Hyland appoints Michael Haugen as Senior Vice President of Content Innovation Cloud
- Hyland appoints Michael Haugen as Senior Vice President of Content Innovation Cloud to accelerate the company's ongoing international growth
- Haugen has over 30 years of leadership experience in the enterprise software industry and has demonstrated verifiable achievements in driving the transition to the SaaS model.
This appointment reflects Hyland's commitment to promoting the implementation of intelligent and automated content across global enterprises, and as the adoption of Hyland Content Innovation Cloud ™ accelerates, this commitment is also continuously being strengthened.
- Haugen will be fully responsible for the commercial performance of the Content Innovation Cloud product portfolio, and will unify product management, marketing, and sales efforts, working together around a common market entry strategy.
Cleveland, September 28, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- As global enterprises move from the AI experimental phase to a large-scale, governed, agent-based automation phase, the organizations that will truly succeed will be those that can transform decades of unstructured content into AI reliable data and contextual foundations. This transformation requires a leader who can coordinate strategy, execution, and commercialization discipline around a single, unified growth engine.
Hyland is a global leader in driving enterprise-level content intelligence and automation. Today, the company announced the appointment of Michael Haugen as Senior Vice President of Content Innovation Cloud. In this new role, Haugen will be responsible for managing the business performance of the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud product portfolio comprehensively, including revenue and order signing, market entry strategies, as well as the long-term growth roadmap. Hyland will also take this opportunity to accelerate growth in the next phase.
Hyland Chief Revenue Officer Steve Baird stated: " Content Innovation Cloud is the engine that drives autonomous agency businesses, and the next phase of growth requires a leader who can combine our platform's differentiation with tailored commercialization strategies. The appointment of Michael comes at a critical moment of Hyland; we are expanding our lead in helping global enterprises achieve content intelligence, which is the foundation for truly realizing automation based on agencies."
In this role, Haugen will develop and implement commercialization strategies for Hyland Content Innovation Cloud, working closely with product leaders to translate market insights and customer feedback into clear priorities. He will also represent Content Innovation Cloud of Hyland in interactions with customers, partners, and industry forums, helping to shape the company's external narrative and thought leadership, while also driving the company to consolidate its leading position in the fields of content intelligence and automation.
Haugen indicates: "Global enterprises hold the most valuable assets, yet they are also the least understood. Those organizations that can transform this content into a governed foundation for AI will emerge victorious in the automation of enterprises over the next decade. Hyland has built trust as a trustworthy steward of global organizational content for over 30 years, and I am very eager to help lead the next phase of growth under Content Innovation Cloud."
Haugen has over 30 years of experience in driving growth, financial performance, and business transformation within technology and enterprise software organizations. Before joining Hyland, he worked at insightsoftware, where he served as the General Manager of the company's Global Enterprise Performance Management Suite business unit, responsible for the financial performance of that business, which amounted to 125 million US dollars.
Before joining insightsoftware, Haugen served as the Chief Revenue Officer for Planview's Americas region, leading teams responsible for sales, professional services, customer success, and renewal strategies. During his tenure, he achieved double-digit year-over-year growth in order signings and continued to improve both the gross revenue retention rate and net revenue retention rate.
For more information about Hyland Content Innovation Cloud, please visit Hyland.com.
About Hyland
Hyland is a leader in the field of intelligent and automated content management, helping organizations to transform corporate content into governed intelligence to accelerate decision-making and business performance. The platform from Hyland is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world, including many Fortune 100 companies. Its open platform utilizes AI to convert content, data, and processes into reliable contexts, enabling people, applications, and agents to work automatically within a content-driven, autonomous enterprise framework. For more information, please visit Hyland.com.
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