Mike Grandis currently serves as the Chief Legal & Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary of Tantalus and is responsible for all legal matters across the company and its affiliates as well as providing leadership for a number of administrative operations, including compliance, human resources, risk and ESG. He oversees contracting, corporate governance, public company compliance, intellectual property, employment and other transactional matters. Prior to joining Tantalus in 2018 as General Counsel, Mike was a corporate partner in the New York office of Loeb & Loeb LLP, an international law firm, where he also acted as outside general counsel to Tantalus for several years. Mike has nearly two decades of experience practicing in New York law firms representing clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and other transactional engagements. Additionally, Mike serves as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of a charter school network in New York City and on the Board of Directors of a large youth sports organization. He also lectures on venture finance and other entrepreneurial topics at Cornell Tech, a joint academic venture between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in New York. Mike received his B.S. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law where he was a member of the Columbia Business Law Review.
