Mike Abbott has led products from inception as well as scaled products and infrastructure for both consumers and enterprises. He most recently was the Executive Vice President of Software and Services for General Motors (GM), where he overhauled the leadership team and approach to building and delivering software. Prior to GM, Mike was the VP Engineering of Apple Cloud Services. Apple Cloud Services spans the infrastructure for all of Apple's services - from core infrastructure services like storage/networking/compute to products like iCloud, iMessage, Private Relay, Mail to the products in the Education and Enterprise space for Apple. He is also a lecturer in the CS department at Stanford University.
Prior to Apple, Mike was a visiting Scholar at Stanford' Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) doing technical research in computer vision as well as building various products that he feels that the world needs. Previously Mike was a General Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and focused on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike is an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure at scale, security, distributed systems, cloud computing and blockchain applications.
Mike is an engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor. He led the building of innovative, secure, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm and Microsoft before joining KPCB as a general partner. Mike is a member of the Board of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Foundation Board at Cal Poly, was a member of the HealthCare.gov Tech Surge Team, has held numerous board seats of both investments and companies he founded and remains an advisor to the US Digital Service effort. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.
