About the Author
Bud Michael is the founder and CEO of Renaissance Management Services (www.renaissancemgtsvcs.com), a strategy and execution consulting firm for the high technology industry. Renaissance Management Services specializes in helping the management teams and investors in technology companies maximize the return on their investments by finding high value problems that can be solved by their “cool” inventions. He has been in the high technology industry for over thirty years with a career in sales, marketing and general management. He has twice been CEO for early stage software companies, and has held executive management positions with industry leading, global software and services companies. He and his wife, Barbara, are empty nesters living in Mountain View, CA.