Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 16
Number of Founded Organizations 5
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Mike joined Sutter Hill Ventures as Managing Director in 2008. Mike is the Lead Independent Director at Snowflake Computing (SNOW), where he served as Founding CEO and Founding investor. Previously Mike was Co-Chairman of Pure Storage (PSTG) before and after its 2015 IPO and served as Pure’s Founding CEO and Founding investor. Mike has served as

Founding CEO at several other Sutter Hill Ventures’ portfolio companies and is currently a Board Director at Clumio, Ghost Locomotion, Lacework, Observe, Sigma Computing, Sila Nano, Transposit, and several unannounced projects. He led the Series B of Sumo Logic (SUMO) and served as a Board Director from 2011 until 2019. He is a Faculty Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mike previously worked at Yahoo!, Symantec, co-founded Epinions.com, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and was an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston. Mike earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar and he earned a B.A. from the University of Arizona.

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 10
Mike Speiser has 2 current jobs as Co-Founder at Lacework and Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Additionally, Mike Speiser has had 10 past jobs including Lecturer In Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Lecturer In Management20162019
Yahoo
Vice President, Community20062008
NortonLifeLock
Vice President Product Management and Product Marketing20012006
Epinions
Co-Founder, Director of Marketing19992001
McKinsey & Company
Associate19981999
Apple
Campus Representative19891992
Veritas Technologies
VP of Product Marketing and Product Management
Credit Suisse First Boston
Analyst
Clover
CEO2010
Bix
Co-founder and CEO
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 16
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Mike Speiser holds 16 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Luminary Cloud, Founding Investor & Board Member at Clumio, and Board Observer at The Level Hot Pantry.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Bracket Computing
Director20112015
Clover
Director20102012
Number of Events 1
Mike Speiser has participated in 1 event, TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 on Sep 8, 2014.