For the most part, Emil Michael's career has focused primarily on helping technology start-ups with their business strategy, corporate and business development, day-to-day operations and sales. Currently, he is the senior vice president of business at Uber, where he has been a crucial player in that company’s success, assisting with their international expansion and helping to establish corporate partnerships with many large companies. He has also helped them raise copious amounts of capital.
Emil Michael was born in Cairo, Egypt, but grew up in New Rochelle, New York. After high school, he earned a Government degree cum laude from Harvard, where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson and was president of the Harvard Republican Club. He later earned a J.D. from Stanford and served a short stint at Goldman Sachs, before heading to the Silicon Valley in 1999. That was when he co-founded Tellme Networks, which created voice recognition software for automated phone systems. He helped run that company until it was purchased by Microsoft in 2007. He took a career detour from 2009-2011, working in the White House as a special assistant and security adviser to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but he returned to Silicon Valley in 2012, as the CEO of Klout, a social media analytics company. He joined Uber in 2013 and he’s still there.
Emil Michael was born in Cairo, Egypt, but grew up in New Rochelle, New York. After high school, he earned a Government degree cum laude from Harvard, where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson and was president of the Harvard Republican Club. He later earned a J.D. from Stanford and served a short stint at Goldman Sachs, before heading to the Silicon Valley in 1999. That was when he co-founded Tellme Networks, which created voice recognition software for automated phone systems. He helped run that company until it was purchased by Microsoft in 2007. He took a career detour from 2009-2011, working in the White House as a special assistant and security adviser to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but he returned to Silicon Valley in 2012, as the CEO of Klout, a social media analytics company. He joined Uber in 2013 and he’s still there.