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Andrea Michalek is a proven and passionate executive with 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, AI, 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. Throughout her career, she has founded multiple companies and consulted for dozens of early-stage companies - many of whom went on to successfully exit. She has also successfully worked as a cross-functional leader at large, global corporations. Andrea now is an executive coach and interim CTO/CPO, helping startups and scale-ups launch new products, build their product strategy, and hone their leadership skills.