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Michael Grubb, JD

With twenty years of experience igniting the potential of organizations and leaders, Michael Grubb coaches businesses and managers to achieve their full potential through strong relationships, self-monitoring, and taking action. With expertise in leadership, strategy, organization design, technology operations, and product management, Michael is more than a coach — he is a think partner and a trusted advisor to his clients.

Michael Grubb brings his past executive experience directly to bear on current issues. As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Technology at LookSmart, Ltd. in San Francisco, he led the technology side of the high-volume advertising and consumer internet business, with more than a billion transactions per day and more than 16 million unique visitors per month. Prior to that, at Akamai Technologies, Michael built many of the original operational and engineering groups and ran them for the first 4 years of the company. As Chief Systems Architect as well as Vice President, Operations at Akamai, he designed the organizational and technical strategy for running a global network operation with more than 15,000 servers in 66 countries, with near-flat operating expense and with 100% uptime.

Michael has the domain-specific expertise to help technical businesses thrive. Passionate about scalability of people, processes and technology, he is well-known as an innovator of new technologies and new organizational structures to support them. He has a rare combination of technical and business acumen, and both engineering and operations experience. Michael holds a bachelors degree in Philosophy from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina, and he is a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.