AI AND Digital marketing author, speaker, & consultant
mike Moran
Whether speaking worldwide on digital marketing, advising major companies on integrating AI, or educating a small classroom on web analytics—Mike Moran is an expert with a personal approach. Author or co-author of three books on digital marketing; Outside-In Marketing, Do It Wrong Quickly, and the best-selling Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Mike led many initiatives on IBM’s website for eight years, including IBM’s original search marketing strategy. Holder of 13 patents, Mike has worked in digital marketing for 25 years and in AI for 40. In addition to his consulting work through the Mike Moran Group, Mike also serves as a senior strategist at geofencing and SEO agency Shared Audiences and is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at ThinkStream, an Ai virtual assistant that makes you more effective, not just more efficient,
Mike designed groundbreaking software using machine learning and natural language processing, as the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of SoloSegment for eight years. The patented software, powered by AI, predicted user behavior and suggested pathways for successful conversion for several Fortune 500 companies.
For 17 years, Mike served 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.
Mike holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing, and is an adjunct instructor for Rutgers University and the University of California-Irvine. Mike keynotes conferences worldwide on digital marketing for marketers, public relations specialists, market researchers, product managers, and technologists.
Previously, Mike worked for IBM for 30 years, rising to the level of Distinguished Engineer. 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 search and retrieval technology. He led the integration of ibm.com’s site search technologies and served as product manager for IBM’s search and text analytics products.

