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Michael is founder and CEO of Wink, a recently launched Internet search engine. Michael is perhaps most known as founder of AdForce, a successful Internet ad serving company which went public in 1999 and was later acquired by CMGi. Michael also founded XDegrees, a provider of solutions for distributed file storage, acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Previously, Michael directed product management at Verity, the leader in enterprise search. Michael was Assistant Director of the Center for Emerging Technology Enterprises in Warsaw, Poland where he helped entrepreneurs create technology companies after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His first company was Madenta Communications, a provider of speech and computer access devices for the disabled. Michael is an active investor and adviser to in early stage companies through a small investment fund, Endeavor Group, and serves on the Board of Cloudmark, a leader in anti-spam solutions, and is an investor/adviser to LinkedIn, Flock, SimplyHired, Snap and RealTravel. Michael is also Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non-profit that engages emerging business leaders in philanthropy through grants and hands-on assistance to promising organizations. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford University and a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. | 