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Michael Rosenbaum has been Chairman and CEO of Catalyst IT Services since founding the company in 2000. He has been responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction, leading the company’s management team and raising capital as the company has grown. As the company grew to a size substantial enough to be able to provide larger-scale application services outsourcing to Fortune 500 companies, he guided the company into the technology services space previously dominated by offshore outsourcing. As a result, Catalyst is the leading onshore alternative to offshore IT outsourcing today.Prior to starting Catalyst IT Services, Mr. Rosenbaum received an Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship to build the technology in Pegged Software, the talent acquisition solution offered by Catalyst’s sister company that allows Catalyst IT Services to identify talent faster and more effectively than its competition. Prior to that, he spent two years teaching and writing articles about law and economics as a John M. Olin Fellow at Harvard University. In addition, he has worked for the White House on technology and telecommunications as well as urban and rural issues, the U.S. Department of State on trade and the region of the former Soviet Union, the law firm of Hogan & Hartson on commercial litigation, and the consulting and accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand on privatization in the Russian Federation. He also clerked for the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 2001, he was named by the Baltimore Business Journal as one of the Baltimore area’s 40 under 40 emerging leaders, and in 2007 he was a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Leadership program.Mr. Rosenbaum earned his law degree from Harvard Law School cum laude, a master of science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College magna cum laude, where he was a Harvard National Scholar. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Amy, and his two daughters Elizabeth and Emma. | 