VITAL VENTURE NETWORKS - Key Persons
Michael is President of Vital Venture Networks, which he founded in 2002. During the past decade he has undertaken marketing and communications assignments for NYSE-Euronext, Archipelago (acquired by the NYSE in 2006 in a $10 billion reverse merger), BIO, The Research Triangle Institute, the New York Academy of Sciences, and a number of prestigious universities including Yale University's School of Management, Northwestern's Kellogg School and Stanford University's Schools of Law, Medicine, and Engineering. He also has held senior communications positions at the NASD (now FINRA) and NASDAQ.
Michael's network within the venture capital community is extensive and he also manages a series of venture meetings for a VC consortium, which he built during the past 12 years.
In 2009 he co-founded and became a Managing Director of the Knowledge Economy Institute (KE 2). KE 2 is a nonprofit organization comprised of business, investment, philanthropy, and university leaders who have seized upon the urgent need to focus and align institutions with a national agenda for economic recovery and sustainable growth while simultaneously addressing global challenges in energy, environment, finance and other areas.
Prior to creating VVN and KE 2, Michael was President and founder of Connections Corporation, whose mission was to promote entrepreneurs, scientists, and university research beyond the academic community and to the broader marketplace, and to provide advice to start-up companies seeking to raise capital.