Michael Gliedman

Michael Gliedman is the Director at Ranpak. Michael has also previously worked as the Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1999 to 2017. In this role, they were responsible for identifying and applying technologies to enhance the fan/customer/employee experience. Michael partnered with business leaders to understand their goals and bring technology to bear to solve problems.

Some of their key accomplishments include building ground-breaking fan-facing interactive products such as nba.com/stats and NBA League Pass Broadband International, creating a network infrastructure to power all content creation and distribution activities, and partnering with NBA business areas on multi-million dollar/year sponsorship deals. Additionally, they built the League’s first cyber-security program and attracted, developed and led a world-class team that could execute the vision globally.

Prior to their work at the NBA, Gliedman worked as an Operating Advisor at Littlejohn & Co from June 2018 to December 2019, advising portfolio companies on the strategic application of technology across consumer and industrial verticals. Michael has also worked at Blue Strat Advisors and One Madison Group.

Michael Gliedman earned a BA in Computer Science from Brandeis University and an MBA in Marketing from Columbia Business School.