Michael Gale is the Chief Marketing Officer for EDB. He is based in Seattle, WA. Michael leads the brand, Go-to-Market marketing functions and strategic marketing direction as the company leads its own digital transformation and the digital transformation journeys of our customers. 

Michael is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the number one selling book on Digital Transformation, The Digital Helix and hosts the Futures in Focus podcast about the world of ten years from now, (on Forbes for four years). He is a Thinkers360 top 10 influencer for AI, and on sustainability technologies.

Prior to EDB, Michael was at Wind River as the CMO and led the company’s complete rebranding as it went from being an embedded software company to a leading intelligent systems company, which led to the company being sold to Aptiv for over $3bn. His team won the platinum dot.com marketing award for the intelligent systems campaign in 2022. He has founded and sold two marketing SaaS companies (Strategic Oxygen, PulsePoint) that were used to plan complex integrated marketing programs in the technology industry. He was a group Partner at Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and was the CWO at Micron when it became a top three internet e-commerce company. Michael holds a degree in economics and history from the UK.