Mike Moyer

Mike is a career entrepreneur and investor who has started and run companies in a variety of industries ranging from clothing manufacturing to marketing technology. Today he runs Slicing Pie, a SaaS company that helps startup founders create perfectly fair equity splits, and MosquitOasis that makes pop-up mosquito net tents for kids.

He teaches entrepreneurship at Northwestern University and has held other faculty appointments at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and MIT. He has written eight books with a focus on business and entrepreneurship including Pitch Ninja, The Slicing Pie Handbook, and Will Work for Pie.

He has an MS in integrated marketing from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He

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