Michael serves as Global Operations Advisor of Cognitive Leap, with responsibility for business development matters (broadly defined). He has experience as an entrepreneurial leader, board member and senior advisor in a range of development stage businesses. This position unites Michael’s business experience with a lifelong interest in medicine—among other things, Michael has edited a medical book, Zoobiquity by Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers.

 

Michael spent more than two decades as a senior M&A and capital markets partner with major international law firm Skadden Arps, and also helped manage rapid growth as their Head of Asia Pacific. In these capacities, Michael led a long list of innovative transactions involving billion dollar-plus transactions on four continents, and including major healthcare acquisitions, for which he has received numerous awards and recognitions. Michael graduated from Harvard College and Stanford Law School.