Michael is a Managing Partner of Woodland Management, his family’s investment and family office which Michael has led since 2015. As the General Partner of Partners Edge Funds, a private equity and venture-focused investment fund launched in 2022, Michael oversees the Fund’s investment committee and sits on several portfolio companies’ Boards.
Prior to Woodland Management, Michael served as CEO of Polyconcept, a leading global supplier of Promotional Merchandise where he led the growth of Polyconcept from a small, family-owned business in 1992 into a global leader with annual sales close to $1 Billion. Michael is currently the Interim Chair of the reimagined Tree of Life and oversees the effort to rebuild this site of the worst antisemitic hate crime on US soil into a reimagined institution whose vision is Ending Antisemitism – Together with our allies in all communities combatting identity-based violence and discrimination. Michael holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
