Michael G. Levine
About Michael G. Levine
I started my professional career in investment banking. After I received my MBA from Wharton, I went into commercial banking and rose to become head of M&A for one of the New York money center banks while I was still in my 20’s. I spent the next seven years as part of a management team that built up a $2 billion telecom/technology business. In 2007, I became CFO of a publicly-traded software/technology company, which I helped take private via a management buyout in 2009 and managed a successful exit in 2010 while retaining certain technologies for the launch of a new business. In October 2010, I assumed the leadership role of a DMC Capital Funding portfolio company engaged in the IOT/M2M, LBS and GPS tracking markets. In October 2011, I joined Payoneer, a global B2B payments business as CFO. Payoneer began in 2005 and has securely delivered payments to millions of businesses around the world in over 190 countries. We took Payoneer public in June 2021 with an equity value over $3 billion. Payoneer processes over $60 billion in volume per year and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker PAYO. In June 2023, I joined Fireblocks, a leading Enterprise SaaS company offering a suite of secure applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build businesses on the blockchain. Fireblocks' Series E round in 2022 was based on an $8 billion valuation. Fireblocks' investors include Stripes, Paradigm, Tenaya, Cyberstarts, Ribbit, D1, Sequoia, General Atlantic, Index, Iconiq, Coatue, CapitalG, 8 Roads, Spark, Swisscom, BNY Mellon and many more. Specialties: C-level executive with strong strategic and operations background and ability to build infrastructure to scale growth. Responsible for managing all functions of a business. Successful in developing and executing strategies to grow companies ranging from annual revenues of $5 million to $2 billion.