Mike is currently CEO of Ataccama, a leading Data Quality and Data Management helping organizations make better decisions, faster by leveraging all the data and AI at their disposal. Mike has been fortunate enough to work with great business leaders around the world over the past 20+ years in a variety of positions - CEO, President, General Manager, SVP of International Services, VP of Operations, Finance Director, Territory Sales Account Manager… - in companies ranging in size from 100 to 10,000 employees. While working at Dotmatics, Proofpoint, ObserveIT, Rapid7, and PTC, Mike has experienced the excitement, challenge, learning, fulfillment, heartache, and joy that comes from taking a company onwards and upwards from point A to point B and he sincerely hopes that these First Principles help others do the same.