Michael Angst,

Co-founder & Managing Partner, E-Line Ventures, LLC

Mentee:

Consolée, 17, Rwanda

Michael is venture investor with significant finance, technology, and executive-level operating experience.

Michael is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a ‘double bottom line’ venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses and underserved communities to better compete in a complex, global marketplace and to become actively engaged in the critical issues of the day.

Prior to E-Line, Michael spent several years as a private equity investor with Bluefin Partners, where he focused on businesses that convey services on a global basis by harnessing the collective strength of highly-distributed, independently owned and operated businesses. His investments included Lason, a multi-national outsourcing company that delivers service through over 70 independently owned micro-franchises in India and China (employing over 10,000 people).

Prior to Bluefin Partners, Michael served as the Chief Operating Officer of National Healthcare Resources (NHR), a healthcare services provider, where he supervised the growth of the Company from $10MM to over $150MM in annual revenue and the acquisition and integration of over 20 private companies.

Michael began his professional career with Salomon Brothers, where he worked for five years as a quantitative analyst developing trading analytics and supporting investment banking transactions.

Michael graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He also studied in the graduate film program at NYU, where he supported the award-winning short film work of Jim Taylor (Academy Award winning screenwriter of Sideways) and Keir Pearson (Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda). He has produced short films that tackle tough social issues ranging from mental disabilities to gender bias in Eastern cultures. As a theatre producer, Michael has helped mount several socially relevant works, including a New York production of The Investigation by Peter Weiss, which recounts emotional testimony from witnesses and survivors at the Frankfurt Auschwitz war trials.

Michael currently serves as Executive Chairman of Stolen Bases, an E-Line portfolio company that empowers small enterprises with on-demand business services. He also serves as Co-Chair of FilmAid International (an NGO that uses the power of film to promote health, strengthen communities, and enrich the lives of the world's vulnerable and uprooted) and serves on the Board of Directors of Sustainable South Bronx (an organization that drives environmental justice through economically sustainable projects).