Michael is the Chief Product Officer at Dribbble. At Dribbble he oversees all product, design, data and engineering initiatives across their suite of brands including Creative Market, Fontspring & Font Squirrel. He has led growth initiatives across Dribbble's 6 business lines that include a platform transition of Creative Market from transactional to subscription, developed a native ad unit on Dribbble that 10x'd advertising revenue, and built Dribbble Education to a multi-million dollar business line in under two years. He started his career 15 years ago as a Product Designer, eventually founding a cutting-edge product agency that built applications for Scholastic, GE, Nike, Siemens, Kobe Bryant and more. He founded the design asset management software, Brandisty, which was acquired in 2014 and is now owned by InVision. He was the President at Crew, the freelance design and development marketplace, and former parent company of Unsplash, the popular stock photo website. At Crew he secured key partnerships with Squarespace and the BDC before leading the company through it's acquisition by Dribbble in 2017. His writing has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and his popular product management podcast has been written about in Inc, Forbes, The Huffington Post and Entrepreneur respectively. Michael served on the board of AIGA in Las Vegas and taught web design as a Professor at the Art Institute. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC with his wife and two young boys.