“I grew up in a house where the table was always full — of food, of conversation, of laughter, of love. That is still the best model of collaboration I believe in.”
Mikey
Fiume.
VP of Product · New York · Italian-American
New York raised.
Italian at the core.
I was born and raised in New York, in a home shaped by Italian roots and the particular kind of ambition that Italian-American families pass down like a second language, which I also had the fortune of. My parents gave me and my brothers something that no education or career could replicate: a genuine belief that the quality of your character matters more than the size of your title.
That foundation — balance, ambition, and the courage to dream big — has been the through-line of everything I've built since. It lives in how I lead teams. It lives in how I approach a product problem. It lives in how I show up for people.
The lesson I carry from those early years is that the best things... the best meals, the best products, the best relationships — are made with care, not speed.
Growing up in New York also gave me something harder to articulate but just as important: a relentless exposure to human diversity. To the full range of how people live, work, dream, and struggle. That exposure became the foundation of my product instinct — the ability to build for real humans, not personas.
Built for the long game.
My career in technology didn't begin with a grand plan. It began with curiosity — a genuine obsession with the question of how things work, and more importantly, how they could work better for the people using them.
Over more than a decade working across product and technology, I've learned that the most important skill in this industry isn't technical. It's the ability to hold two things simultaneously: the user's emotional reality and the business's structural need. Most people optimize for one. The job is to honor both.
As VP of Product at Wing Tel, that philosophy has translated into measurable results: leading cross-functional teams to build forward-thinking telecom solutions, driving $20M in B2B revenue, and overseeing more than 100,000 service line activations. But the numbers are downstream of the culture. We built something worth building — a team that trusts each other, a product that actually serves its users, and a process that doesn't have to choose between speed and care.
Every milestone has reinforced my belief in the power of meaningful connection — through both technology and human relationships.
I believe in the intersection of innovation and creativity — not as a tagline, but as a genuine operating principle. The best product decisions I've made weren't purely analytical. They were informed by instinct, shaped by empathy, and refined by craft. That's the combination I bring to every room I walk into.