Michael W. Ferro Jr. (born 1966) is an American businessman and tech entrepreneur, founder of Click Commerce and Higi, as well as several other companies including Merrick Ventures, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
[7] He devised a plan for the company to place its inventory and price sheets on the Internet so customers could process their own orders, a revolutionary concept for the manufacturing industry at the time.
[10] Ferro's success in his early career made him one of the youngest people named to the Forbes "Tech's 100 Highest Rollers" list.
[3][14] In 2007, Ferro founded Merrick Ventures LLC, a private equity firm that connects investors with tech companies.
[15] Through Merrick Ventures, Ferro acquired a stake in Merge Healthcare, a Milwaukee-based medical data company that he relocated to Chicago.
The company produces biometric screening stations installed in public places that can measure a person's weight, body mass index, pulse and blood pressure, which users can track using an app.
Minshew, the founder of career website The Muse, accused Ferro making sexual advances toward her at a corporate apartment in Chicago in 2013.
[23] Kappler, while working for the firm Ingersoll Rand, claims to have been groped by Ferro in a Las Vegas hotel suite in early 2016.
[28] In 2006, Ferro was the Chairman of the Sports Advisory Council, a board of corporate citizens named by Mayor Daley to lead the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.