Michael and other professionals with extensive experience in the electric and gas industries founded The NorthBridge Group in 1992. He has worked with both utility and non-utility clients to develop initiatives in strategy, marketing, pricing, wholesale market design, investment recovery plans, and generation investment. He has wide ranging experience in electric restructuring, including engagements related to the introduction of competitive wholesale and retail electricity markets, the benefits and costs of RTO membership, and the development of individual utility retail restructuring proposals.

Michael is a nationally recognized authority on the subject of electric industry restructuring and wholesale market design, and has been an expert witness in a number of proceedings involving these topics, including hearings and technical conferences at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and rulemaking proceedings at state regulatory and energy commissions.

Before state regulatory commissions, he has testified on behalf of utility clients about a wide range of electric regulatory issues including ratemaking, financing, resource planning, and utility reorganization to enable retail competition. He has also testified on the subject of the costs and benefits associated with RTO membership, and whether RTO membership is in the public interest.

At FERC, the issues he has addressed include Locational Marginal Pricing and Financial Transmission Rights, Regional Transmission Organizations market rules and transmission cost allocation policies, incorporation of environmental considerations into market design and pricing tariffs, resource adequacy, and transmission expansion pricing policy.

Michael is a former adjunct research fellow at the Energy and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Before founding NorthBridge, he was a Managing Director at Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Inc., where he co-directed the firm's regulated industry practice.

Michael received an A.B. in chemistry, with honors, from Harvard University, and an M.S. in management from the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.