Summary: Most of our listeners know Michael as the former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Institutions who shepherded the Obama administration's efforts on the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Fewer people may know that he also led the initial organizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, prior to the President's appointment of now-Senator Elizabeth Warren to take on that task - that was when I got to know him. He is now back at the University of Michigan (my own alma mater) as a law professor, and continues to be very active across a wide spectrum of consumer finance and financial regulation activities, and also on lending to small businesses.
