Michael serves as the Chief Financial Officer of FreeWire. Prior to joining FreeWire, Michael served as Head of Financial Strategy at Luminar Technologies, ushering the company through their go-public transaction (resulting in roughly $1B in total capital raised between 2017-2021). Prior to joining Luminar, Michael spent seven years at Citibank in Hong Kong & Singapore focusing on the Pan-Asia transportation, logistics, and infrastructure space. From 2006-2010, he covered the North American freight transportation sector at Bear Stearns and subsequently Wolfe Research in New York. Michael previously covered the Energy patch and began his career at Goldman Sachs. He has been a frequent contributor to CNBC, Wall Street Journal, FT, Barron’s, South China Morning Post, and the Journal of Commerce, among others. Michael received his undergraduate degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona and completed his MBA at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).