Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration

Lehigh University

Board Member at Long Beach Mombasa (Kenya) Sister Cities Association

FoundersBoost is a mentor-driven pre-acceleration Chapter that runs for 6 weeks and meets once a week for 3 hours.  There is no cost in dollars or equity for the founders to be part of the program and the goal is to prepare startups for accelerators or seed investors by providing pitch coaching, mentorship and connections. The program has helped startups to get into accelerators (incl. Techstars, 500 Startups, Plug n Play etc.) and raise over $155m+ in funding.

FoundersBoost (formerly Startup Boost)

Lead Mentor

San Diego Tech Hub represents a movement aimed at changing the perception of the San Diego tech ecosystem. Our focus is to be a conduit for change connecting businesses, organizations, and individuals, leveraging their resources and talents to build a stronger San Diego tech community through collaboration.

San Diego Tech Hub

Founding Member

AI Angel Club is a professional investment club interested in domestic and foreign startups in the fields of biotechnology, health care, as well as tech and manufacturing.

AI Angel Club, Seoul, South Korea

Member

Wild Horse Labs (www.wildhorselabs.com) is a Business Growth Accelerator of World-Class Industry Experts with diverse backgrounds, who have extensive experience in supporting start-ups and small businesses. Wild Horse Labs offers a wealth of funding connections, education and mentorship to entrepreneurs and business owners who are open to learning new and innovate ways to build something bigger & better.  We help entrepreneurs attract funding and receive other essential resources beyond capital.

We have international affiliates in Ghana, Kenya, Romania, South Korea, and Spain.

Wild Horse Labs, Inc.

Principal

Loyola Marymount University is dedicated to instilling the entrepreneurial spirit into all students, regardless of their future career options as employees in larger firms, or as the creators of new ventures. LMU began formally teaching entrepreneurship in 1972, and today has a concentration in entrepreneurship at both the graduate (MBA) and undergraduate levels.

We are proud to have an exceptionally global outlook in our entrepreneurial activities, and in recent years we have been active in our entrepreneurial development activities in such far flung locations as Russia, Germany, Singapore, China and Ireland.

Speakers + Community Heroes - Today's entrepreneurial stars are helping develop tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Students get to learn from successful entrepreneurs with the Hilton Distinguished Entrepreneurs Speaker Series and our Dinner with a Winner events. We're also proud to celebrate our alumni (Alumni Wall of Honor)who return to LMU to share what they've learned with current students.

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California

Entrepreneur in Residence - School of Entrepreneurship, Los Angeles, California

Goals of Sister Cities International (https://mlbsca.org): 

Develop municipal partnerships between U.S. cities, and similar jurisdictions in other nations
Provide opportunities for city officials and citizens to explore other cultures through Long Term community partnerships.
Create an atmosphere in which economic and community development can be implemented and strengthened.
Stimulate environments through which communities will creatively learn, work and solve problems together through reciprocal cultural, educational, municipal, business, professional and technical exchanges and projects.
Collaborate with organizations in the United States and other countries with similar goals

Long Beach Mombasa Sister Cities Association

Board Member

Largest angel investment organization in the U.S., founded in 1997.
Over 300 members in 5 regional Networks covering all of Southern California.
Our members have diverse backgrounds in almost every industry (not just tech).
Many of our members are entrepreneurs and have experience in running start-ups.

We have invested in over 200 companies.
Our members have invested over $120 million in these companies.
Our portfolio companies have gone on to attract over $1 billion in additional investment capital.

Tech Coast Angels, Los Angeles, California

Green LAVA is the Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association focusedon opportunities and challenges coincident with the design, development and deployment of sustainable products, services and businesses

Los Angeles Venture Association

Chair - Clean Tech Committee

The Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (SACC-LA) was founded in 1988. It is one of 20 local chambers across the United States, cooperating under the umbrella of SACC-USA. Together the chambers form a nationwide Swedish-American business network, which has served as a forum for Swedish and American business people since it was founded in 1906.

SACC Los Angeles (LA) covers the geographic area of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura, Kern, San Bernardino and Santa Barbara Counties, with a population of about 17 million people. SACC-LA arranges seminars and business meetings, provides information about Sweden and the U.S. and directs Swedish and American business requests to appropriate contacts within the Chamber Membership.

Michael Miller