Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.linkedin.com/in/michaelyuen1 Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Michael is a software entrepreneur and filmmaker. He was Founder & CEO of Apptera, an enterprise-class speech recognition app platform. He designed the first easy-to-use platform for developing and managing speech applications, named SpeechTek Product of the Year. Michael brought in Bank of America as the first customer. Apptera now handles
over 100 million calls per year. Customers include Bank of America, AT&T, Fandango, Moviefone and MovieTickets.com The company is funded by VC firms including Lightspeed, Walden, Warburg Pincus.
Michael's interests include screenplay writing and filmmaking. He wrote and is executive producing a romantic comedy "Spaghetti vs. Noodle" for which he won The Best Pitch for a Feature Film at the Sundance Producers Conference. Michael is a member of the Writers Guild and Producers Guild of America.
Michael studied aerospace engineering at UCLA and earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He holds a patent in voice application system.
