Michael Baird

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Biography

Mr. Michael Baird serves as Operating Partner at Waterline Ventures. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Avizia. He also served as Director, Technical Marketing at Cisco. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Henry Schein One. Prior to Henry Schein One, he was the founder and CEO of Avizia and served as President of Amwell after Avizia was acquired in 2018. Mike led Amwell to become the largest provider of telehealth technology and services in the country and a successful IPO in 2020. Earlier in his career, Mike held senior positions at Tandberg, Cisco, McKinsey & Company and Dell. Mike serves on the board of the American Telemedicine Association and is also a Venture Partner at Waterline Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital dedicated to digital health transformation. He holds a BS degree in accounting from Brigham Young University, an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and was designated in 2005 as a Siebel Scholar.