Michael Kendall has an extensive business background leading companies engaged in diverse marketplaces such as advertising, printing, graphic arts, executive recruiting, oil, retail, in-home services, technology, laboratory services, and healthcare. He managed the overall business aspects of one of the first commercial laboratories focused on rare metabolic and mitochondrial disorders, co-founder/Treasurer for a past mitochondrial foundation, and co-founded VMP Genetics. He developed the model for delivering telemedicine in rare genetics before there was a word for telemedicine, had the vision for expanding VMP Genetics expertise into 3 distinct divisions (Direct Patient Care, Education, Physician to Physician Support), and was an early adopter of leveraging social media in medicine.