Michael Tenenbaum

Michael’s family settled in Thousand Oaks in 1976 and continues to live in the community to this day. Michael’s father was a survivor of the Holocaust who was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp by the 42nd Rainbow Division of the U.S. Army. Michael attended public elementary, junior high, and high school in Thousand Oaks, where he graduated first in his class as Valedictorian. Michael went on to study Economics at UCLA, where he earned a degree in just three years — first in his class again — with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Michael then went on to graduate, with honors, from Harvard Law School. Michael works as a businessman and lawyer in southern California and as a visiting professor of American and international business law in Europe. Having started his career advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Michael today works with promising entrepreneurs to help build their businesses. As a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and in his own practice, Michael has worked on an array of complex cases involving matters of federal law, including antitrust, employment, intellectual property, and public securities matters. Michael has taught courses on the American legal system at the University of Paris and recently taught international business law at INSEAD, the leading business school for MBAs in Europe. Michael served as the youngest President of the Board of Governors of the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Civic Arts Plaza Foundation. Michael is an appointed member of the Republican State Central Committee and attends the California Republican Party conventions. Michael is a member of the Leadership Council of the Republican Jewish Coalition and is an alternate member of the Ventura County Republican Central Committee.