Martin J. Logan

CPO / CTO — Product, Technology, and Execution at Scale

Operator with a track record of building and turning around high-growth businesses in competitive markets. Focused on disciplined execution, strong teams, and capital-efficient growth.

Built and scaled multi-billion-dollar product lines
Delivered category-leading products against larger competitors
Known for upgrading teams and improving execution velocity
Deep technical background in distributed systems (author, Erlang and OTP in Action)

Experience

Co-Founder

VoxSafe (nonprofit) · Jul 2025 – Present

Protecting older adults, including our own parents, from scams through real-time AI scam detection & free workshops. Voxsafe.com

Independent Director

Gateless · Feb 2023 – Present

Independent board director at Gateless, an AI mortgage technology company.

Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer

Caesars Entertainment — Las Vegas, NV · Mar 2021 – Nov 2024

Took sportsbook and online casino from early stage to top-4 market position
Built Caesars Palace Online into the #3 online casino with 100%+ YoY growth
Scaled team to 600+ over 3 years while maintaining high hiring standards
Transitioned business from growth-focused to profitability; among the few profitable operators in 2024
Led the response to the 2023 Scattered Spider cyber attack. Caesars kept operating throughout; a notable competitor attacked at the same time did not
First to bring AI into Caesars
Licensed by gaming regulators in 24 states

Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer

William Hill — London, UK · Feb 2019 – Mar 2021

Key contributor to valuation growth from ~$500M to ~$3.5B. The only operator besides FanDuel/DraftKings to be in all legalized states day 1
Built sportsbook, online casino, and retail platform from the ground up in ~2 years
Maintained operational stability through COVID-era sports shutdown

Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer

Guaranteed Rate — Chicago, IL · Apr 2014 – Jan 2019

Built first end-to-end digital mortgage platform in the country; drove ~$5B incremental volume in year one
Reduced loan cycle time from 60+ days to ~10 days
Led product and technology for a 10,000+ employee #2 lender in the country
Integrated major acquisitions including Discover Home Loans and Realogy partnership

Head of Client-Side Development — Cloud Drive

Amazon — Seattle, WA · Sept 2012 – Apr 2014

Launched Amazon Cloud Drive consumer experience
Rebuilt execution model to stabilize delivery
Led photo storage strategy for Fire devices (including early unlimited storage offering)

GM: SEO & Merchandising, Mobile

Orbitz Worldwide — Chicago, IL · Jan 2010 – Sept 2012

Owned platforms generating ~50% of bookings and search traffic
Led launch of flagship mobile app (Apple Editor’s Choice)
Beat larger agencies like Expedia to market by over 6 months with industry-first mobile offering
Drove SEO transformation, increasing non-brand organic traffic materially

Earlier Roles

Orbitz (2006–2010): Led business services, white label, and real-time intelligence teams
Clearpace (2005–2006): Dev lead turned sales engineer supporting enterprise deal acquisition
FutureSource (2003–2005): Team lead, commodities charting platform
Vail Systems (1999–2003): Built distributed network services used for decades post-departure

Books, Talks & Recognition

Author: Erlang and OTP in Action (400 pages on distributed systems)
Speaker: Engineering, scaling organizations, and Agile execution
Extensive experience hiring and building high-performance teams
Recruiting and interviewing coach (10+ years of running training)

Education

B.E., Computer Science — University of Illinois

Other

Founder and shareholder, DevOps.com — profitable media business (60+ employees)
Built an LLM from scratch; built VoxSafe and VibeRep (iOS fitness app) using AI technologies
AI consulting: turned a 10-person team that had struggled for a year into a 5-person team moving at a much faster pace
Fluent Spanish speaker