Mike founded Persista to make working at companies more fun and delightful. We're building intelligent tools that connect employees to their company's ecosystem of information.Before Persista, Mike was part of the founding team at OpenGov, a financial analytics for Government company, where he served as CTO & head of product. Before OpenGov, Mike worked at Yahoo! in the Online Advertising division developing software to increase revenue in the Display Ads team. Long ago, Mike was part of the initial team that built Invoca's Performance Call Marketing platform. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. While there, he founded two successful internet-based software start-ups.