Michael Ashker Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Co-Founder, Chie...

  • Active Board Seats
  • 2

Michael Ashker General Information

Biography

Mr. Michael Ashker serves as ChairChief Executive Officer & Chairman at Fortress Fire. He serves as a Managing Partner at Agility Partners. He began his investment career in the securities industry in 1984 joining Davis Skaggs, a San Francisco based securities firm, which was acquired by Shearson Lehman/American Express. He served in various roles with sell side securities firms such as Shearson, Kemper Securities and finally Kidder Peabody. In 1994, he founded Lynx Capital Group, one of the earliest hedge funds on the West Coast, focusing on technology investing. While at Lynx, he got involved at a deeper level with several companies in its investment portfolio and eventually made a decision to transition to the operating side. His first foray began after Lynx made an investment and filed a 13D for Provident American, a publicly traded health insurance company. At Provident, he recognized the opportunity to catapult Provident into the digital health insurance business and working together with Provident's current Chairman, Al Clemens, developed the business model for the first digital health insurance agency, known as Healthaxis. Healthaxis was then formed as an operating subsidiary of Provident American where he served as President and eventually became CEO of both Provident and Healthaxis. Under his leadership, the combined companies of Provident and Healthaxis grew from a $30M to over a $2B market capitalization. During the same general period, he acquired the rights for a digital court filing system that had been piloted by Anderson Consulting (now Accenture). He then partnered with Anderson to form JusticeLink as a venture backed company. Through a series of transactions and several rounds of financing, JusticeLink became the first and preeminent digital filing company for legal documents. Later it was sold to Lexis-Nexis for approximately $100M. In 2003, he founded Imerica Life & Health Insurance Company, a start-up health insurance company and one of the early movers in consumer driven healthcare. He successful developed the business plan, recruited a senior management team and secured venture financing through Bain Capital Ventures. Imerica eventually became licensed to sell health insurance in 38 states and was sold to a banking group. During the past eight years, he has established Agility Partners to provide consulting services, investment banking and business development for early stage and transitional small-cap companies.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Fortress Fire
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Degree
Gender
Male
Email
ma
Phone
+1 (916)
Address
  • 4220 Duluth Avenue
  • Suite A
  • Rocklin, CA 95765
  • United States
+1 (916)

Michael Ashker Positions (2)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Agility Partners Investor Managing Partner Gold River, CA Venture Capital
Fortress Fire Company Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman San Mateo, CA Security Services (B2B)

Michael Ashker Board Seats (2)

Company Industry Ownership Status Financing Status Location Since
Fortress Fire Security Services (B2B) Privately Held (backing) Venture Capital-Backed San Mateo, CA
Social Firestarter Media and Information Services (B2B) Privately Held (backing) Formerly VC-backed Lakeland, FL

Michael Ashker Network (5)

Board Members (5)

Name Company Representing Location From
Robert Burnham Fortress Fire Fortress Fire San Mateo, CA
Curt Perata Fortress Fire EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants San Mateo, CA
Fortress Fire Self San Mateo, CA
Fortress Fire CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS San Mateo, CA
Fortress Fire Self San Mateo, CA

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    Michael Ashker holds 2 board seats including Fortress Fire and Social Firestarter.

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