Managing Director

Ed Michael serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards of directors. In his role as Managing Director of Future Factory, he works with the Investment Committee in making investment decisions, overseeing portfolio companies and working with their management teams to achieve growth and profit.

He is Chairman of the Board of GuideStar Clinical Trials Management a Chicago-based company which provides comprehensive, outsource clinical trials management services to medical facilities and physician practices across the country. In addition, he serves on the Board of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, a wet lab incubator and a Good Manufacturing Practices laboratory for stem cell, vector and DNA production.

Ed Michael founded American LIFECARE, a multi-state managed care organization, now a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Regent Health System, a rural hospital chain. He was a founding member of the Louisiana Health Care Commission. Earlier in his career he served as a commercial bank president.

He has held several appointments in the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. In 2004 he received the university’s Champion of Public Health Award.

Ed Michael supports micro-lending initiatives in the third world through his roles as Treasurer and Trustee of Freedom from Hunger and Guarantor of MicroCredit Enterprises, both based in northern California. He has served as a healthcare system examiner in Cuba, Syria, Jordan, Israel and the occupied territories on behalf of the Human Rights Project, Washington, D.C. And he has been a delegate to Academy of International Health Studies trade missions to Rome and Hong Kong.

Ed Michael received his Master of Business Administration degree from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.