Michael joined Hearsay after eight years at Google. Michael was a founding executive at Google Enterprise and helped grow the business from its infancy to $1B. He was instrumental in launching Google Apps including business versions over Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive as well as Google Maps and Google App Engine. He has spoken extensively on the topic of the business cloud at a wide variety of industry events and is widely credited for helping large companies take their first steps into the public cloud. Prior to Google, Michael worked at a number of enterprise focused technology companies. He was a sales and marketing executive at IBM, ran a $300M+ business unit for Oracle and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Virage, Inc. In his tenure, the publicly listed NASDAQ company tripled revenues before its successful sale and integration with Autonomy Corporation in 2003. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.