Michael is a partner at Group 1066. He works with clients to help them find new opportunities for innovating their go-to-market approach. His focus is on technology products and services, and other complex sets of offerings.
He brings a range of experience on strategic problem-solving for clients, including: Microsoft, MasterCard, IBM, Gartner, Readers' Digest, Dow Chemical, Caterpillar, and the Boston Consulting Group, among others.
Michael writes and speaks frequently on strategic marketing and product innovation. His articles have appeared in Brandweek, CMO Magazine, ChiefMarketer, and WirelessWeek. He has also been quoted and featured in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Marketing Daily, CNNfn, Paper, Advertising Age, Yahoo! Business News, American Demographics, and Comvergence. Most recently his article on divergent paths to innovation was published in Manage Smarter.
Before forming Group 1066, Michael worked as a Senior Consultant at the strategic branding firm Siegel & Gale. While at Siegel & Gale he was responsible for the creation and implementation of branding and internet strategies for a variety of clients. At that time, he also led a group focused on ways in which emerging wireless and broadband technologies were changing the business landscape. Previously Michael worked at Ogilvy & Mather, leading the creation of websites for the IBM e-Business campaign and several key IBM products and services, including IBM Global Services and WebSphere.
He serves on the Advisory Board of Prisma MicroFinance, a Boston-based microcredit lending institution and is on the board of the New York/New Jersey chapter of the Product Development and Management Association.
Michael has a masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University where his thesis was on the impact of broadband wireless technologies. He has a degree in Religious Studies from Brown University.