Michael Tennenbaum

Prior to founding TCP in 1999, and its predecessor entity in 1996, Mr. Tennenbaum was a Wall Street executive where he managed various departments of a major investment bank including Investment Banking, Risk Arbitrage and Options. Mr. Tennenbaum has served on the boards of a number of both public and private companies. His board service has included the chairmanship of all significant board committees as well as of the boards themselves.

Currently, Mr. Tennenbaum is a member of the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel; a Board member of The RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy and the Smithsonian Institution National Board; a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Board of Overseers; a member of the UCLA School of Medicine Board of Visitors; and Founder of the Tennenbaum Interdisciplinary Center at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and of the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Endowed Chair in Creativity Research.

He was a Commissioner on the Intercity High-Speed Rail Commission for California and was Chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He served as Chairman of the Special Financial Advisory Committee to the Mayor of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Committee on University Resources (COUR) at Harvard University; a previous member of the Board of Associates of Harvard Business School and was a member of its Visiting Committee; and a previous Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Chairman of its Investment Committee.

In addition, he served as a member of the National Advisory Board of Georgia Tech and as a Trustee of the Georgia Institute of Technology Foundation, Inc., where he was Chairman of its Investment Committee, and currently is Trustee Emeritus. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni of Georgia Tech's College of Engineering and Founder of the Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation at the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

• M.B.A. (honors) from the Harvard Business School
• B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology