Michael Howse

Michael Howse is a Silicon Valley CEO, operator, and investor with a track record of scaling venture-backed technology companies, leading turnarounds, and driving strategic exits. He has 25+ years of experience building and scaling businesses across AI, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, gaming, and immersive technologies. Michael has raised more than $300M in venture capital financing and contributed to over $2B in enterprise value creation.

Michael is currently founder of Eleven Ventures an operationally focused investment and strategy firm. Michael's hands-on engagement with CEOs and executive teams on business strategy, go-to-market, and fundraising 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 technology later became part of Intel with more than 350M units shipped globally.

Michael was integral in creating the 3D graphics / 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.