Bumble Inc. announced the appointment of Michael Affronti to Chief Product Officer (CPO). In this key executive leadership position, Michael will oversee innovation and user experience across the Company?s product portfolio and will lead the Product, Safety, Research and Customer Care teams. His appointment is effective immediately. Michael comes to Bumble Inc. from Salesforce, where he served as SVP and General Manager of Commerce Cloud.
In that role, he led Salesforce?s multi-billion-dollar global e-commerce business to success, driving innovation and operational scale for businesses serving more than two billion consumers around the globe annually. He previously built product-led growth offerings leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning as SVP of Product at Dataminr and Fuze. Earlier in his career, Michael spent a decade at Microsoft, where he contributed to the product development and strategy of marquee consumer and business applications, including Office and Outlook, which serve more than half a billion global users.
Michael will assume the product leadership responsibilities of former CPO, Ali Rayl, who left the Company last year.