David Michael

David Michael is a member of the Board of Directors of TeraPore. He is an investor and advisor with nearly 30 years of international business experience. He co-founded Anzu Partners and developed the firm’s focus on breakthrough industrial technologies. He has pioneered the financing and growth of several relevant companies, including Nuburu, whose breakthrough blue wavelength high-power laser is transforming additive manufacturing and metals processing. Prior to founding Anzu, he spent 24 years at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Senior Partner and served in numerous leadership roles. Mr. Michael has advised many of the world’s leading companies in the technology and industrial sectors. He has served on the World Economic Forum’s Emerging Multinationals Council, the Strategy Board of China Mobile Corporation, and the US-China Business Council, and he is currently a Board member of Taiwan Cement Corporation, the flagship of the Koo’s Group conglomerate. He is on the International Advisory Board of the School of Global Policy at the University of California. Mr. Michael chaired the launch committee of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, and founded the non-profit corporation Building Futures Now in East Palo Alto, CA.

Mr. Michael has an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he received the school’s highest honor, the Ernest Arbuckle Award. He received a B.A. degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and was a Rotary International Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.