Mr. Michael Green is Co-Founder & serves as Managing Director at Mountain State Capital. He serves as Secretary at Appalachian Investors Alliance. He serves as Chairman of West Virginia Growth Investment. He serves as Board Member at Industry Weapon. He served as Advisor at NetBeez. He served as Board Member at Valtari Bio. He leads Mountain State Capital's Morgantown, West Virginia office and is an experienced early-stage investor, successful technology executive, and community leader in the greater Appalachian region. Since 2002, he has focused on investing in and advising a portfolio of early-stage companies, including companies that were ultimately acquired by IBM and Target. He previously served as the President of Field Operations for LoudCloud, Inc., and spent a decade managing worldwide sales and marketing for Pittsburgh-based FORE Systems, Inc. He began his career as a cryptanalyst at the NSA after earning his B.S. in mathematics from Boston University and a Master's in numerical science from Johns Hopkins University.