Biography

Michael Blitzer has been Chairman of the Board of USA Rare Earth since its 2025 public listing on Nasdaq, for which he was the financial sponsor as Chairman and CEO of Inflection Point Acquisition, II. Mr. Blitzer is also a director of Intuitive Machines Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNAR), a leading lunar exploration company and the first private enterprise to successfully land on the moon, and where he chairs the compensation committee and is a member of the audit committee. He is also lead independent director of Merlin Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRLN), a leading AI-enabled autonomous flight company, where he is also chair of the nominating & governance committee. He is also currently the Chairman and CEO of Inflection Point III and Inflection Point V which have announced transactions with Air Water and GoWell, respectively, in the water and energy fields.  

Mr. Blitzer is the Chairman and CEO of Inflection Point Asset Management, the financial sponsor of strategically important assets in the critical infrastructure and national security industries, since 2024. He was the founder and CEO of Kingston Capital Management, which he founded in 2004 and grew to a multi-billion asset manager with some of the world's largest endowments and foundations until 2021.

Mr. Blitzer began his Wall Street career at J.P. Morgan Securities in 1999 advising companies globally in private debt and capital raises followed by work at the investment fund Gotham Asset Management, which was founded by the author and investor Joel Greenblatt. Mr. Blitzer taught courses in investing at Columbia Business School for five years in the 2010s.  He holds an M.B.A from Columbia Business School and a B.S. from Cornell University.  

Mr. Blitzer serves as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.