Michael is Co-Founder of and Senior Advisor to Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners (formerly Comvest Credit Partners), a private credit asset management platform focused on the North American middle market.
Until November 2025, Michael served as the Founder and Executive Chairman of Comvest Partners (Comvest), a leading middle-market investment firm specializing in private equity and credit strategies. Over a span of 25 years, he led the firm’s growth from its inception in 2000 into a platform with nearly $17 billion of assets under management, providing financing solutions across the capital structure.
On November 3, 2025, Manulife Investment Management, the asset management arm of Manulife Financial Corporation, acquired a 75% stake in Comvest Credit Partners. As part of this transaction, Comvest Private Equity, Comvest’s private equity investment platform, became an independent entity. Michael remains involved in Comvest Private Equity as Executive Chairman.
Prior to founding Comvest, Michael co-founded its predecessor company, Commonwealth Associates, a merchant and investment bank that provided over $1 billion of equity to finance the operations, acquisitions and/or restructuring of more than 100 technology, healthcare, and services-related lower-middle-market businesses.
Outside of Comvest, Michael is an active philanthropist. He is Co-Trustee of The Michael and Annie Falk Foundation, which is dedicated to high-impact community service and philanthropic work in early childhood education, law enforcement and environmental preservation. Michael’s educational causes also include institutions of higher learning; he has supported scholarships at Queens College and the establishment of a research laboratory in environmental exposomics at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.
Michael received a B.A. in Economics from Queens College and executive education through programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.
