Mike Kalmakis

Mike Kalmakis is the current VP of Product at True Fit. Prior to joining True Fit, Mike spent three years at Brandwatch as the Senior Director of Product Management. In this role, Mike led a team of product managers in the creation of features that leverage machine learning & deep learning, and other data analysis techniques, to synthesize understanding of text and image based content.

Under Mike's leadership, the team was able to increase feature throughput by 3x with the introduction of a Spotify-like "squad" structure. Additionally, Mike was responsible for driving product-engineering organizational structure and resource investment decisions, as well as increasing the content library to over 1.5 Trillion posts - with 500M daily additions.

Before Brandwatch, Mike spent time at Crimson Hexagon where they provided top brands and technology companies consumer insights driven by artificial intelligence and the world’s largest archive of social media content. Some notable accomplishments during their time at Crimson Hexagon include co-development of content insight features with partners at Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr; as well as coding new feature prototypes and performing internal data analysis using Python, SQL, & Redis.

Mike Kalmakis has a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. Mike also has a Master of Business Administration - MBA with specializations in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Marketing, and Entertainment, Media, & Technology from New York University. In addition, they have a certification from Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Mike Kalmakis reports to Bill Adler, CEO, President & Board Director. They work with Jessica Murphy - Co-Founder & COO, Sarah Curran-usher - Managing Director, EMEA, and Raj Chandrasekaran - CTO.