Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Michael Capellas is the founder of Capellas Partners. Michael Capellas is the Board Director of Cisco.Capellas, 58, has been a member of the Board of Directors since January 2006.

He served as the Chairman of the Board of VCE, LLC and the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition that preceded it from May 2010 through December 2012. Capellas served as Chief Executive Officer of VCE from May 2010 to September 2011.

Capellas has also served as a Senior Advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. since March 2010. Capellas was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Data Corporation from September 2007 to March 2010.

From October 2006 to July 2007, Capellas served as a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners. From November 2002 to January 2006, he served as Chief Executive Officer of MCI, Inc. (MCI), which had filed for bankruptcy in July 2002 and which was known as WorldCom, Inc. prior to its emergence from bankruptcy in April 2004.

From March 2004 to January 2006, he also served as that company’s President. From November 2002 to March 2004, he was also Chairman of the Board of WorldCom, and he continued to serve as a member of the board of directors of MCI until January 2006.Capellas left MCI as planned in early January 2006 upon its acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc.

Previously, Capellas was President of Hewlett-Packard Company from May 2002 to November 2002. Before the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corporation in May 2002, Capellas was President and Chief Executive Officer of Compaq, a position he had held since July 1999, and Chairman of the Board of Compaq, a position he had held since September 2000. Capellas held earlier positions as Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Compaq.

Capellas brings to the Board of Directors experience in executive roles and a background of leading global organizations in the technology industry. Through this experience, he has developed expertise in several valued areas including strategic product development, business development, and finance.