Michael Blend

Michael Blend is currently the Chairman and Co-Founder at System1. Michael has also been a Director at Protected.net and Dynata, and an Executive Advisor at Court Square Capital Partners. Michael has also been an Adjunct Professor at both UCLA Samueli Computer Science and USC Marshall.

Prior to their current positions, they were the Chairman at Stuff Media. Stuff Media was the leading independent podcast producer until it was acquired by iHeartMedia in 2018. Prior to that, they were also the Director at JDI Backup, which was acquired by NASDAQ: EIGI in 2014.

Michael Blend majored in mathematics and philosophy at Duke University before going on to earn their J.D. at the University of Chicago.