Michael Howse

Michael Howse is a technology CEO and investor with a demonstrated track record of driving value creation and profitable growth through innovation. He has 25+ years of experience building and scaling businesses across semiconductors, cloud services, mobile and computer gaming.

Michael is currently Founder and General Partner of Eleven Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on AI services, cloud platforms and enabling technology companies that has resulted in exits to AMD, Amazon Web Service and a NASDAQ IPO. Prior to Eleven Ventures, Michael served as corporate Vice President of new ventures at AMD, where he was recruited as a member of the turnaround team. Previously, he was CEO of Bigfoot Networks, where he was hired as the Series B CEO, scaled the Killer branded game networking products, and led the company through its acquisition by Qualcomm. Killer networking has been distributed in over 350M PCs.

Michael was integral in creating the GPU category while serving in executive roles at Creative Labs, S3 and 3dfx Interactive. As senior vice president of marketing and business development at 3dfx, he conceived and executed the strategy that increased revenue from $20 million to more than $400 million in three years by creating one of the PCs first major technology brands with the "Voodoo" line of 3D game accelerators.

Mr. Howse has received industry awards, including “Marketer of the Year” from MC / Brandweek and is a recipient of an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award for his pioneering work at Total Vision, a company he founded. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund; on the board of Boise State University Micro Electronics Research Institute; as a senior advisor to various venture capital funds, as well as board member to multiple startups.