Michael Verkruyse

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Over a decade of AI product development experience.
Led cross-functional teams at Google for AI solutions.
First named inventor on a patent for Explainable AI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and machine learning solutions.

Contact

mverkruyse@google.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Product Management

Other Skills

AI Sales EngineeringSolution ArchitectureGoogle Cloud Applied AIMulti-agent architectureAI workflowsGeminiConversational AIAI AgentsCustomer Experience SuiteAI DevelopmentGo-To-Market StrategyExplainable AIAI backend engineeringAI SolutionsMachine Learning

About

I've spent over a decade helping ideate, design, develop, and launch AI products and solutions from early stage startups to established players like Google. I've built and led cross-functional teams of consultants, analysts, product managers, engineers, and data scientists, and learned how to consistently deliver AI products and solutions that reach production and make real financial impact. I'm here to help you navigate the AI landscape and identify opportunities that can give your business a competitive edge.

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Head of Applied AI Customer Engineering, NorthAm Regions

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

I head our North American Applied AI Customer Engineering team, a group of AI Sales Engineers/Solution Architects/PMs/FDEs responsible for leading our strategic/enterprise customers in the adoption Google Cloud Applied AI technology.
Emphasis on Next Generation Agents leveraging multi-agent architecture, empowered by Gemini, multimodal inputs, RAG, and tool calling to create AI workflows and agentic systems that can run autonomously or enhance human capabilities.

AI Sales EngineeringSolution ArchitectureGoogle Cloud Applied AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product Management

Applied AI Solutions Lead - NorthAm

Mar 2024 – Feb 2025 · 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Working with Google Cloud's most strategic customers to find ways to bring practical AI into their organizations. Emphasis on Conversational AI, AI Agents, Customer Experience Suite, and RAG-style solutions.

Conversational AIAI AgentsCustomer Experience SuiteArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product Management

Data²

2 roles

Strategic Advisor

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 · 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

A founding leader responsible for both core AI development and strategic GTM execution for the Data2 product.
Technical Leadership: Engineered the core AI backend while serving as the First named inventor on the GraphRAG patent (US Patent Application No. 20250147957) which defined the platform's Explainable AI (xAI) positioning for enterprise use.
Product & Strategy: Led the engineering and product team, working directly with the CEO to set the GTM strategy, positioning, and product roadmap that successfully secured our first paid customers and angel/seed funding.

AI DevelopmentGo-To-Market StrategyExplainable AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product Management

Associated energy systems

VP of Sales/Marketing/Innovation

Jan 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Google

Customer Solutions (Strategic Accounts - Cloud/AI/ML)

Jan 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

In my role I work with Google's most strategic enterprise customers, and help them identify critical areas where leveraging Google Cloud and GCP's artificial intelligence and machine learning products could help them solve $5M to $250M+ problems
I serve as a customer subject matter expert for our natural language solutions, and run workshops for 100+ developers and business stakeholders
I've presented and demoed as a keynote speaker at the Google Seattle Summit, an event attended by 1,000+ CXO's, VP's, and technologists
I've demoed and explained machine vision and AutoML to 10,000+ attendees at Google Cloud's NEXT

AI SolutionsMachine LearningCustomer WorkshopsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product Management

Maana

2 roles

Director of AI/ML Solutions

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Promoted in September 2017
As one of the first 25 members of the Maana team, it was my job to consult with customers and identify strategic AI/ML solutions that could save them $10M+; as the company grew, the role evolved into managing and directing our customer-facing products, which included product management, consulting, analytics, data science, and engineering.
I built and served as the head of our EMEA headquarters in London, and developed a methodology to lead the product management, development, and deployment of over 10+ Knowledge Applications leveraging machine learning/artificial intelligence
Featured speaker to over 1,000 CXO's, SVP's, and VP's at CERAWeek
Published author of "Natural Language Processing Techniques on Oil and Gas Drilling Data" with the Society of Petroleum Engineers

AI/ML SolutionsCustomer ConsultingProduct ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Head of AI/ML Solution Consultants

Aug 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Learned how (and how not) to drive digital transformation by launching successful artificial intelligence/machine learning products as an early stage startup
Taught customers how different AI/ML approaches could address their problems, including:
Optimization
Classification
Entity Recognition/Extraction
Similarity Analysis
OCR/Machine Vision
Machine Translation

Digital TransformationAI/ML Product LaunchArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product Management