Bio

Michael Orbach is a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital and leads the firm’s Technology practice. With over 30 years of operational and transactional experience, he has closed more than 90 public, private and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financings, in enterprise software, digital media, IT security, cloud computing, infrastructure software, mobile solutions and technology-enabled services. Michael joined Cascadia from Pagemill Partners, where he served as a Managing Director. Prior to Pagemill, he was a founding member of ABB New Ventures Ltd, the corporate finance and venture capital group of ABB Ltd, where he was Managing Director of the ABB Industrial IT Venture Fund. During his career as a software entrepreneur, Michael co-founded and managed Simulation Sciences from inception through its IPO; and then sold the business to Invensys plc (LSE: ISYS). He also led a technology and service company M&A for Aspen Technology (NASDAQ:AZPN) and he co-founded Skyva International, which was later sold to ABB Ltd. (VIRTX: ABBN). Michael holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and an M.B.A from the University of Washington.