Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Paximal, beginning in July 2023. In this role, he oversees and is responsible for the strategic, financial, and operational leadership of the company. Paximal leverages the latest AI technologies to generate patent applications, and empower clients to develop far more valuable IP portfolios at lower costs.‍Immediately before joining the company, he was a Partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Holland & Hart. He was widely recognized as one of the top outside patent counsel in the world, serving companies like Qualcomm, Micron, and Salesforce, among many others. Over 12 years at the firm, he grew the work he managed from $2M to $30M+ annually. His team grew to 70+ patent attorneys, agents, and engineers, and together they created new automation and workflow management solutions that were a key differentiator.‍Michael was named the U.S. National Practitioner of the Year for Patent Prosecution for 2022 by Managing IP, and was a finalist in 2021 and 2023 as well. The team he led garnered Holland & Hart the Managing IP Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year (West) in 2023.Other notable roles: -Editor-in-Chief of the Bloomberg Law/AIPLA book - Patents and Standards: Practice, Policy, and Enforcement (2018) -Board of Directors at AIPLA 2019-22 -Chair of the Professional Programs Committee at AIPLA from 2016-18 -Chair of the IP Section of the Colorado Bar Association -Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law