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Michael Orbach is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor, advising Cascadia’s bankers and their clients in the firm’s Technology and Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practices. With over 30 years of operational and transactional experience, Michael has closed more than 120 public, private and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financings, in enterprise software, digital media, IT security, cloud computing, infrastructure software, industrial automation and technology-enabled services.

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Michael Orbach is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor, advising Cascadia’s bankers and their clients in the firm’s Technology and Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practices. With over 30 years of operational and transactional experience, Michael has closed more than 120 public, private and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financings, in enterprise software, digital media, IT security, cloud computing, infrastructure software, industrial automation and technology-enabled services.

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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.

Michael is an avid golfer, skier and runner, as well as a lifelong supporter of Manchester United Football Club.

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Mark is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor in Cascadia Capital’s Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practice. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University School of Engineering and Heinz College, and frequent guest lecturer at Dartmouth and Princeton. He is also the CEO of Bloomfield Robotics, an AI-driven AgTech company. Mark is a serial technology entrepreneur and has extensive operational and transactional expertise. He was previously co-founder and CEO RoadBotics, a venture-backed AI platform used for infrastructure assessment. He was co-founder and Chairman of kWantix, a quant energy hedge fund; co-founder and CEO of kWantera, a GE Ventures-backed energy trading company; CEO of Think Through Learning, a venture-backed online tutoring company; and US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a UK-based venture capital firm and consultancy.

Earlier in his career, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments and held policy positions as a Senior Policy Analyst in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. He was also staff assistant to late U.S. Senator John Heinz and a management consultant with Booz Allen.

Mark holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

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Prior to becoming a Senior Advisor to Cascadia, Brian served as President and CEO of North Star Petroleum, a distributor of fuel and lubricants in Alaska and Hawaii. North Star is a subsidiary of Saltchuk, a diversified holding company. Bogen previously served as Vice President and Treasurer for Saltchuk.

Bogen currently serves on the Board of Hamilton Urban Partners, an apartment developer in the Seattle area and previously served on the Board of Navios, a leading global shipping company. Brian also served as President of the Northwest Forum, a group of PNW based business leaders.

An active community leader, Brian recently served as President of the Board of Directors for the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America and remains on the Executive Committee today. Brian is a board member for Long Live the Kings, a non-profit supporting wild salmon restoration and sustainable fishing and is an elected town councilperson for the town of Woodway. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for A Contemporary Theatre, Northwest Chinook Recovery, the Seattle Aquarium Society and the Greater Washington Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Brian holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and attended the Albers Graduate School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. He completed the Senior Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005.

Bogen is an Eagle Scout and is a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to the Boy Scouts of America. He enjoys golfing, fishing, and hunting.

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Jamie has personally advised on billions of dollars of innovative and industry leading transactions in his career to date, and he enjoyed being a part of building Cascadia into the firm it has become. Prior to joining Cascadia, he was a lawyer practicing corporate securities and M&A law on the East Coast for an international specialist law firm called Dechert LLP.  Before entering the legal profession, he worked in Vancouver, Canada at Colliers International, where he advised corporate and institutional clients with respect to significant commercial and residential real estate investment transactions.

Jamie holds a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Gonzaga University School of Law, where he was a Thomas More Scholar, and a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from New York University School of Law.  He is a member of the Washington and Pennsylvania State Bar Associations and holds FINRA Series 7, Series 69 and Series 79 Securities licenses.  Jamie is involved with a number of community and charitable endeavors, as well as being an active member in the business community serving in board and management advisory capacities to a number of organizations.

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