Michael Weider is Elected Director and Vice-Chair, OHIRC Board of Directors.

Michael is the founder and former CEO of three venture-backed startups: Watchfire, Blaze, and SHOEBOX. He has served as an independent board member at Skycure, Desktone, Klipfolio, Coherent Path, and Cloudcheckr. Michael is an active seed investor, supporting over 40 startups with early-stage funding.

From 2013 to 2020, Michael was the CEO of SHOEBOX, a hearing diagnostics company acquired by WS Audiology in 2018. He stepped down as CEO in 2020 but remains a part-time consultant for WSA and a board member for SHOEBOX.

From 2010 to 2012, Michael was the co-founder and CEO of Blaze. Blaze was a web performance optimization service acquired by Akamai in 2012. At Akamai, Michael served as a vice-president in the web performance division.From 1996 to 2007, Michael was the founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Watchfire, the largest provider of web application security testing software. Watchfire was acquired by 

 in 2007. Michael remained at IBM for three years and was responsible for the security and cloud product lines.

Michael holds a bachelor of science in engineering from Queens University. He enjoys running, biking, tennis, skiing and other outdoor activities.