Dan Chuparkoff

A.I. & Innovation Keynote Speaker, CEO at DanChuparkoff.com

2019 - Current

Dan Chuparkoff is one of the world’s leading experts on AI, innovation, & the future of work. As a technology leader at Google, McKinsey and more; Dan built, led, and reinvented global teams who built products for BILLIONS of customers. Dan knows first hand that the people who leverage the power of technology will outperform the people who don’t. The Technology-speaker for non-tech teams, Dan’s superpower is making complex things simple and useful. With his skill as an AI-educator combined with his formula for harnessing the power of innovation, he’s helped teams in every industry to escape disruption and find growth and success. Dan shows teams how to make sense of AI, how to harness the Power of Technology, and how to combine that with the Power of Human Expertise. With this powerful blend, teams will learn to leverage AI & other technological advantages to thrive in the exponential future ahead.

A.I. & Innovation Keynote Speaker, Former Innovation Expert from Google, McKinsey, & Atlassian

2012

Limited Partner

2018 - 2023

After years of innovation experience inside of both Startups and Enterprises, I've finally taken the plunge and am putting my Venture Capital hat on (...in addition to my Product Leader @Google hat, and my Innovation Speaker hat...). After a lot of investigation with various funds and firms, I've decided to partner with an early-stage venture firm called Muditā Venture Partners. Muditā partners with visionary entrepreneurs to accelerate growth, dodge risk, and achieve jaw-dropping results. It's a non-traditional gang of proven entrepreneurs with a unique approach to seizing opportunity and to driving innovation!

Group Product Manager, Mobile Developer Tools & Services

2021 - 2023

I led Product for the Quality & Performance products within Android Studio and across the Firebase platform. This includes Android Studio Quality Insights, Android Studio Device Streaming, Crashlytics, Firebase Performance Monitor, App Distribution, and more. Firebase is an app development platform that helps you build and grow the apps and games users love. It's backed by the power of Google and trusted by hundreds of millions of app developers all around the world.

Associate Partner / Director of Product, McKinsey New Ventures Incubator

2017 - 2021

I lead Product for the ClienTech Cross-Practice Innovation Team at McKinsey & Company. We are tackling some of the world's biggest problems using the latest in BI-automation, data analytics, data science, and technology-driven solutions. The products that my teams build empower McKinsey & Company Practices for every vertical as they partner with the world’s largest organizations to drive change and impact at a global scale. As a hands-on product manager, I built the Healthcare practice’s first comprehensive, interactive healthcare insights application and a product to drive the HIPAA-complient, Business Intelligence automation. As a leader, I am mentor to product managers and their corresponding scrum teams across the Firm. I am leading an engineering-modernization initiative, driving dramatic improvements in prioritization and visibility to work, adaptability, modularization, reuse of code, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and quality.

VP of Product Management

2015 - 2016

Vice President of the Product team – leader of the product management, design, and product marketing teams as they work from conception to delivery on building the Civis Analytics suite of SaaS data science software products. • Hands-on leader responsible for building a multi-disciplinary Product team of nine from the ground up • Led Product Management and built the Civis data science platform, the Civis Media Optimizer, & the Civis Social Listening products • Unified fragmented streams of development into a cohesive product vision and articulated that vision for the team during Series B financing conversations • Brought product roadmapping, collaborative and adaptive prioritization, and transparency of task assignment & completion to the company resulting in a clear 18 month plan for the company going forward ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: Civis Analytics is the Eric Schmidt-backed data science startup working to wrap industry-leading data science practices & algorithms into easy-to-use problem solving software applications for organizations in every vertical. We help our customers leverage data to develop smarter strategy, make better decisions, and build stronger, data-driven organizations.

Director of Product Growth

2014 - 2015

Director of the Product Management & Growth team – leader of end-to-end roadmap management, UI/UX design, data science, web development, content creation, engagement & demand generation • Employee #13, U.S. employee #2, hands-on leader, & wearer of many hats. Built out the US HQ and delivered the BigPanda product to the 1.0 launch • Built the product management, design, growth-hacking, and marketing teams from scratch • Met with VC partners & board members quarterly. Managed & communicated the product roadmap and architected BigPanda’s differentiating value proposition ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: BigPanda is a SequoiaCapital- backed, series-A startup reinventing DevOps incident management and APM (application performance monitoring) for modern Ops teams. Group related alerts into high-level incidents. Turn 4000 alerts per day and wakeup-calls in the middle of the night, into an organized, actionable, alert information center – all of your alerts from all of your business critical systems aggregated into a single place, and updated in real time.

Group Manager, JIRA Product Family

2012 - 2014

Group manager for the JIRA product family – responsible for product roadmap, product evangelism, demand generation, & go-to-market planning/execution • A featured speaker on development at conferences from Austin to Zurich including Gartner Application Architecture Integration (AADI), Agile & Beyond, and South by Southwest (SXSW) • Grew product bookings 81.6% from $18 million/qtr to $33 million/qtr with inventive/measurable product marketing tactics • Led the team during a revamp of the product as well as for the release of a new Service Desk product. • Grew unique JIRA.com visits from 350k to 900k per quarter by improving product messaging, building a strong event presence, and radically-improving search engine optimization (SEO) ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: Atlassian is an emerging tech giant and the maker of JIRA the world’s leading issue tracker and agile project management system. It’s software for teams who make software: LinkedIn, Square, NASA, Orbitz, Tesla, and Twitter – just to name just a few!

Director of Product Management

2011 - 2012

Director responsible for product management and agile project management of TMP’s recruitment software products encompassing the entire suite of web, mobile, and social products on the roadmap • Created innovative products powering the careers sites of more than 50% of the Fortune 500 • Led the Agile transformation of the TMP product and dev teams and cut speed-to-market by 300% • Exponentially revamped the specification process resulting in a 10x reduction in post launch issues • Improved innovation-time dramatically by implementing JIRA Agile for work management ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: TMP’s TalentBrew software automates and enhances career sites for the Fortune500 and other large companies. When you search for jobs, you’re probably using it.

Director of Digital Product Delivery

2010 - 2011

Production director responsible for end-to-end execution of all software delivery including product management, project management, development-vendor management. • Led the development of web, mobile, social, and loyalty programs including McDonald’s Monopoly – the most popular promotion in the world which garnered 70 million online plays in just 40 days. • Managed all digital vendor relationships, onboarding 2 new vendors, ultimately producing 100% of our work as promised while optimizing the digital budget ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: The Marketing Store is the digital agency of record for McDonald’s. If you’ve played the McDonald’s Monopoly game and were hoping to get Boardwalk, then you’re familiar with our work.

Director of Product Development & Employee of the Year (2009)

2005 - 2010

Software production director for $50 million in website development annually for the nation's most recognized brands: Coca-cola, Microsoft, Gap, and hundreds more. Ensured optimized-completion of more than 100 web development projects every month using overlapping project teams. • Improved on-time delivery from 83% to 99.8% by developing a custom capacity system, an earned value system, and a profitability management system to ensure consistent software delivery • Led the development of a product enabling the fully-automated creation of online promotions • Led the strategy and prioritization of features on the product roadmap and brought them to life by leading agile development to ensure on-time delivery and rapid growth of the product ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: HelloWorld builds interactive content so brands can engage directly with their customers. HelloWorld specializes in the highly-efficient production of loyalty software, promotional games, contests, social engagement and mobile apps.