Mike Orbach

Mike Orbach is a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital and leads the firm’s Information Technology Practice.
With over 30 years of operational and transactional experience, Orbach has closed more than 90 public, private and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financings.
Orbach joined Cascadia Capital from Pagemill Partners, where he served as a Managing Director.
Prior to joining Pagemill Partners, Orbach was a partner at Stonecroft Capital.
Michael was also a founding member of ABB New Ventures Ltd, and a Managing Director of the ABB Industrial IT Venture Fund.
During his career as a software entrepreneur, Orbach co-founded and managed Simulation Sciences from inception through its IPO; he then sold the business to Invensys.
Orbach also led technology and service company M&A for Aspen Technology and co-founded Skyva International, which he later sold to ABB Ltd. Orbach has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Witwatersrand and an MBA from the University of Washington.