Michael Cline is the Founder and Chairman of Accolade. He is the founding Partner of Accretive LLC. Cline co-founded Exult, Xchanging, Fandango, Accretive Health, Accolade, and others. He serves as Chairman of Everspring and as a director on the boards of Accolade, Arise and Accumen. Before founding Accretive, Michael spent 10 years as General Partner at General Atlantic Partners and was an associate at McKinsey & Company. He received a BS from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is a Director of Panthera where he chairs the Tigers Forever initiative. In addition he serves on the board of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as the Harvard Business School and Cornell School of Hotel Administration Deans Advisory Boards. He is married with six children.