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Michael is Principal of Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a Eurekster investor. Michael joined TVP management team in March 2002 from the US. He leads investigation of new investment opportunities and works with a range of existing portfolio companies. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Altos Ventures, a software and communications venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He also oversaw business development and the consumer direct division at iOwn, a venture-backed financial services technology company based in San Francisco. During his tenure, iOwn grew from 9 to 320 people, raised US$100m, filed for an IPO and was ultimately sold to Citibank. He has additional work experience in strategy consulting and investment banking with Bain & Co. and Goldman Sachs. He is Co-founder of VC Connect, a national event series promoting venture capital to entrepreneurs across Australia. He has an Honors degree from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford University. | 