Mike is currently President and CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), representing individuals and organizations that raise more than $100 billion in charitable contributions every year around the world for countless causes. Prior to AFP, Mike served as Executive Director of the Chief Executives Organization, an international organization with a focus on education. Mike also served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. German Marshall Fund, a non-partisan international think tank and grant-making organization. He was also Chief Financial Officer at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a non-partisan international policy research think tank organization.

For nine years, Mike sat on the board of the Romanian American Fund and the Romanian American Enterprise Fund, two organizations created by a 1995 act of the U.S. Congress.

Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mike is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond and a Master's in Business Administration from Northeastern University