About Chef Michael Jenkins

Michael was born in Philadelphia and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. He grew up eating and developing a love of American food, having family in places like New Orleans, Nashville, and New York. Prior to graduating from the Institute of Culinary Education, he began working at BUTTER Restaurant under the tutelage of Chef Alexandra Guarnaschelli. Michael competed on the hit TV Show Chopped (champion), Cutthroat Kitchen (champion), Beat Bobby Flay (finalist), and Iron Chef America (4-1 in five episodes). He is a 2x winner of The South Beach Food & Wine Festival’s Burger Bash competition. He is currently serving as the executive chef at Butter Restaurant, and consulting on various projects.

Featuring

Mike Elnick

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Tegus

After beginning his career as an early employee at AlphaSights, Michael co-founded Tegus with his twin-brother Thomas in 2016. Today he serves as co-CEO, overseeing expansion strategy, go-to-market, commercialization, and compliance.

Tim Bliss

Partner at Partners Fund Capital

Tim Bliss serves as a member of the Tegus Board of Directors. He is a partner of Partners Fund Capital, and prior to that, served as a partner of Investment Group of Santa Barbara for over 40 years. Tim received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Host, Invest Like The Best podcast

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of Positive Sum (psum.vc), a venture capital and private equity investment firm, and the founder and chairman of Colossus (joincolossus.com), a media company which produces podcasts (including Invest Like the Best, one of the leading podcasts on business and investing) that have reached more than 40M people. Prior to Positive Sum and Colossus, Patrick built O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM.com), which manages $7.5 billion for clients. OSAM was acquired by Franklin Templeton in 2021.