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Mike Grandinetti is Chief Marketing & Corporate Strategy officer at Reduxio, his VC-backed tech startup. He has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across seven very successful ventures, was involved as an early team member in the launch of several successful new businesses within Hewlett-Packard and holds long-standing faculty appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Hult International Business School. He also served as a senior management consultant with McKinsey.

As a serial entrepreneur, Mike was involved in the formation of 7 advanced B2B technology start-ups and has helped lead all seven venture-backed start-up companies to

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Under his leadership, Reduxio was awarded the Global Innovation Award. Reduxio has created a lot of buzz for the most innovative data storage management service in the industry. Read more here.

He is also a published author and contributes to Forbes and MoneyInc regularly.

Competent Practitioner outside of the classroom

successful exits (twice a multiple exit) for his VC investors, including 2 NASDAQ IPOs and 7 high multiple trade sales to global strategies like ATT, IBM and Oracle.

Mike serves on the Board of Directors of numerous US and international startups in fields as diverse as Cyber security, hybrid cloud data storage, medical devices and equipment, big data, enterprise software, financial technology and music festival management software. He is an active and top-rated mentor in top rated accelerator programs such as TechStars (ranked #2 in the US), BetaSpring (ranked #11 in the US), the Founders Institute and the MassChallenge as well as IBM SmartCamp and startupbootcamp internationally.

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