Michael Karlin is founder and President of the Mythic Imagination Institute and the Atlanta Mythological RoundTable. He is on the Board of the National Black Arts Festival, the Board of the Alliance for a New Humanity, the Board of Visitors of Emory University, the Board of Trustees of the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, and on the Advisory Board of Comedy for Peace, an effort to use humor to bridge the gap in the Middle East. Michael is currently participating in the Wexner Heritage Foundation's National Leadership Institute. He is a full time philanthropist and part-time investor working with early stage technology and financial services companies. Michael is on the Board of Directors of Outweb, Inc., a strategic consulting and technology development company and Magnolia Credit, a South Carolina finance company. Michael was co-founder of Security First Network Bank, the world's first Internet bank, and S1 Corporation, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONE), the world's leading provider of financial portal solutions. He was president of Security First Network Bank at its inception, and was responsible for setting up the Internet operations, defining the original product offering, and receiving all regulatory approvals.

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