Mike Frumkin

Michael Frumkin is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Philanthropy in the area of AI for Science. He has been at the forefront of the AI transformation in biology, chemistry, and medical research. Michael founded the Accelerated Science team in Google Research in 2012. This team partnered with leading scientific institutions and universities around the world to increase the pace of discovery in the natural sciences by bringing Google’s expertise in machine intelligence and machine perception to bear on fundamental science problems. Michael has more than 25 years of experience in technical and management leadership roles in fast-growth, high-performance technology companies, including Silicon Valley icons like NeXT and Google. He was responsible for critical engineering functions at Verity, Excite, and Google, all of whom went from startups to successful IPOs during his tenure.

In 1995, Michael joined a small 10-person startup that built one of the first full-scale commercial internet search engines that eventually became Excite@Home, a multi-billion dollar public company. In his tenure at Excite, he was responsible for core company functions like web crawl and e-commerce engineering. After Excite, Michael spent several years as the Chief Technology Officer of Gamechange Ventures, the seed stage collaboration between Accenture Technology Ventures and Softbank Venture Capital, where he was responsible for technical due diligence and providing management guidance to portfolio companies. In 2002, pursuing a desire to go back to his more technical distributed computing roots, he joined Google, where his responsibilities ranged from managing large engineering teams responsible for most of Google’s revenue to overseeing critical internal software infrastructure projects. At various points in time, he was responsible for building the engineering teams operating AdWords, the initial launch of AdSense, and building Google’s personalization infrastructure. From 2012 to 2023 Michael focused his efforts on bringing Google’s advances in AI and ML to the natural sciences via the Google Accelerated Science research team.

Michael has also been involved with many organizations in a part time advisory capacity. He was active on the scientific and technology advisory boards of companies like Verily, Mindstrong, and Box. He also served as an advisor on AI and biology issues at Khosla Ventures. He is currently an independent board member at Euronet Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT).

Michael is currently enjoying his recent retirement by traveling to unusual and remote destinations all over the planet. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.