Michael Kromm

Important correction to the stub data: The provided stub characterizes Michael Kromm as an "Angel Investor" focused on "Seed Round" deals. I found no evidence to support that. Every verifiable source ties him to Focused Investors LLC, which is a Los Angeles–based, SEC-registered investment adviser running a single concentrated, fully invested portfolio of high-quality, U.S. large-cap public equities. The firm managed roughly $2.76B–$3.3B in assets (recent regulatory AUM cited at ~$3.29B as of mid-2026) and operates one private fund, Focused Investors Fund LP. This is a value-oriented public-markets manager, not a venture or angel operation — so a "seed-stage angel" framing does not fit the firm or, by extension, his role there.

Focused Investors was co-founded in 2006 by Bruce G. Veaco (Managing Member; ~20 years at Pacific Financial Research managing the Clipper and Clipper Focus funds; UCLA and Harvard Business School) and includes portfolio manager Nugroho "Dédé" Soeharto. The firm's investment philosophy is long-term capital appreciation through a small number of concentrated positions in businesses selling below their intrinsic value.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Michael "Mike" Kromm holds the title of Chief Operating Officer / Chief Compliance Officer at Focused Investors LLC, based in the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. This is an operations and regulatory-compliance role — running fund operations, trading/settlement oversight, and adviser compliance — rather than an investment-decision or deal-sourcing role. Detailed biographical information (prior employers, tenure, education) is not publicly available: LinkedIn is auth-walled and could not be read directly, and no bio for him appears on the firm's own materials.

One note of ambiguity worth flagging for accuracy: the firm's current public team page and recent regulatory-style filings list Beverly C. Tecson as Chief Operating Officer / Chief Compliance Officer (with Kenneth M. Rojas as Operations Manager), and do not currently list Kromm. His LinkedIn title of COO/CCO may therefore reflect a prior period, a shared/overlapping title, or an internal role not surfaced on the public site. His exact current status at the firm could not be definitively confirmed from public sources.

*(These are the firm's stated public-equity investment principles — the closest verifiable "thesis." They are not personal angel-investing criteria, of which none were found.)*

• Invests in publicly traded, large-market-cap, U.S.-based companies — not private startups.
• Runs a concentrated, fully invested portfolio (a small number of high-conviction positions).
• Buys high-quality businesses trading at discounts to intrinsic value, aiming for long-term capital appreciation.
• Long-term holding orientation, consistent with a Graham/Buffett-style value discipline (lineage traces to the Clipper Fund heritage of its founders).
• No stated seed/angel thesis, sector startup focus, or venture check-size range was found for Michael Kromm personally.