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Michael Blank, Chief Operating Officer, Retool
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Michael Blank

Chief Operating Officer Retool

Michael Blank is Chief Operating Officer at Retool, which enterprises use to build and govern AI-generated software. Before joining Retool, Mr. Blank served as Chief Operating Officer at OpenSea and Polygon Labs. Previously, Mr. Blank held a number of senior leadership roles at Electronic Arts, a leading digital interactive entertainment company, where he led several of EA’s prominent game franchises, built the company’s first direct-to-consumer digital game platform into a $1B+ interactive gaming business and later led the company’s global Player Network, connecting and engaging EA’s more than 300 million users.  Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Mr. Blank was a lawyer at Fasken Martineau, one of Canada’s largest national full-service business law firms, and in-house counsel for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Blank is a graduate of University of British Columbia, where he received a Bachelor of Laws and McGill University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

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