Prior to joining Magnetar Capital in 2007, Michael was the Managing Director of the Special Situations Group at Deutsche Bank. In this role, he invested in various structured credit asset classes via debt, equity and asset purchase investments. Previously, he spent more than ten years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. From 2001 to 2005 he was the Vice president and Co-Head of Cash CDOs and Synthetic ABS. In his prior position, he was the Vice President of the Whole Loan Desk, where he traded subordinate residential mortgage bonds and whole loans. Before that, as an Associate in the Special Situations Group, he acquired and managed non-performing and illiquid portfolios of residential, consumer and commercial mortgage loans. He started in 1992 as an analyst in the Structured Finance Group.

Michael earned a Master in Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Princeton University.