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Michael Fertik is Managing Director and Founder of Heroic Ventures and the Executive Chairman and Founder of Reputation.com.

Heroic Ventures is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused almost exclusively on first-money and formation investing.Reputation.com is the world’s leading company in digital reputation.

A futurist with more than ten patents, Michael is credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management (ORM) and lauded as the world’s leading cyberthinker in digital privacy and reputation.

Michael was named Entrepreneur of the Year by TechAmerica, an annual award given by the technology industry trade group to an individual they feel embodies the entrepreneurial spirit that made the U.S. technology sector a global leader.

He is a member of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet, a recipient of the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award. Through his leadership, the Forum named Reputation.com, a Global Growth Company. Fertik is an industry commentator with guest columns in Harvard Business Review, Reuters, Inc.com, and Newsweek.

Fertik frequently appears on national and international television and radio, including the BBC, Good Morning America, Today Show, Dr. Phil, CBS Early Show, CNN, Fox, Bloomberg, and MSNBC. He is the co-author of two non-fiction books, Wild West 2.0 (2010) and New York Times bestseller, The Reputation Economy (2015).

Fertik founded his first Internet company while at Harvard College. He received his JD from Harvard Law School. He now teaches at Harvard Law School.