Michael Ortner Email & Phone Number

Michael Ortner is Chairman of Cana Academy, a nonprofit that mentors humanities teachers to lead Great Books seminars. He serves on the boards of the Religious Freedom Institute, a nonprofit that promotes religious freedom for everyone, and A Simple House, a nonprofit that provides friendship ministry to the poor. He previously volunteered for Exodus Youth Services, a street ministry in Washington, DC, and for Nyumbani, an AIDs orphanage in Kenya.Mike is an early stage investor in GoodSeeker, Classic Learning Test, Presidio Healthcare, Gather, Catholic Gigs, Arctaris, and Coronado Homes.He was the CEO of Capterra, an award winning technology company sold to Gartner in 2015. Mike cofounded Capterra in 1999 as a web service that helps connect buyers and sellers of business software and later in 2008 became the first website to launch business software reviews. With over 25 million people using the service annually to find and compare virtually any kind of business software ranging from CRM and Project Management to EMR and Church Management, it is one of the largest B2B websites of all time. More than 30,000 software companies are currently listed with over 250,000 software product reviews. Capterra won many awards ranging from the Inc. 500 list as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States to the Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work.He has a business degree from Georgetown University and a philosophy degree from the University of London. Originally from Malvern, PA, Mike currently lives in McLean, VA with his wife and six children.