Kim Stagg

Chief Product & Technology Officer · Appen

Appen's product and technology chief. He owns CrowdGen (the crowd's work interface), Mercury (the project and crowd backend) and the expert-sourcing platform Elite AI.

medium confidenceAt Appen since 2022Updated 2026-09-19

Background

PhD in hydrogeology and computer science (University of Birmingham). Before Appen he was CTO at Antea Group and CPO at iEHS. He joined Appen in Aug 2022 as VP Product and was promoted to CPTO.

What they run now

Platforms: CrowdGen, Mercury, ADAP, Elite AI (expert recruitment) and vertical collection kits (MediGo, RoboGo). The FY26 priority is embedding generative AI into Appen's own platforms for quality and speed.

Career

2022 – presentVP Product, then Chief Product & Technology Officer, Appen
—Chief Product Officer, iEHS
—Chief Technology Officer, Antea Group
—University of Birmingham, PhD Hydrogeology and Computer Science

Connections

Ryan Kolln — CEO

Why it matters here

Moderate-low relevance. He runs the tooling a creative-data specialist would compete with or plug into, for example expert sourcing via Elite AI.

How to reach

Via LinkedIn or Appen. Speculation: a product-integration angle.

What we could not establish

No public interviews found.
LinkedIn/X not confirmed.
Location.

Sources

Also at Appen

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Kim Stagg

Background

What they run now

Career

Connections

Sources

Ryan Kolln

Justin Miles

Brian Jenkins

Francisco Rivera

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