Rich Mironov is a serial entrepreneur, including as founder/CEO of a stealth start-up.  At earlier companies and consulting stints, he’s been VP Product Management/ VP Marketing, the go-to-market strategist and agile “product guy”.  Rich is a veteran of five tech start-ups and dozens of consulting engagements.  Since 2006, he’s provided full-time and interim consulting/mentoring to large and small technology companies.

Product Bytes is his long-running series on software, start-ups, product strategies, Silicon Valley, and the inner life of product managers.  It predates the first blogs, and goes out in newsletter format as well as social media.

Rich’s 2008 book, “The Art of Product Management” captures the best of Product Bytes from 2001 to 2008, and represents the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Rich served on the board of SVPMA, has taught in Haas’ executive education program, and chaired the product manager/ product owner track for Agile Alliance’s 2009 and 2010 conferences. He is an in-demand speaker for business, executive and technical audiences.

Rich founded the first P-Camp, now spreading around the country as Product Camps.  These semi-unstructured get-togethers provide product managers an opportunity to network, teach, learn and share.

Big and Small Company Experience

Rich earned his software stripes writing COBOL at HP, then spent six years at Tandem Computers, where he launched the company’s first TCP/IP stack. At Sybase, he oversaw database connectivity to more than 40 operating systems, and shipped the first commercial solution for dynamic linking of web pages with databases (web.sql).

He was the first “product guy” at four networking-related start-ups, including iPass (NASDAQ: IPAS) and AirMagnet (acquired by Flunk Networks) as VP Marketing/Product Management. Later, he was CMO of Enthiosys, an agile product management consultancy.  In 2010-11, he was co-founder/CEO of Suddenly Social, a social game infrastructure start-up.

Since 2001, Rich also has been an interim executive, consultant or adviser to dozens of early-stage companies and larger technology firms including Yahoo, Cisco, WhiteHat Security, Varian and VeriSign.

Rich has a BS Physics from Yale with a thesis on dinosaur extinction theories, and an MBA from Stanford.