Michael has 20 years of leadership experience in climate and energy start-ups combined with a background in building products and thermal sciences. The evolution of energy markets and the electric grid to fight climate change has been a central theme in his work at utility enterprise software company EnergySavvy (now part of Uplight), grid infrastructure hardware company Gridco Systems, and demand response industry-leader EnerNOC (IPO in 2007, acquired by Enel X in 2017). Earlier in his career, Michael co-founded commercial trade credit company BlueTarp Financial, which served tens of thousands of professional contractors. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and a B. Eng from Dartmouth with a focus in heat transfer and fluid dynamics.

Mike has spent over a decade developing best-in-class consumer hardware from proof-of-concept through production. He began his career as an engineer in Bose's headphone group and later held technical management and product leadership roles at SharkNinja on the Ninja kitchen product team. Mike holds a B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from McGill and is a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen.