Mike Rehberg

Mr. Mike Rehberg is Senior Investment Manager at Dow Chemical Corporate Venture Capital.
He joined the firm in 2000.
He is currently managing Dow’s venture capital investments in electronic materials, and IT related companies, and also advising Dow’s pension plan in similar private equity investments.
Mr. Rehberg joined Dow in 1980 in the Process Control Engineering Department.
In 1985 he was a project leader in the design and building of chemical facilities in Dow’s California operation.
Moving in 1988 to the Computing Department, he implemented Dow’s first network monitoring system to monitor and manage Dow’s California IBM network.
In 1990, he relocated to Midland Michigan to architect a high availability computer network in support of Dow’s initial implementation of SAP R2 in North America.
He lead the technical effort to implement a global TCP/IP network for Dow.
Then moving to Dow’s Global IT Architect team he has lead Dow’s technical IT activities in the telecommunications space, including in 1999 the Technical Architecture effort for DowNET.
DowNET is Dow's Voice over IP (VoIP) breakthrough program with Cisco Systems that replaced every Dow employee's phone with a VoIP phone.
In 2000, he was asked to take a board observer position on the board of one of Dow’s IT Telecommunications portfolio companies.
This lead to a full-time roll in the Corporate Venture Capital group managing all of the IT direct investments, and working with Dow’s IT focused venture capital funds.
Mr. Rehberg holds a B.Sc.
in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University in 1980.