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Mike Hopkin

Fractional Chief Product Officer | 0-to-1 Product & Team Building | Healthcare, AI & B2B SaaS | 20+

About Me

I'm a product and technology executive with 20+ years building and scaling product organizations across healthcare, AI platforms, B2B and B2C SaaS, automotive, life sciences, and education. I step into companies with unclear product direction and build the strategy, team, and operating discipline needed to move forward, often starting with no team and no roadmap. At Plexus, a $650M health products company, I built a product organization from zero and delivered an award-winning platform in 8 months. At Highmark Health, I guided 5 product teams through digital transformation and drove a 32% efficiency improvement. I'm genuinely AI-native: I use Claude Code and Cursor daily to build and ship, not just advise. Clients engage me to: - Build product strategy and roadmaps from the ground up - Stand up product operating models and hire the right team - Navigate regulated industries, including HIPAA and payer data - Bring AI-native practices into how a product team actually works - Advise CEOs and boards on product-market fit and growth I'm available for fractional and interim engagements, remote or hybrid.

Jurisdiction

United States

Notable Employer

  • Director of Product Management at Cayuse

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Founder & CEOHopkin Profit Creation
2024 - Present

Advise CEOs and executive teams on product strategy, revenue growth, and technology adoption, often stepping in to bring operating discipline to organizations without it. One client achieved a $1M ARR increase through strategic product and technology decisions. As Senior Advisor at BairesDev, use Claude Code and Cursor daily to build AI-powered tools, staying genuinely hands-on with the technology I advise clients to adopt.

Founder & Principal ConsultantHopkin Creations, LLC
2015 - 2024

Fractional and interim product leadership for clients across healthcare, life sciences, automotive, enterprise software, and education. At Plexus, a $650M health products company, stepped in as Interim Head of Product with no team and no roadmap, built the product organization from zero, and delivered an award-winning platform in 8 months. At Highmark Health, a major health insurance payer, led digital transformation across 5 product teams, building governance frameworks that balanced innovation with HIPAA and PHI compliance and drove a 32% efficiency improvement. At Viridian Sciences, led the product and engineering team, building organization structure and roadmap discipline from the ground up. Additional engagements with Cox Automotive, Adobe, and Edgenuity spanned product and platform strategy consulting.

Director of Product ManagementNotableCayuse
2022 - 2023

Dates: 2022 - 2023 Description: Worked hands-on with engineering daily on architecture, APIs, and platform design for an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform serving regulated research institutions, universities, and government clients. Led a team of 7 and owned P&L. Built the product operating model from scratch, including discovery cadences and outcome metrics, and drove $1M in ARR growth through disciplined, ruthless prioritization.

Education

Masters of Information SystemsBrigham Young University
1994 - 1996
Degree of AccountingBrigham Young University
1991 - 1994

Certification

Total Certifications3

Level III Certified (PMC III)

Pragmatic Institute

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Certified Profit Coach

ProGlobal

Skills

Core skills10
Interests8
Languages2

Skills

Fractional CPO
0-to-1 Product Strategy
Product Operating Models
Healthcare & HIPAA Compliance
AI-Native Product Development
API & Platform Architecture
Interim Product Leadership
P&L Ownership
Team Building & Hiring
Go-to-Market Strategy

Interests

AI-Native Organizations
Healthcare Technology
Executive Coaching
Jobs-to-Be-Done
Regulated Industry Product
Startup Turnarounds
Product-Led Growth
Mentoring Product Managers

Languages

English
Spanish