Michael Rothrock

As a co-founder of Praxie, Michael is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with vast experience spanning both large enterprises and successful start-ups. With two decades of experience in large scale collaboration, mobility, and mission critical systems, Michael formerly served as Chief Platform Officer at MaxPlay. At MaxPlay, Michael led the technology vision and team responsible for creating a high performance, scalable system that powered a next-generation live collaboration experience. Michael’s vision and hands-on work in “high speed collaboration” was patented by the company and become a key competitive differentiator. Prior to MaxPlay, Michael co-founded ionGrid where he served as VP of Product and Services, building the company and leading it to a successful sale to NetApp. Earlier in his career, Michael held a series of positions with increasing responsibility at Interwise (acquired by AT&T), Orative (acquired by Cisco), and Portal Software (IPO).