24 Facts About Emil Michael

Emil G Michael is an Egyptian-born American businessman.

Emil Michael attended Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson student newspaper and, in 1992, served as president of the Harvard Republican Club.

Emil Michael received his JD degree with honors from Stanford Law School.

Emil Michael started his career as a strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting's Converging Markets Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Emil Michael worked on merger and hostile takeover advisory projects and equity and bank debt financing.

Emil Michael was an executive at internet-telephony startup Tellme Networks for nine years, from June 1999 until 2008.

Emil Michael was sold to Microsoft for approximately $800 million in 2007.

Emil Michael was selected as one of 15 White House Fellows during the first year of the Obama administration, where he served as a Special Assistant to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates from 2009 until 2011.

Emil Michael has stated that he spent time on assignment in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other destinations.

Emil Michael held the COO title until September 2013 when he left to join Uber.

Emil Michael joined Uber as senior vice president of business in September 2013.

Emil Michael acted as CEO Travis Kalanick's right-hand man and helped the company raise nearly $15 billion.

Emil Michael was a key player in the development of Uber's ride-sharing efforts in China, taking an investment of $2 billion to a value of $7 billion in 2016.

Emil Michael worked on creating partnerships with Baidu and other Chinese companies.

Emil Michael, who said he believed his conversation was "off the record," later claimed merely to have asked why journalists can write what he thought were false stories and attack pieces about business people.

Emil Michael targeted Sarah Lacy, a journalist who worked for Pando Daily, who had reported on Uber's misogynist practices and culture.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick later made a series of apologetic tweets, claiming that Emil Michael's comments did not represent the company's views.

In 2014, several local Uber employees in Seoul, South Korea, invited Emil Michael to join them at a "hostess escort-karaoke bar" during a business trip.

The story came out in March 2017 when Emil Michael contacted Gabi Holzwarth, who had been in the group at the bar, to warn her about an upcoming article in the press and, Holzwarth said, to ask her to keep the visit quiet.

Emil Michael later expressed remorse and apologized for "attending and failing to prevent" the visit to the bar.

Three months after the news broke, Emil Michael left his position at Uber after four years at the company.

In 2017, Emil Michael helped negotiate a deal with Yandex, the largest technology firm and most popular internet search engine in Russia, known as the "Google of Russia," in which Uber owned 36.6 percent of a joint ride-sharing entity in Russia.

Emil Michael was the only one of the new appointees to have experience with startups.

Emil Michael married his longtime girlfriend, Julie Herrin, in a ceremony in Miami, Florida, in early 2018.