Michael Ciaglia

Michael is an entrepreneur, investor, and operator with two decades of experience in technology, data, analytics, sales, and marketing optimization. He currently serves as the Founding Partner at Performant Capital, a Chicago-based investment firm focused on majority and buyout investments in technology-driven companies. Prior to Performant Capital, Michael acquired and operated three software businesses in a buy-and-build strategy in the SEO SaaS vertical successfully exiting to a financial buyer in 2018. Prior to that, Michael founded a software business that he sold to Market Track, a private equity backed company, in 2014 and spent three years in corporate development at Numerator (f/k/a Market Track).

Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.