Mike has advised leading technology companies on over 150 M&A transactions, including recently advising Microsoft on its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. His specialties include strategic advice and experience in negotiating complex transactions and strategic acquisition advice. Mike has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of his life. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Phillips Brooks School in Menlo Park, where his children attended elementary school. Mike attended Stanford University for his BS in Industrial Engineering, and then again later for his MBA in Business Administration. Mike currently lives in Atherton with his wife, Gretchen, and their three teenage children. He is an avid hiker and enjoys wine, golf, snow skiing, duck hunting, travel, poker and bridge.
