Shape the offer
Build the service definition, packaging, pricing logic, sales story, and day-2 ownership model.
Enterprise Technology Leadership
Michael Meyer
I help enterprise organizations make infrastructure and managed-services change operational, with models leaders can fund, teams can deliver, and clients can trust.
20+ yearsEnterprise infrastructure, cloud services, managed operations, product strategy, and advisory leadership
12 casesWork across VMware exit planning, portfolio integration, observability, knowledge governance, intelligence platforms, and ventures
4 rolesProduct strategist, operating executive, advisor, and builder for complex technology businesses
CurrentVP of Product and Strategy at Summit (formerly Deft)
Executive Focus
Enterprise organizations bring me in when strategy has to become an operating model.
Modernize the platform
Help teams choose practical paths for virtualization, workload placement, Azure Arc, data center, and hybrid-cloud decisions.
Improve the decision
Create observability, knowledge, and intelligence systems that replace folklore with governed evidence.
Portfolio
Selected work across the handoffs that decide whether strategy works: sales, delivery, finance, operations, and client trust.
Hybrid cloud strategy
VMware Exit to Hyper-V + Azure Arc
A Summit platform strategy for clients who needed a credible VMware exit without disrupting private or multi-tenant cloud operations.
Product strategy
Unified Product Portfolio and GTM Motion
A Summit product strategy effort to unify acquisition-era offers across product definition, GTM, onboarding, and day-2 operations.
Intelligence platform
Valkaris
The Meyer Intelligence platform for tracking market movement, reviewing evidence, building briefs, and giving clients decision-ready dashboards.
Strategy and governance
Project Nessie
A managed-services data lake that made service performance, margin, platform, and account information usable for executive decisions.
Managed services transformation
Strategic Services Evolution
A managed-services strategy program that connected expert delivery teams with automation, governed data, and platform-led service design.
Knowledge systems
Centralized Knowledge Governance / SKMS
A service knowledge model for onboarding, compliance, delivery consistency, and safer AI-assisted operations.
AIOps and observability
Observability Transformation
A platform strategy for service health, incident response, automation, client reporting, and managed-services economics.
Venture building
Kyntenio
A Kentucky infrastructure venture that helped business buyers connect carrier, consulting, and data-center choices to real operating needs.
Executive intelligence
Meyer Intelligence
An executive intelligence practice built around Valkaris, decision briefs, watch maps, confidence notes, briefing trails, and a simple 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 gaps early.
Mobile safety product
Real Estate Agent Shield
A mobile safety product for real-estate professionals working alone with unfamiliar prospects and locations.
Family commerce
Mostyn's Oddbins
A father-daughter commerce project where sticker economics, fulfillment, IP exposure, and customer feedback became a practical business education.
Leadership Profile
Product and strategy executive for technology change that has to work commercially and operationally.
VP of Product and Strategy, Summit (formerly Deft)
Product strategy across data center, cloud, managed infrastructure, AI readiness, portfolio governance, and decision systems for modern IT operations.
Managed services product strategy and client solutions leadership, AHEAD
Managed-services strategy across client solutions, acquisition integration, AIOps, observability, knowledge systems, and enterprise account work.
HPE, Flexential, and Peak 10
Enterprise storage, data, cloud, colocation, national-account, and solution-architecture experience across 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 keeps the strategy honest.
Founder work makes the market answer back.
Kyntenio, CRI, Real Estate Agent Shield, Meyer Intelligence, and Mostyn’s Oddbins each began with a practical constraint: infrastructure buying, market language, field safety, executive briefing, or small-product commerce.
- Business use: Build a working offer, put it in front of buyers, and see what adoption requires.
- Proof: Product concepts, research systems, service offers, customer loops, pricing lessons, and direct market feedback.
- Carryover: Better judgment about when to build, how to package, and what buyers need before they act.
Writing shows whether the argument can travel without me in the room.
Solomon Assembly and The Lion in My House reflect a habit that carries into executive work: organize dense material, separate the core question from the noise, and make the conclusion usable.
- Business use: Reduce a complex idea to the decision, tradeoff, or action it requires.
- Proof: Books, study material, teaching work, and executive-style synthesis.
- Carryover: Clearer briefs, better case studies, and sharper judgment under pressure.
Service keeps leadership grounded in the people affected by the system.
Work with The Prisoner’s Hope, the Homeless Coalition of Southern Indiana, and Project Recovery So. IN keeps my operating lens close to consequences: employment, shelter, recovery, and the practical constraints people face inside systems they did not design.
- Business use: Start with the person affected, then trace the operating constraint.
- Proof: Mentorship, employer outreach, winter shelter support, recovery-community support, and volunteer web work.
- Carryover: More patient leadership, better listening, and a bias toward the next workable step.
Peer Evidence