Michael Sonnenfeldt
Michael Sonnenfeldt is the Founder and Chairman of TIGER 21, a global networking group for entrepreneurs. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. Through his private investment company, MUUS & Company, Sonnenfeldt has holdings in solar, battery, and other technologies related to alternative energy infrastructure applications. In 1980, Sonnenfeldt led the world’s then-largest commercial renovation project, transforming the 2.4 million square foot Harborside Financial Center in Jersey City, NJ.
Michael Sonnenfeldt Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chairman
Academic History
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MS, Management
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BS, Management
- Sonnenfeldt has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
- He is a passionate sailor, photographer, and designer of clothing generally based on his own photographs or textiles from Japan.
- He has been actively involved at senior levels in numerous non-profit organizations focused on the environment, national security, international peacekeeping, and communal development.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
PAST APPOINTMENTS
- Chairman of the Executive Committee of The United Nations Association
- Board Member of Business Executives for National Security
- Board and Executive Committee Member of the Synergos Institute
- Board Member of the Arnold P Gold Foundation
- Co-Founder and Chairman of The Humpty Dumpty Institute, where he led Peacekeeping Inspection teams to 28 conflict and war zones during the 1990s
- Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School, where he developed and co-taught a course on “Business and the Nation’s Security.”