Momchil Kyurkchiev is a leading expert in multi-channel customer engagement and the co-founder and CPO of Leanplum, a startup headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in New York, Denver, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Sofia. Prior to leading product, Momchil served as the CEO at Leanplum for 8 years where he scaled the company to 100+ employees and raised $98M in funding from top-tier VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. Momchil has been awarded Founder of the Year by Central European Startup Awards, was on the cover of Forbes Magazine Bulgaria, and has appeared on Bloomberg TV, bTV and TEDx. Under his leadership, Leanplum has been ranked a Top 3 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area.
Prior to Leanplum, Momchil was a senior software engineer at Google where he launched multiple quality improvements to YouTube’s ranking algorithms. He built some of the core A/B testing infrastructure for featured video and delivered millions of dollars in additional revenue.
Momchil has a M.S. in Software Engineering & Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Computational Science from State University of New York at Brockport.