Michael Svatek Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Currently lead Cart.com's global innovation functions including product, engineering, cloud operations, and strategic internal systems in a CPTO capacity. Also leading Cart's Software Business Unit in a GM capacity directing all business functions including sales, marketing, implementation, services, and support across 4 software product lines and 17,000 ecommerce brands and retailers. Member of early leadership team driving business valuation from $100M to $1B+ in 2 years.

Houston, Tx, Us

Joined Cart.com to establish the Product function including product design, product management, product marketing, and product operations for Cart.com's suite of products.

Austin, Tx, Us

A project at the intersection of automotive, blockchain, community, and marketplace.

Austin, Tx, Us

I co-founded Rivet and lead as our CEO and Head of Product. Our cloud software platform powered direct-to-consumer engagement for online retailers, product brands, and travel & leisure brands. The solution integrated into our customers' online transaction platforms to capture, manage, personalize, and syndicate consumer-generated content to drive increased sales, influencing US $225 billion annually in online and ROBO (research online buy offline) transactions. The e-commerce business was acquired in 2020 by leading a leading ecommerce SAAS provider backed by private equity* Led the company from napkin-sketch business to a profitable, multi-million dollar recurring revenue business* Signed 1000+ enterprise, mid-market, and emerging retailers and brands including Daimler, TGI Fridays, Whole Foods, Asurion, T-Mobile, Viking Cruise Lines, and others.* Built executive team that lead their day-to-day business as well as long-range vision for their functions* Recruited and our Board of Directors as well as our Advisory Team, served as Chairman* Built partnerships with leading commerce platforms including Shopify and BigCommerce enabling us to creating our own proprietary merchant content network* Led product vision and architecture to deliver highly-differentiated value proposition that is efficient and effective at producing measurable gains for our customers

Austin, Texas, Us

* Led the product, design, and labs functions as the business scaled revenues from $10M to $200M+ and IPO (NASDAQ: BV)* Led vision and implementation of product to scale across 100 billion monthly transactions across top 3000 global retailers representing more than $2 trillion in global retail revenues* Grew product team to more than 90 employees spanning product management, user experience research, product design, product operations, and sales engineering directing the work of more than 500 FTEs in R&D* Managed distributed product and R&D teams in Austin, London, San Francisco, and New York* Created and scaled Bazaarvoice Labs, a first-of-its-kind for-profit technology incubator designed to augment retailer’s innovation agenda; clients included Walmart, Best Buy, Intuit, P&G, Unilever, Ford Motor Company, and more* Led long-range product and market strategy for $1B+ market cap public SAAS business* Identified growth markets with 5-year market outlook to drive revenues from $250M-$1B* Led M&A team, analyzing more than 1000 opportunities for acquisition or investment, resulting in two acquisitions worth $200M+ in aggregate deal value and 15 strategic partnerships* Built and lead technical alliances team, maintaining and growing go-to-market revenue and relationships with key partners including Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, and Adobe

Austin, Texas, Us

* Led team of product managers, establishing framework, methods, and vision that would direct innovation for the next 5 years during hypergrowth* Partnered with VP/C-level staff to align and execute growth plans* Established company's customer advisory board consisting of global businesses in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific* Travelled globally in support of sales team, strategic accounts, product training, and customer summits* Managed P&L and FP&A

San Jose, Ca, Us

Baynote offered a machine learning cloud software platform that created-highly personalized shopping experiences for shoppers on retail websites. Our customers included top 500 retailers in the US and Europe. During my time we scaled to hundreds of companies in across North America. The business was acquired in 2016 by Vista Equity and became part of Kibo Commerce.* Led long-range vision or product, evolving from algorithms to product platform to industry movement* Established market leadership position as #1 or #2 provider of ecommerce personalization capabilities for product recommendations and search augmentation* Built and scaled corporate marketing and demand generation teams

San Jose, Ca, Us

* Commercialized scientific research and algorithms as a viable software product for enterprises* Launched company out of stealth mode via a high-touch PR strategy and full suite of digital marketing strategies* Established and led industry analyst relationships including Gartner, Forrester, 451 Group, and more, resulting in Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave placement for the business* Built product management and design teams

San Jose, California, Us

Industry’s first and market-leading Web Content Management Platform, bringing businesses online in the early phase on the commercial internet. IPO Nasdaq: IWOV. Subsequently acquired by Autonomy (AUTN) / Hewlett Packard (HPE) / OpenText (OTEX).Responsible for the product roadmap and technology vision for the core content management platform (TeamSite) that represented more than $150 million in annual revenue as well as a machine learning platform that performed automated information categorization, summarization, and taxonomy construction for very large document sets for customers such as Boeing. * Responsible for the product marketing and technology vision for the core content management platform (TeamSite)* Established roadmap, pricing, packaging, and competitive defenses* Lead sales enablement, customer success training, and industry analyst relations for these product lines* Extensive global travel in support of key customer accounts such as Phillips, Telenor, British Airways, BBC, HSBC, BMW, Deutsche Telecom, and others

San Jose, California, Us

* Lead the roadmap and feature definition for the website authoring tools for Interwoven's core content management platform (TeamSite Templating) * Responsible for integrating, then leading, an acquired AI/machine learning platform product line that performed automated information categorization and taxonomy construction for large document sets for customers such as Boeing, 3M, and Blue Cross Blue Shield* Worked with top-tier customers to establish roadmap, vision, and use cases* Established positioning, pricing, packaging, and competitive defenses* Lead sales enablement training, customer success training, and industry analyst relations for these product lines

San Jose, Ca, Us

* Unix software developer (Java, J2EE, C++, CORBA, Perl, Oracle, MySQL)* Microsoft software developer (Visual Basic, SQL Server, ASP, ASP.net, VBA, Visual Studio)* Implemented Cisco.com's global content management platform including more than 100 extranets and subdomains, spanning more than 150 countries, 30 languages, and 1,000,000 pages, apps, and documents * Designed, built, implemented and supported content and code distribution framework to deploy code and content in a transactional manner utilizing Interwoven OpenDeploy* Designed, built, and implemented time tracking systems to enable senior management to manage contractor time and billing

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* Microsoft software developer (intern)* Designed, built, deployed various Visual Basic applications to enable Exxon Computing Corporation to streamline internal processes in support of oil & gas exploration, extraction, refining, and distribution.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Web development intern (Javascript, CGI, MySQL, Verity Search)* Designed and built the first online library for Dell's intranet including navigation, search and retrieval functions, and user requests for physical checkout.* Implemented high-speed OCR techniques to facilitate the scanning of tens of thousands of pages of information for core systems such as DOMS (Dell Order Management System)* Collaborated with Dell Premier Pages team to enhance features and performance of custom websites for Dell's largest global customers.

Mba, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Finance

Bba, Management Information Systems

Music Education And Jazz Studies