Brendan McCook is the Head of Product Marketing at Miro, the intelligent canvas where tens of millions of people and their AI agents think, plan, and build together.

Brendan has spent his career chasing one question: how do people and systems actually work together to make good decisions? It's a thread that runs from the start of his career in the engine room of a nuclear submarine to the tech industry, where he's helped companies from high-growth startups to publicly traded market leaders evolve their ways of working to unlock growth. What he's found again and again is that the hard part is rarely the technology, it's the messy, human work of getting a team to a smart decision and aligned behind it.

Brendan has held a range of strategic operator roles from Management Consultant at Bain & Company, to Head of Product Development at Reforge, to Head of Strategic Programs at Okta. Still, he's an engineer at heart, an instinct that took hold as an Electrical Engineering major at Yale and sharpened as a graduate student at MIT. Maybe it's the former championship collegiate rower in him, but what still draws him in is the gap between teams that merely move fast and teams that move fast together, the idea at the heart of today's talk.

Brendan lives in the Washington, DC area and spends his free time playing Disney piano songs (somewhat poorly) for his two kids.