Michael is a cofounder and General Partner at Flare Capital Partners, a leading healthcare technology venture firm based in Boston, MA, focused on the transformation of the “business of healthcare.” Previously, Michael was the founding General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners, and earlier in his career was with Polaris Partners, as well as held positions at Wasserstein Perella & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co.

Current and prior board seats include Aspen RxHealth, BlueTarp Financial, Circulation, Cohere Health, Explorys, Functional Neuromodulation, HealthVerity, higi, Iora Health, MicroCHIPS, Nuvesse, PolyRemedy, Predictive Biosciences, Predilytics, T2 Biosystems, TARIS Biomedical, VidSys and Welltok (observer). Additionally, Michael served on the board of International Data Group, the founding partner of IDG Capital, a leading venture capital fund in China and other important innovation centers in Asia, and is on the board of The Forsyth Institute, the leading Harvard-affiliated oral health research organization.

Michael serves on various innovation and investment advisory boards for Advocate Aurora Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and MedStar Health, as well as serving on the Governor’s Digital Health Council and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Michael also serves on the Investment Committee for the Partners Innovation Fund and on is the Advisory Board of Harvard Business School’s Health Care Initiative. He was past chairman of the New England Venture Capital Association and on the board and executive committee of the National Venture Capital Association. Michael earned a B.A. with honors in chemistry from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michael authors a blog focused on venture capital, innovation and healthcare at www.ontheflyingbridge.com.

Dr. Haders has 20 years of experience in Healthcare as a scientist, entrepreneur, advisor & investor.

Dr. Haders is currently the Managing Director, Digital Health at Nex Cubed a Frontier Technology Venture Studio and Seed Investor, where he oversees an early stage investment portfolio of 23 Digital Healthcare companies that have an enterprise value of over $150M. In late 2018, Dr. Haders launched Nex Cubed’s Digital Health Accelerator, which was recently named one of the “Top Ten Global Digital Health Accelerators” and “The Best Accelerators and Incubators for FemTech Startups”. Nex Cubed Digital Health is one of the most active investors in the industry, deploying $3M across 16 investments in 2019. He is also an Operating Partner at Sway Ventures, a US- based venture capital firm, where he helps lead Digital Health investing and portfolio oversight. Dr. Haders is a Board Member and the Executive Chairman of Repurpose.ai, an AI Drug Discovery company, and a Board Observer at AppliedVR, a digital therapeutic company.

Dr. Haders is a Faculty Member and Member of the Advisory Committee of the UCSD, Digital Health Certificate Program.

Prior to his current roles, Dr. Haders held positions from research fellow to senior scientist to Co-Founder/CEO in the fields of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and nano-drug delivery.

Steve Gelsi has covered Wall Street, private equity and the media business for Reuters, MarketWatch, Forbes, Adweek and other organizations. Gelsi is also author of the 2002 book How America Made a Fortune and Lost Its Shirt, which chronicles the 1990s dot-com boom. Additionally, Gelsi has written about the cannabis business since the 1990s.