Mike is the head of a multigenerational family office where he manages investing activities, oversees controlling interest in a number of operating companies and is on the board of the family’s main business, GOJO, the global leader in skin health and hygiene solutions for away-from-home markets and the inventor of PURELL® Instant Hand Sanitizer.Prior to this role, Mike was a Principal and Partner at Linsalata Capital Partners, a middle market private equity fund where he was responsible for sourcing, transacting and overseeing investments. During his over seven years at Linsalata, he worked closely with portfolio companies on driving organic growth, integrating add on acquisitions and improving operating performance. Mike was involved at the financial, operating and board levels on a broad array of manufacturing, distribution and consumer products companies. Before Linsalata, Mike was an investment banker with a specialty in mergers and acquisitions at KeyBanc Capital Markets (formerly McDonald & Company), where he executed over 40 merger and acquisition transactions over ten years. Mike has deep board level experience ranging across several large multigenerational businesses, private equity backed portfolio companies, an advisory board of a growth oriented private equity firm, and in support of non profit organizations and social causes. Mike received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his BS in Finance from Miami University.
Listed skills include Private Equity, Mergers And Acquisitions, Due Diligence, Corporate Development, and 24 others.