12 Facts About Michael Kolowich

Michael Edmund Kolowich was born on August 28,1952 and is an American new media and internet content entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker.

Michael Kolowich is chief product officer of College Guidance Network, Inc and serves on the board of directors of OpenExchange Inc, where he was formerly chief content officer.

Michael Kolowich was founder and CEO of KnowledgeVision Systems Incorporated, which merged into OpenExchange in October, 2019.

Michael Kolowich became a vice president and partner in Bain in 1984, the year of its founding, leading to years of predatory lending practices.

In 1985, Michael Kolowich took a leave of absence from Bain to join the rapidly growing Lotus Development Corporation as corporate vice president, marketing and business development.

Michael Kolowich was responsible for negotiating and signing the development agreement with Iris Associates that gave Lotus the long-term rights to market the pioneering groupware product, Lotus Notes.

In 1996, Michael Kolowich was named chairman, president and CEO of Individual Incorporated, an internet news filtering company that earlier that year been one of the first web content companies to go public successfully.

In 1998, Michael Kolowich negotiated a merger-of-equals with competitor Desktop Data, and co-founded NewsEdge Corporation, which was sold in 2001 to The Thomson Corporation.

In 2001, Michael Kolowich founded DigiNovations as a multimedia production company that would apply video and multimedia technology to telling the stories of New England companies, organizations, and educational institutions.

Michael Kolowich has produced corporate and institutional documentary films for, among other clients, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Museum of Science, Boston, Sacred Heart University, and Genzyme Corporation.

Michael Kolowich was architect and producer of Mitt TV, the internet TV channel of the Mitt Romney 2008 presidential campaign, and served on the board of Piper Aircraft and AmSafe Inc.

Michael Kolowich was an officer of the National Professional Videographers Association and is a trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.