Michael is an excellent partner and consistently goes well beyond what is expected. His level of responsiveness, thoughtfulness, and eagerness to help has brought several improvements and efficiencies to our talent acquisition and recruiting ops teams, and to DigitalOcean’s overall talent brand. Specifically, Michael’s focus on data and reporting has enabled us to more accurately capture and analyze traffic to our jobs and career pages, ultimately informing our decision making.

Read more “His ability to think strategically in every situation was highly impressive. He always knew what technology had to do to allow the business to achieve its objectives.”

Michael is an experienced senior level executive in both business and technology. In his role, he developed and rolled out a global technology M&A framework. Although he was new to the company and in a newly created role, he acted as a change agent, quickly establishing relationships and successfully influencing processes as he worked across the organization. His leadership set the stage to enable proper engagement and cost/risk assessments of a number of technology functions during the pre-close due diligence, including the technology function that I represented. He was a real pleasure to work with and I highly recommend Michael.

It’s not often you find a leader that you fully respect, trust, and admire–I found just that in Michael. As the President of Integrative Nutrition, he created structure and stability at a time we needed it most, not only by instituting a performance management system for all staff, but by also building a team of seasoned professionals to drive IIN’s objectives for continued growth forward. Michael is a tireless worker who truly puts all of his heart and drive into making an organization stronger. And he succeeded in this case.

Read more “Possesses a rare authenticity in his leadership style. He is passionate about developing people and the motivation with which he does so is contagious.”

Read more “I’m not sure there are many business leaders out there who could have been half as successful even if given twice the amount of time.”

I worked very closely with Michael for several years. I found him to be a technical executive who understood the business side and was able to manage the integration of technology that fit with business objectives. He managed deftly the design and implementation of solutions such as our CRM, order management system and business intelligence reporting platform; all provided efficiency, cost savings, control and made life easier for internal users and client facing personnel.

Read more “Michael is able to focus on both the tech and business side of the enterprise with equal dedication, and that has helped us to succeed as a fully online school.”

Read more “He is very adaptable to change and knows that an organization must transform over time to survive.”

Read more “Michael’s unerring product vision and passionate commitment to excellence catapulted IIN to becoming a full-fledged technology company with a state-of-the art cross-platform service offering.”

IIN (of which Michael is President) and Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) joined in a creative partnership to provide advanced standing to IIN graduates at MUIH. The discussions were forthright, professional, personable and mutually beneficial. Michael’s support made this happen in a timely manner; the contract terms were easily adopted; and IIN has been an excellent partner.

Read more “His passion toward building an executive team and growing the company was infectious.”

Read more “Always makes it a point to understand the business’s needs and ensures that his technology roadmaps add value to the various business units.”

Read more “Has a keen business sense and is well known for quickly identifying the context of a situation and offering an appropriate solution.”

Read more “Michael is a dedicated leader who works with integrity, honesty, and is a valuable person to have in your corner.”

Read more “He provided keen technology insight as well as clear direction to his team, resulting in an improved and cost efficient technology infrastructure.”

Read more “Michael leads through tried and true experience and clear direction. He is approachable, methodical in his work and offers 100% effort to each endeavor.”

I have had the pleasure to work with Michael going on 3yrs. He is a diligent professional who strives to lead by example.. He treats his partners with respect and continuously works to provide excellence. It is a pleasure to work with him as a partner.

Michael was not only a pleasure to work with, he was instrumental in aligning the various work-streams during acquisition due diligence. Because of Michael’s efforts, there were repeatable processes developed and implemented, and the flow of communication between Tech M&A and my group allowed us to mitigate risk and manage costs for the company.

Read more “Michael cares deeply about the success of our staff and our students. He publicly appreciates staff and takes the time to attend student events so he can speak with them directly and learn more about their experience taking our program.”

Read more “He is intelligent and committed in his work, a respectful and motivating manager, and a natural leader.”

Read more “He is a consummate leader and visionary, always challenging and motivating his team towards success and constant improvement.”

Read more “He understands how to strike a balance between longer-term strategic issues and the pragmatic day-to-day decisions so that both are achieved.”

Read more “Thanks to Michael’s leadership, during my tenure at IIN the company enjoyed an amazing turnaround with both sales and revenues growing consistently.”

I have had the pleasure of working with Michael for 7+ years at TMP Worldwide. Michael is a self-motivated, strategic executive who always delivered. He possesses great energy and interpersonal skills and knows how to successfully manage teams and clients. He brought a wealth of knowledge to the position and his skill set is unlimited. I highly recommend Michael.

Read more “Michael’s help has been invaluable. Michael is very bright, extremely dedicated, and incredibly focused on quality.”

Michael and I worked on a final class project together for our High-tech Entrepreneur class at Columbia Business School. He impressed me most in that:   1) His ability to use strong technical expertise and integrate with solid business sense;   2) Strong entrepreneurial spirit, take ownership and leadership, in small or big business settings;   3) His motivation to continuously learn new knowledge, acquire new skills and constantly improve himself.   I believe these attributes will serve Michael well in all future endeavors.

Michael is a truly unique and effective leader that guides his executives and lets them grow by trusting in their experience and instincts. He empowers the people that work for him and provides support and guidance when needed. He easily communicates the company vision and captures buy in from the entire company to meet our goals.

I had the good fortune to work with, and report to, Michael for just under year at IIN. He was singlehandedly responsible for expanding and professionalizing the organization, championing and supporting high end technology solutions to solve business problems, installing a world class management team and turning around the business. He is fair, incredibly hardworking and leads by example. In short, he is a great top executive.