Oren Michels
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB, Electrical Engineering (VI-1) -
UCLA Anderson School of Management
MBA, Finance & Entrepreneurial Studies 1987-01-01 - 1989-01-01Work Experience
Barndoor AI
Current
Barndoor AI
Fleet Street Productions
Current
Fleet Street Productions
Cloudery
Current
Cloudery
Autopilot
Current
Autopilot
Gooten
Current
Gooten
Lawgeex
Current
Lawgeex
Xapix
2021-06-01 - 2023-05-01
Xapix
Troops (Acquired by Salesforce - July 2022)
2018-12-01 - 2022-07-01
Troops (Acquired by Salesforce - July 2022)
WayUp
2017-07-01 - 2021-07-01
WayUp
Server Density
2015-01-01 - 2018-01-01
Server Density
Summary
Oren is an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and advisor to technology startups in the US and Europe. He’s co-founder and CEO of Barndoor AI, the control plane for agentic AI in the enterprise. He co-founded Mashery in 2006 and served as CEO until Intel acquired the company in 2013. Oren is also a Tony-nominated Broadway and Off-Broadway producer whose credits include Romeo+Juliet and Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Cloney. His angel investments include Uber, Pebble Post, and eero. Oren has advised numerous enterprise software companies on developing and implementing strategies for growth and in closing M&A transactions. He also served on the US Government Health Information Technology Policy Enrollment Workgroup at the invitation of the White House CTO. Oren has spoken at numerous conferences around the world, including SXSW, Le Web, f.ounders, the Dublin Web Summit, Web 2.0, and Podim Slovenia and has guest lectured at MIT, Columbia, Cal and UCLA. Prior to founding Mashery, Oren was VP at Feedster, a search engine and ad network for RSS feeds, where he led the company’s business development efforts in the US and China, closing partnerships with AOL, Real Networks and Mitsui. He was president of ColtHR (a SaaS employee benefits management platform) and of winebid.com (the Internet’s largest wine auction house). He also spent a year as ED and CEO of The Groundlings, a Los Angeles based comedy improv theatre company. Oren holds an SB in Electrical Engineering (VI-1) from MIT and an MBA from UCLA.
