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Ryan
Johnson
Chief Product Officer
CallRail
Ryan has 15 years of diverse product development leadership experience in early-stage startups and Fortune 100 companies. As CallRail's Chief Product Officer, he leverages his passion for developing best-in-class products to solve real-world problems. Prior to joining CallRail, Ryan lived in Las Vegas and led development of Banjos (now MiiM) world-class AI/ML products, helping raise $100mm in VC funding. Before Banjo, Ryan was a key part of the management team that grew Vitrue into a unified SaaS platform that was acquired by Oracle for over $330mm. He's a car and racing enthusiast from Michigan that now lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.
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26 March 2026 11:15 - 12:00
Panel: The hidden tax on Innovation: Making the tough calls on legacy products and technical debt
Every CPO knows that unchecked legacy products and mounting technical debt act as a "hidden tax," draining engineering capacity and crippling innovation velocity. This panel tackles the political, organizational, and financial gravity of portfolio rationalization. We will discuss and debate the strategic frameworks required to set clear, data-driven sunset criteria for profitable but stagnant products. Attendees will gain actionable insights on how to quantify technical debt as a business risk, secure alignment with finance and engineering leaders, and effectively reallocate freed-up resources to fund the next generation of growth products and competitive AI initiatives.