Michael is the Founder & CEO at Paro - leading finance and accounting freelance platform, the same platform Sharon Heath built her freelance bookkeeping career.
Fun fact: Michael loves running in the brutal Chicago winters.
Matthew R Mottola builds the human cloud, the digital and remote model of work that over half the US workforce will transition to within the next seven years.
Matthew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Venture L, the leading platform for freelancers to run their business, and author of upcoming book The Human Cloud.
Matthew has led and transformed today’s leading companies.
At Microsoft, in joint partnership with Upwork, he built the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit - the unlock for enterprises to embrace the human cloud at scale - bringing Microsoft from nascent to an industry leader in under two years. At Gigster, he built Ideation - a service that used freelance developers, data scientists, and product managers to consistently generate what should be built in the software development lifecycle. At Georgia Tech, he helped develop the entrepreneurship curriculum with Faculty of the Year awardee Arn Rubinoff and guest lectures.
Matthew is a recognized voice for leadership teams, public investors, and media. His work has been featured by Forbes and Fortune to name a few. He is an international keynote speaker, speaking at leading conferences Remote Work Summit and YPO’s Innovation Week to name a few. He is the author of StartUp Not StartDown, upcoming book The Human Cloud, and contributor to leading industry reports.
