Mike Boese

Chief Executive Officer, Hearsay Systems

Michael Boese is CEO of Hearsay Systems. He has 25 years of software leadership experience with high performing software companies. Most recently, he was co-founder and CEO of Plantt, a SaaS enabled garden goods marketplace that was purchased by Monrovia. Prior to Plantt, Boese was the CEO of Certent, a fintech SaaS company where he oversaw 5x revenue growth, significant margin expansion and the implementation of multiple process improvement initiatives over a six-year period. Boese has also held various senior leadership roles at Taleo, SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. He has also been a board advisor and consultant to several software companies.

Boese holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Washington and an MBA from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.