Michael Burns

Michael Burns has more than 20 years of experience in technology start-ups and private equity. He also has been a Partner at Alara Capital, a core advisor at Gauss Ventures, a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, and a Managing Director at TL Ventures. He has deep operating experience and has been part of many successful companies where he has been a co-founder, seed investor or senior executive including Agere (Agere Systems), Ciclon Semiconductor (Texas Instruments), and Traffic.com (Nokia). Michael graduated UPenn (engineering), and Warton Business School (finance) as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.