley students to develop a revolutionary tactical combat helmet. In 2009, they were the Director of Product Marketing at the Tiffany Attwood Congressional Campaign, where they developed and analyzed data on the candidate via social media and constituent analytics. Melese also worked as the Director of Product Marketing at Contra Costa County in 2010.

Melese Michael attended Diablo Valley College from 2008 to 2014, studying Business Psychology. Prior to that, they obtained their High School Diploma from Monte Vista High School in 2007, where they studied Business and Economics. Melese also obtained two certifications from Google in December 2015, for Google Display Advertising and Google Mobile Advertising.