Mike Moran

Mike Moran is an expert in digital marketing, search technology, artificial intelligence, and marketing analytics. He is a Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®) and recognized keynote speaker worldwide.

Mike is an independent consultant and President of Mike Moran Group and co-founder and Chief Product Officer at ThinkStream, an AI virtual assistant that makes busy people more effective, not just more efficient.

Until 2025, Mike served for 17 years as Senior Strategist at Converseon, an AI-powered social listening company, designing their original natural language processing and machine learning software and hiring their original AI team, while later serving as trusted advisor to the CEO.

Until 2022, Mike served for eight years as the Chief Product Officer for SoloSegment, martech software company whose patented customer experience analytics automatically increased engagement and conversions for B2B websites by improving site search and content recommendation.

Previously, Mike spent 30 years at IBM, rising to Distinguished Engineer, an executive-level technical position. Mike has more than 30 years’ experience in search technology, led the IBM product team that developed the first commercial linguistic search engine in 1989, and has been granted 13 patents in artificial intelligence, analytics, and search and retrieval technology. He led the integration of ibm.com's site search technologies and served as product manager for IBM's commercial search and text analytics products.