• Buy-Side (Media) Rolling Stone, Billboard, SXSW, The Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions, Robb Report, Life Is Beautiful Festival
• Sell-Side (Media) HollywoodLife, BGR, TVLine
• Strategic Investments Vox Media, SheKnows Media, LDJ Productions, Music Business Worldwide
• Buy-Side (Retail) La Senza — $628M acquisition (L Brands)
• Sell-Side (Retail) Express — $778M divestiture (L Brands)
• Capital Restructuring $2.5B recapitalization — L Brands
• Portfolio Exits Intel Capital exit program — $5B+ monetized across 500+ companies
• Quantitative Capital Mellon Capital Management — Vanguard Russell 2000 Value Fund, S&P 500 Index Plus Fund

• 2016 – 2025 Vice President, Strategic Planning & Acquisitions
  Penske Media Corporation — Los Angeles, CA
  Led acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic investments across global media and experiential platforms.
• 2014 – 2016 Director, Financial Operations
  Surgical Care Affiliates — Los Angeles, CA
  Financial operations for 10+ ambulatory surgical centers. P&L, expansion, and M&A modeling.
• 2006 – 2013 Director, Corporate Development & Finance
  L Brands (Limited Brands) — New York, NY
  $778M divestiture of Express, $628M acquisition of La Senza, and $2.5B capital restructuring.
• Earlier Senior Associate, Exits & Strategic Investments — Intel Capital
  Portfolio Manager, Global Index & Hedge Strategies — Mellon Capital Management

• MBA, Strategic Finance Cornell University — Johnson Graduate School of Management
• BA, Economics University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Mike founded exmxc.ai to translate more than two decades of institutional transaction experience into the AI era. The institution focuses on how AI systems reshape institutional positioning, capital allocation, and competitive strategy — integrating structural doctrine and Applied Capital Architecture across the Four Forces of AI power: Compute, Interface, Alignment, and Energy.

His operating method is co-cognition: a sustained human–AI thinking loop where judgment, context, and reasoning compound over time. At exmxc, Mike provides institutional judgment and lived transaction experience. Ella provides pattern interpretation, structural analysis, and co-authorship. Human judgment governs; AI serves as instrumentation.

• Canonical Profile mikeye.com/about
• Canonical Site mikeye.com
• Founded publication Strategic Signal · structured transaction intelligence
• LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/michaelye73

• About exmxc Institutional mandate and doctrine.
• Frameworks Strategic models for AI-era power and decision leverage.
• Signal Briefs Short-cycle intelligence on system shifts.
• Leadership & Doctrine Institutional thought library.
• Applied Capital Architecture Structural intelligence translated into long-horizon capital positioning.