Michael Bervell

MICHAEL BERVELL is a Ghanaian-American angel-investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and philosopher. He currently serves as the youngest President of the Harvard Club of Seattle and works as a Portfolio Development Manager at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Capital Fund.

Bervell's blog BillionDollarStartupIdeas.com has been viewed by more than 750,000 people around the world. In 2007, he co-founded “Hugs for” an international, student-run non-profit organization with operations in 6 countries that has impacted over 300,000 youth. Because of this work, Bervell was awarded the National Caring Award in 2015, alongside Pope Francis and Dikembe Mutombo.

He received a Bachelor’s in philosophy from Harvard College and a Master’s in communication from the University of Washington. Find him at MichaelBervell.com.