Michael Baum (entrepreneur)
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| Born |
Michael Joseph Baum May 28, 1962 (age 55) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Residence |
San Francisco, California and Paris, France |
| Education |
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Drexel University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthrapist |
| Known for | Founder & CEO of FOUNDER.org Co-founder & CEO of Splunk Founder of Big Data Supper Club Co-founder of Collation VP e-Commerce at Yahoo! Co-founder & COO of DotBank VP e-Commerce at Disney Co-founder & CEO of 280 Co-founder & CEO of Pensoft Co-founder & CTO at Reality |
| Parent(s) | Mardell A. Baum Richard L. Baum, Sr. |
| Website | founder |
Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management,security forensics,compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Baum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended high school at Cherry Hill High School East where he was aNew Jersey state high school swimmer for four years. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Drexel University where his focus was on artificial intelligence and compiler and language theory. During his studies he worked as an intern at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab developing language parsing engines and with IBM Entry Systems Division where he was a software engineer responsible for power on self-diagnostics on the original IBM PC BIOS. He went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration with a focus on corporate finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time at Wharton, Baum played hooker with the Wharton Rugby Team started the Wharton Venture Capital Club.
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