Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997 and remains one of the top destinations online for discussions on the future of media, business models and policy.  Mike is a sought after conference keynote speaker, and regular does executive briefings with C-level execs.

Companies that Floor64 has done work for include Intel, American Express, Microsoft, SAP, Dell, Dow Jones, Oracle, Sprint, HP, Volkswagen, Dupont, and many more.  Mike has spoken at executive events at a variety of companies, including the Google, the BBC, Swisscom and others.  He has keynoted or spoken at conferences for the American Marketing Association, MIDEM, WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Associaiton), the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, Conversational Marketing Summit, Leadership Music, Mesh (Canadian media conference), SFMusicTech, O’Reilly’s Emerging Tech, The Congressional Internet Caucus and many others.  Twice he has spent a week at the University of Edinburgh, teaching classes in the Informatics School on new media business models.  Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA — both from Cornell University.

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