Andrea Michalek is a proven and passionate executive with over 25 years' experience developing software, building and leading technology and product teams, and launching companies. She thrives on marrying new technology and innovative products with rapid commercial growth opportunities. Andrea is fluent in a wide range of modern technologies including search and discovery, natural language processing, data mining, analytics and machine-driven information harvesting. She is a frequent speaker about metrics, entrepreneurship, product management, and women in tech. Her last startup was Plum Analytics, where she was CEO. She co-founded Plum Analytics in 2012, and it was acquired by EBSCO in less than 2 years. Plum was then acquired by Elsevier in 2017. Andrea served as the VP of Research Metrics in product management while at Elsevier. She worked as a cross-functional leader to modernize measurements of research impact across Elsevier's suite of research product tools and scholarly publishing platforms. Andrea now is an executive coach and fractional CTO/CPO, helping startups and scale-ups launch new products and hone their leadership skills.