Michael Brown
Partner at Shield Capital; Former Director
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2022 - Current
Strider is a strategic intelligence firm that utilizes artificial intelligence to convert publicly available data into actionable insights.
Raised $112,000,000.00 from DataTribe, Valor Equity Partners, AXA Venture Partners, Cyfr Capital and Pelion Venture Partners.
Board of Advisors
2022
CNAS is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that develops pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
Board Member and Investor
2017
Comprehensive medical device automation and management powered by AI
Asimily's IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care.
Raised $19,970,000.00 from Ridge Ventures, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Engineering Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners and Eileses Capital.
Partner
2022 - 2024
Shield Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building frontier technologies.
Visiting Scholar
2022 - 2024
Director
2018 - 2022
Accelerating adoption of advanced commercial technology to the military
DIUx is designed to create a hub for increased communication with the innovation ecosystem.
Board of Trustees
2013 - 2021
The Berklee College of Music Board of Trustees are the primary fiduciaries of the college and are familiar with Berklee’s mission, objectives, policies, and programs. Trustees have a strong interest in the future of the college and are ambassadors of the college.
Presidential Innovation Fellow
2016 - 2018
Working with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) at the Defense Department
CEO
2014 - 2016
As President and CEO of Symantec, the world’s leading cybersecurity firm, we refocused our business on security (selling the Veritas software business), articulated a new company strategy to leverage our strengths in security, recruited a new executive team, continued to change our business model towards security-as-a-service and improved profitability.
Board Member
2003 - 2016
I joined Symantec's Board of Directors following the company's merger with Veritas Software in July 2005.
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Board Member
2011 - 2014
In 2011, I invested in and joined the board of the Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform with the world’s largest repository of data about music powering some of the world’s most widely used music services: Spotify, Sirius XM, Clear Channel and Vevo. In March 2014, Spotify purchased Echo Nest.