Michael Dolbec
About Michael Dolbec
Former Executive Managing Director GE Ventures - Venture Industrialist, redistributor of the industrial future, a humble gold miner in the Sierra Foothills of the Industrial Metaverse The AI landscape is shifting ... from Data to Knowledge-based strategies. Predictions, enabled by massive data sets are skyrocketing the value of business decisions they enable and human judgment they augment. Ideas are a commodity. Transforming them into commercial reality and putting it into production at scale is priceless. "Innovationist", "Inventurist", "venture industrialist" ... take your pick. I am passionate about transforming big ideas into successful innovations, products, and services. I'm focused on the digital transformation of industries and servitization of products. Concentrating on: industrial IoT, edge computing, digital twin, big data, AI/ML/machine intelligence, and cybersecurity. The scope of the work is global and disruptive. I develop partner eco-systems around technology platforms and I help companies grow via partnerships, investments, and acquisitions. I'm energized by helping companies combine external innovations together with internal ones to achieve new products and services. Specialties: • Strategic Investments: set up, team leadership, 18X return on realizations of $1.01B • Fund Raising: raised over $250 million in private equity. • M&A: sourcing, diligence, negotiation, acquisition/divestiture, integration • Open Innovation: sourcing, negotiation, joint development partnerships, joint ventures • Entrepreneur: co-founded award-winning mobile internet startup, 200 employees, IPO, sold to Earthlink