One-Line Bio
I am an entrepreneur, am married with 2 kids, 2 dogs, a rabbit, an owl, a bunch of geese, 2 bands and about 100 songs.
Biography
Michael is SVP of Product at VEVO, formerly VP of Product & Technology at Myspace where he worked on Artist Tools, Events and Threads product lines. He was co-founder and CEO of Threadbox an email collaboration company, which he sold to Myspace in 2010. He led the incubation for the company as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Venrock, a leading venture capital firm. His prior founding CEO roles include social telephony company Jangl as well as Internet voice company Ooma. Prior, he held various sales, marketing and business development roles networking companies Procket, Trapeze, Redback, Lucent/Livingston and Netopia. He enjoys the creative process, product design, marketing, customer development and business development. He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a bachelor's degree in I.T. in December 1994. He is an avid yoga practitioner, musician, chef, and basketball jones.
Interests
music, yoga, technology, food and more music.