Michael D. Montoya is a founder and managing partner at MAPS Capital and it's subsidiary Business Ingenuity LLC., and is renowned in Silicon Valley as an expert product manager in Social Media, Social Video, Engagement, Monetization, Online Advertising, and Mobile Apps and Commerce. Prior to his successful engagements in advising senior management with some of the largest UGC sites in the world, Michael worked in a variety of senior management and individual contributor positions at companies including Cisco and Facebook.
Michael has worked in a variety of senior management positions including $23B giant Advance Publications for its American City Business Journals new media division managing 300+ B2B, B2C web-sites in supporting the company's business publications and building a 64 million dollar powerhouse. As early as 2001, Michael was an early adopter of social networking for Bizwomen and Hispanic Publishing Group's SuperOnda.
Michael has significant international business experience with Dublin Ireland based Network365 (now Valista) where he headed up the North American business development operations, Monterrey Mexico based Dextra Technologies (Grupo Pulsar) and Helsinki Finland's Tracker Software (GPS and LBS).
He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, earning his Bachelor's degree in Management of Technology. Michael also earned his MBA in Strategic Management from Santa Clara University and Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Executive Education).
His key areas are: online advertising creation (server and network), product management, international business development, business strategy in publishing, entertainment and social video/networking verticals, video commerce, user engagement, UI, SEM, SMM, monetization of apps, mobile/Facebook apps.
Michael can be reached at michael@mapscapital.com.
