Michael Marks

Michael is a founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, a venture capital firm focused on global technology companies. Prior to Celesta, Michael was a founding partner of Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and served as Partner and Senior Advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. He spent 13 years as CEO and then chairman of Flextronics International Ltd., building it into a technology company. Michael also served as an Interim CEO at Tesla.

Michael served as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford Graduate Business School from 2008 - 2017, and is currently a Board Director for over 20 companies. He previously served as a Director for Schlumberger Limited, GoPro, and SanDisk, among others.