Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Mike joined Index Ventures in 2009 to help establish the firm's San Francisco office with Danny Rimer. Mike invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies. Within the Index portfolio, Mike is currently serving on the boards of Aurora,Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Wealthfront, and Zuora. He also serves on the board for Fiat Chrysler Automotive. Mike was previously a director of Blue Bottle Coffee, Hortonworks, and Pure Storage.

Mike held several executive positions prior to Index, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco's routing business. Mike managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals.

Mike has a B.S in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of Stanford's Knight Hennessy Scholars program.