Simon Malkowski

Chief Operating Officer

Simon serves as ActiveCampaign’s Chief Operating Officer. Simon and his team bridge the gap between strategy and execution, ensuring strategic initiatives are aligned, prioritized and executed transparently. They orchestrate the ActiveCampaign operating rhythms to increase operational rigor, while also helping to facilitate cross-functional alignment in support of its unified CX and GTM strategy.

Simon previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at Mailchimp, where he architected and operationalized the company’s cross-functional growth strategy. He was instrumental in leading Mailchimp’s $12 billion acquisition by Intuit, the largest bootstrapped tech exit in history. Prior to that, Simon was a Partner at BCG, where he advised Fortune 500 companies and high-growth tech firms on commercial acceleration, operating model redesign, and growth strategy.

Simon holds a Business Engineering Degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, and a Master of Computer Science and a PhD both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.