Michael Wu

Bio

Michael joined in 2006 and has more than 15 years of experience from engineering and product management to venture advisory and venture capital. In 2002, he founded Blue Angel Ventures a Research Triangle Park, NC-based seed funding and venture advisory firm focusing on wireless IT, advanced materials/nanotechnology, and medical devices. He has also served in interim/turnaround management and board positions of several technology start-ups and is a founding board member of Long Island Angel Network. From 1994 to 2002, Michael held engineering, technical sales, and product management roles in fiber optics, smartphones, public safety and next-generation technologies at Nortel Networks, Ericsson, Siemens, and Nextel Communications. He was also a Graduate Research Assistant in Bioengineering at Georgia Tech Research Institute and had also worked as an avionics software developer at Messerchmitt-Boelkow-Blohm/DASA, a defense contractor in Munich, Germany. Michael utilizes CVP’s network to source technologies that fit the needs of InSitech’s client, the US Army. Michael focuses on investments in communications, sensors, guidance/navigation & control, and power & energy that can also benefit the Army and is a Board Observer in Nextreme Thermal and WiSpry. Michael earned his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Management of Technology from Georgia Tech, and B.S.E.E. (magna cum laude and Eta Kappa Nu graduate) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and German.