Michael is a Founder and COO at OpenChannel. Helping the world's most innovative companies grow their developer ecosystem and transform their products into platforms, OpenChannel supports leading software, hardware and virtual reality companies in successfully launching and managing their own app marketplace and developer community. He's an Alumni at the venture backed Alchemist Accelerator and mentor at The Knowledge Society, a top innovation program exposing today's youth to technology and topics that will affect our future. Teaching and training martial arts for over 25 years, he's a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, former Ringside World Boxing Champion, and has performed as a professional musician throughout Europe and Asia.