Michael Gatzke is a strategic business executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience in both mature and high growth companies. He is skilled in building business by identifying the market opportunity, crafting a vision, developing core strategies, hiring and training talent, and leading high-performing teams.
Michael's expertise is in strategic planning, product and corporate development and positioning for media companies, business development and direct response marketing. Michael was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Media Practice where he worked for clients like PBS, NPR, Intelsat, Discovery, and Verizon Superpages. He left McKinsey to help AOL build their own internal consulting practice and later joined StoneAcre Partners where he ran the Official NASCAR Members Club.
Michael has a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University and an MA and a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton. Prior to his work in the media space, Michael was a Research Fellow at NIST where he developed the prototype for the Atomic Clock that is the current time standard for the US and before that was a Lecturer and Research Associate in the Physics Department at the University of Virginia.
