Michael Hauser, VP & Managing Partner, SAIC Innovation Fund
Michael Hauser is a Vice President and helps lead the Partnerships, Innovation, and Strategic Partnerships team at SAIC. His primary role is as Managing Partner of the SAIC Innovation Fund where Michael leads corporate venture capital investments into and enterprise platform use of dual-use and national security startups. He is also responsible for the governance and execution of enterprise product & technology investments across SAIC.
Michael previously built and deployed SAIC’s business maturity-driven approach to product management and grew the commercial products business around it, contributing new offerings that differentiate and unlock growth.
Throughout his career, he has held a variety of leadership roles among companies with organic & inorganic growth responsiblities. He’s been a strategy, M&A, BD, and innovation leader at Boeing including co-founding and contributing to Boeing HorizonX’s CVC and global startup accelerators, internal business incubator, and B2B collaboration team.
Prior to his roles at Boeing was an innovation & business model consultant at NewEdge+TheBrewery and Corporate Executive Board. Before and after Boeing Michael held investing, coaching, mentoring, and business building roles with venture capital backed startups.
Early in his career, Michael participated in a engineering leadership development program at Pratt & Whitney before following his passions from engineering into business building which he has continued ever since.
He has been a baseball coach and catching instructor, church trustee, and spends his spare time as cook, bottle washer, and sports taxi driver.
Michael earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University, an MS in Manufacturing Management from Rensselaer Institute of Technology, and his MBA from the University of Michigan.
