Michael founded Wpromote out of his dorm when he was an Economics and Computer Science major at Dartmouth College in 2001. Wpromote has grown to become the #1 Ranked Integrated Marketing Firms Worldwide (TopSEOs.com) and a three time Inc 500 list member. Michael is a respected member of the online marketing community; he is one of four annual invitees to the Google Client Forum, is a Yahoo Ambassador, a member of ThinkLA, a regular speaker at industry events and a regularly quoted source in the search engine marketing industry. Michael was featured as "30 CEO's under 30 To Watch" in 2007 by Inc. magazine, and in 2008 Michael was recipient of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entretech Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit.