Craig Fisk

In 2026 I'm excited to be building a machine-learning platform for virtual professional networking: Marmalade AI. We use webhooks to apply AI/NLP to profiles. We are starting with early career people in digital marketing, programming, and design. This is the future of work!

That techie part is fine, but then what? With the decline of Stackoverflow and Meetup.com, there's a huge opportunity to understand how to monetize "networking." https://techwalk.co and https://codeandcoffee.org are steps in that direction. Big picture: we currently do not “like” virtual networking, but we're going to have to figure it out.

In two startups, and previously as product line and strategy manager for software development ("SBS Chair") at Intel, I've built product and organizations to improve how people do business.

In software, I'm writing the Marmalade front end in Vue.js. I also wrote Python code to gather and manage 10,000 profiles as models for our NLP. The back end is GCP: Firebase and cloud functions. We live on git, Github, and agentic coding environments, like Opencode, Claude, Qwen, and Antigravity.

I've worked with inbound and outbound marketing -- everything from web content, webinars, and focus groups to C-level sales and sales funnel management.

I previously ran a Series A mobile CRM company (Portland and New York) that worked with companies from agriculture to cosmetics. I was a volunteer or board member with Legion of Tech, Northwest China Council, and Chamber Music Northwest. I've done volunteering projects quarterly with Minnesota nonprofits through https://handsontwincities.org/connected-for-change.

In September 2018, I moved to San Jose, CA, as marketing consultant for a Google Cloud Platform partner in Kubernetes (GKE). And now I've moved to the New York Metropolitan Area (Basking Ridge, NJ).

Univ. Chicago Booth Marketing MBA.

Univ. Wisconsin Comparative Literature PhD.

web: https://craigfisk.github.io/portfolio

company website: https://marmalade.ai