Mike is the Assistant Director of Babson College’s Institute for Family Enterprising. The Program focuses on the strategic ownership and management practices of large family groups with an emphasis on the application of entrepreneurial strategy to the family as an “economic unit.”  Mike teaches MBA and undergraduate classes, as well as external education programs - conducting seminars for family firms, executive education programs, and personalized educational workshops for family groups around the world.  In addition, he coordinates the Institute’s outreach programs.  His research efforts have focused on the impact of nepotism, the role family values in creating economic wealth, and the requirements for successful joint ventures between family firms and multinationals.

Mike is also the Managing Director and a founding principal of The TELOS Group, a global consulting firm dedicated to improving the wealth creation capabilities of family businesses.  The firm focuses on providing family ownership groups the strategies and structures necessary to create transgenerational social and economic wealth.  In doing so, it helps family groups achieve the critical goals of family unity and asset growth via entrepreneurship.

Prior to his work at Babson, Mike managed all aspects of an academic center at the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.  His responsibilities included developing content for, and teaching, Wharton seminars on the strategies and practices of family firms – particularly as they related to the application of entrepreneurial strategy to family-influenced wealth creation.

Prior to starting the TELOS Group, Mike was a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center where he provided consulting advice on management, marketing, finance, and operations issues to entrepreneurial businesses in  Philadelphia and internationally.  Prior to his experience at Wharton, Mike worked in finance as both a corporate lender and a micro-enterprise lender.  As the Project Manager for a Small Enterprise Development Project, Mike was responsible for the start-up and management of all aspects of a micro-enterprise lending project based in an impoverished rural area on the Dominican-Haitian border.   As a corporate lending officer for National Westminster Bank in New York, Mike was responsible for marketing the bank’s products and services, analyzing credit, and negotiating loans.  

Mike holds a BA in economics from Cornell University, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Mike has lived and worked in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Finland, and speaks Spanish.  He lives in Philadelphia, with his wife, Maria, and their two children.