Michael is a Canadian serial entrepreneur with nine start-ups under his belt and more than 25
years of experience in technology, innovation, business and creativity. Currently he is the
Founder and CEO of MYND Therapeutics, a Vancouver-based digital health company that makes novel digital therapeutics to improve access, delivery, affordability, experience and health outcomes for everyone. MYND combines science, clinical practice, AI, immersive technologies, gamification and story-telling to deliver digital therapeutics that democratize healthcare and digitize medicine for the benefit of patients, providers and payers. Michael has been in the VR/AR/XR space since 2017.

Previously, Michael was the Founder and CEO of INTERFACE Health, the world’s first truly virtual digital health technology accelerator that grew from 50 members to +5,000 members in less than two years. Michael advised, mentored and worked with over 750 digital health startups from around the world. He was also the founding CEO of SANOTRON- Canada’s Centre for Wireless and Digital Health Innovation, a national health tech accelerator.

With more than 15 years of experience in digital health, Michael was recognized as one of the
Top 50 Most Influential Voices in Healthcare in May 2022 by Medika Life from New York. Remarkable scientists, physicians, innovators and influencers like Dr. Junaid Bajwa at Microsoft, Dr. Cheryl Pegus at Walmart, John Nosta at Nosta Labs, Dr. Allyson Ocean at Weill Cornell Medicine and others made the cut. In 2017 Michael was recognized as a Champion of Innovation by the BC Institute of Technology.

Prior to his ventures in digital health, Michael spend five years in the digital media industry in
Vancouver also known as “Hollywood North” and more than a decade in the Internet, direct marketing and advertising and mobile. He was the founding President of DigiBC, Canada’s largest digital media and wireless industry association where he worked closely with world- class talent and global brands in video games, animation and VFX such as EA, Disney, PIXAR, Ubisoft, Image Engine, SONY Pictures Imageworks, TELUS and others.