Rich Mironov

Rich Mironov: Product Management Thought Leader and Advisor

Rich Mironov is a seasoned tech executive, serial entrepreneur, and product management expert. He has served as the "product guy" at six startups, including as CEO and Chief Product Officer (CPO) or VP Product Management.145

Mironov is the CEO of Mironov Consulting, where he provides the following services3:

• Coaching and mentoring for product leaders
• Client-side search success for CPO/VP Product roles
• Product due diligence for investors
• Organizational assessments of product management groups

He has consulted to over 200 tech companies and heads of product on topics like product leadership, organizing the product organization, scaling up, and tackling specific product/company issues.5

Mironov is a prolific blogger, speaker, teacher and mentor on software strategy, product management, and aligning "what-we-can-build" with "what-markets-will-pay-for".15 He founded the first Product Camp and chaired the first product owner/product manager tracks at the annual Agile Conference.5

He has an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in physics from Yale University.25 Mironov started his career as a software engineer at HP, then held product roles at Tandem Computers, Sybase, and several startups.45