Emil Michael is the senior vice president of business at Uber. As an Uber executive, he has had a hand in a number of very important aspects of Uber's business. He has been able to assist with international expansion, to help set up corporate partnerships with companies as diverse as Spotify and American Express, to diversify the company’s business model and even to raise capital for the company, including a recent round of financing that set the company's value at $17 billion.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Emil Michael came to the United States as a baby and settled with his family in New Rochelle, New York, which is where he grew up. After graduating high school, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Government cum laude from Harvard. While at Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Crimson and served as president of the Harvard Republican Club. He also earned a J.D. from Stanford.
Early in his career, he worked for a brief time at Goldman Sachs, but ended up in the Silicon Valley in 1999, which was the peak of the dot-com bubble. There, he co-founded Tellme Networks, which developed voice recognition software that was specially designed for automated telephone systems. His career took a detour after that. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a special assistant to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a security adviser. He returned to Silicon Valley in 2012, as the CEO of Klout, a social media analytics company. A year after that, he joined Uber.
For the most part, Emil Michael's career has focused on assisting technology start-ups with regard to business strategy, corporate development, business development, operations and sales force restructuring. He has advised some of the largest and most prominent tech companies in Silicon Valley, guiding many of them to lucrative multi-billion-dollar partnerships or buyouts by much larger tech companies, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp and others.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Emil Michael came to the United States as a baby and settled with his family in New Rochelle, New York, which is where he grew up. After graduating high school, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Government cum laude from Harvard. While at Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Crimson and served as president of the Harvard Republican Club. He also earned a J.D. from Stanford.
Early in his career, he worked for a brief time at Goldman Sachs, but ended up in the Silicon Valley in 1999, which was the peak of the dot-com bubble. There, he co-founded Tellme Networks, which developed voice recognition software that was specially designed for automated telephone systems. His career took a detour after that. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a special assistant to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a security adviser. He returned to Silicon Valley in 2012, as the CEO of Klout, a social media analytics company. A year after that, he joined Uber.
For the most part, Emil Michael's career has focused on assisting technology start-ups with regard to business strategy, corporate development, business development, operations and sales force restructuring. He has advised some of the largest and most prominent tech companies in Silicon Valley, guiding many of them to lucrative multi-billion-dollar partnerships or buyouts by much larger tech companies, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp and others.