Managed services and product strategy
Offer architecture, portfolio governance, acquisition integration, go-to-market, and day-2 delivery models for managed infrastructure and cloud services.
Strategic Work Portfolio
Michael Meyer
Technology and managed-services product executive for enterprises modernizing data centers, cloud operations, AI readiness, and decision systems.
20+ yearsHybrid infrastructure, managed services, product strategy, and advisory leadership
12 casesEnterprise work across cloud, data centers, AI, governance, ventures, and product
3 lensesAdvise, build, and run across complex technology change
CurrentVP of Product and Strategy at Summit (formerly Deft)
Executive Focus
Turning complex technology change into operating models teams can sell, deliver, and improve.
Hybrid cloud and data center modernization
Virtualization strategy, workload placement, Azure Arc, data center operations, and AI-ready infrastructure decisions grounded in cost, resilience, and supportability.
Executive intelligence
Observability, automation, knowledge governance, data platforms, and decision briefs that make service performance easier to run and easier to explain.
Portfolio
Case work across cloud, managed services, data, intelligence, and product systems.
Hybrid cloud strategy
VMware Exit to Hyper-V + Azure Arc
A Summit platform strategy that replaced VMware dependency with a Hyper-V and Azure Arc model for private and multi-tenant cloud offers.
Product strategy
Unified Product Portfolio and GTM Motion
A Summit product strategy effort that turned acquisition-era fragments into a unified portfolio, go-to-market path, onboarding model, and day-2 operating motion.
Intelligence platform
Valkaris
The real-time market intelligence platform behind Meyer Intelligence, built to turn public and proprietary signals into decision-grade views.
Strategy and governance
Project Nessie
A managed-services data lake that made service, financial, platform, and account information usable in executive operating rhythms.
Managed services transformation
Strategic Services Evolution
A managed-services strategy program that moved service evolution from expert labor toward data-driven, automated, platform-led delivery.
Knowledge systems
Centralized Knowledge Governance / SKMS
A service knowledge management model built to improve onboarding, compliance, delivery consistency, and AI-ready operations.
AIOps and observability
Observability Transformation
A platform strategy that moved observability beyond monitoring toward automation, service health, and managed-services value.
Venture building
Kyntenio
A Kentucky infrastructure venture connecting business buyers with carrier, consulting, and data-center expertise.
Executive intelligence
Meyer Intelligence
An executive intelligence practice built around Valkaris, decision briefs, watch maps, confidence notes, briefing trails, and the promise: Know earlier. Decide better.
Research venture
Conversation Research Institute
A research venture that used public conversation to find market language, unmet needs, and positioning opportunities before formal research would catch them.
Mobile safety product
Real Estate Agent Shield
A mobile safety product for real-estate professionals that converted field-risk moments into fast emergency workflows.
Family commerce
Mostyn's Oddbins
A father-daughter commerce project that turned sticker economics, fulfillment, IP exposure, and customer feedback into a practical business education.
Leadership Profile
Operator who can move from boardroom problem to delivery system.
VP of Product and Strategy, Summit (formerly Deft)
Product strategy leadership across data center, cloud, managed infrastructure, AI readiness, portfolio governance, and the client trust systems behind modern IT decisions.
Managed services product strategy and client solutions leadership, AHEAD
Managed-services strategy, governance frameworks, acquisition integration, AIOps, observability, knowledge systems, and client-solution motions across enterprise accounts.
HPE, Flexential, and Peak 10
Storage, data, cloud, colocation, national-account, and solution-architecture work across enterprise infrastructure and service delivery.
Business training, technical depth, and writing discipline
BS in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, early CS and English studies at the University of Kentucky, and a long-running practice of writing, teaching, and community service.
Ventures, Writing, Community
Independent work sharpens how I test markets, explain complexity, and build trust.
Founder work turns market pain into proof.
Kyntenio, CRI, Real Estate Agent Shield, Meyer Intelligence, and Mostyn’s Oddbins each tested a specific adoption question: who feels the problem, what would they trust, and what would they pay attention to?
- Move: Turn the observed pain into a working offer, prototype, report, or service.
- Evidence: Product concepts, research systems, service offers, direct customer loops, and pricing lessons.
- Transfer: Sharper judgment about timing, packaging, trust, and adoption risk.
Writing tests whether the argument is clear enough to travel.
Solomon Assembly and The Lion in My House reflect a long-running practice: structure dense material, expose the decision it asks of the reader, and make the point useful without flattening it.
- Move: Reduce a complex idea to the decision, tradeoff, or action it requires.
- Evidence: Books, study material, teaching work, and executive-style synthesis.
- Transfer: Stronger executive briefs, clearer case studies, and cleaner judgment under pressure.
Service keeps leadership tied to human constraints.
Ongoing service with The Prisoner’s Hope, the Homeless Coalition of Southern Indiana, and Project Recovery So. IN keeps the work connected to people facing constraints no operating model can abstract away.
- Move: Start with the person affected by the system, then work back to the practical constraint.
- Evidence: Mentorship, employer outreach, winter shelter support, recovery-community support, and volunteer web work.
- Transfer: More patient leadership, better listening, and a stronger bias toward the next workable step.
Peer Evidence