Operating Executive

Michael Todd

Michael Todd joined Silver Lake in 2021 and is an Operating Executive. Previously, Michael held various senior management positions in product and engineering at Amazon and Lab126, where he most recently started and led the Alexa Fitness Group. Prior to Alexa, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at OpenX Technologies, Inc. Michael was Manager of Engineering and Technical Operations at Google from 2004 to 2007, where he was responsible for all engineering aspects of the Google central ads/payments billing systems. Prior to starting with Google, he was a Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Red Swoosh, Inc, a peer-to-peer content delivery company subsequently sold to Akamai Technologies and Scour, Inc., a multimedia search engine sold to Centerspan Communications in 2000. Michael began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Western Research Labs in the Altavista research group building the web’s first modern image search engine. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA.