Michael Yoon

Michael Yoon has over 20 years of executive management experience in technology and product in diverse environments from startups to large corporations. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Pleiades Robotics, a start-up that builds autonomous drones, and is interim CTO at Thnks, a business gifting startup. Most recently, he was the CTO and head of Product at MiMedia, a consumer cloud startup company with global partnerships in the mobile handset and telecom industries where he developed the product from 0 to 1.5M users and helped raise 25M in funding. Michael was also CTO for Smarton, a Kaplan TechStars digital education company bringing higher education courses to institutions in India. Earlier, Michael was Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he led the Architecture Round Table for establishing technology strategy and best practices throughout the enterprise and was responsible for master data management and big data services. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Michael was VP Engineering at Barnes & Noble.com, a Fortune 500 e-commerce retailer overseeing software development through the online and digital expansion growing from $100M to over $1B in annual revenue. Before joining BN.com, Michael co-founded two companies, and earlier in his career, he built electronic trading systems and high transaction market monitoring systems at Bloomberg LLP. Michael holds an MBA in Finance with Honors from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Canada.