Michael co-founded Triangle Peak Partners, LP, a multi-strategy asset management firm focused on venture capital and growth equity, in 2008. He currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Since 2004, Michael has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Portcullis Partners, LP, a private investment partnership and one of Triangle Peak Partners’ largest limited partners. He also currently serves as the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America – a company he joined at its founding in 1997. At Kinder Morgan, Michael headed the company’s corporate development efforts, completing 23 acquisitions worth over $5 billion, before becoming the company’s President, a position he held until 2004.
Michael has served on the board of Sunnova Energy International, Inc. (NYSE: NOVA), a leading residential solar and energy storage company, since June 2019. He first joined the board of NOVA’s predecessor (Sunnova Energy Corporation) in October 2015, served as Lead Director until March 2016 and remained on that board until NOVA’s initial public offering in June 2019. Michael previously served on the boards of directors of two public energy funds affiliated with Kayne Anderson (NYSE: KYN and KYE) and on the boards of directors of Bunchball, Lytx and SCIenergy.
Michael is a frequent volunteer at Stanford University, currently serving as the national chair of The Stanford Fund, as co-chair of the Precourt Energy Institute Advisory Council and on several other advisory committees. He previously served as an Adjunct Professor in the Practice of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston. Michael received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, and Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Stanford University.