Mike Katz is the Senior Managing Director of Benson Capital Partners (BCP) and has overseen the firm’s day-to-day operations since its founding. Initially created by Gayle Benson as her private investment office, BCP also manages over $100 million in external capital across two funds. Mike grew up in Silicon Valley and married a New Orleanian. He spent the first half of his career as venture capitalist in San Francisco and New York at first like Battery Ventures and Greycroft before helping start the U.S. investment practice for the Alibaba Group. In 2018, he moved full-time to New Orleans. He Received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown, his MBA from Columbia, and is an adjunct professor at Tulane teaching entrepreneurial management. Mike and his wife Blaire, have two young daughters.