Board Recruitment, Governance Training, & Leadership Coaching

Michael Montelongo

Practioner and Faculty Member

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About Michael Montelongo PRACTITIONER & FACULTY MEMBER

The Honorable Michael Montelongo, a career soldier, former presidential appointee and Senate-confirmed official, and corporate executive, is president and chief executive officer of GRC Advisory Services, LLC, a private firm specializing in board governance matters and most recently was chief administrative officer and senior vice president for Sodexo, Inc (Euronext: SW). A frequent board governance speaker and panelist, an audit committee financial expert, and NACD Board Leadership Fellow and faculty member, Michael serves on the boards of Civeo Corporation (NYSE: CVEO), Conduent Inc (NASDAQ: CNDT), and Leadership Roundtable. A former Bush White House appointee who served as the 19th assistant secretary for financial management and chief financial officer of the US Air Force and the first Latino in that role, Michael is a public policy expert and lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Experience

 Previously, Michael was an executive with a global management consulting firm, a regional telecommunications company, and completed a career in the US Army, a Congressional Fellowship in the US Senate, and service as an assistant professor teaching economics and political science at West Point. Besides corporate and military awards and the highest decorations for Exceptional Civilian Service in the Air Force and the NASA, he is featured in NACD Directorship magazine’s Board Fellow Spotlight, Private Company Director magazine’s Directors to Watch, and several nationally-recognized Latino publications including being twice-listed in Hispanic Business magazine’s 100 Most Influential Hispanics. Michael earned his bachelor’s degree in science from West Point and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Faculty Topics

Mike focuses on public, private, and family boards. He has led strategy; talent/leadership/culture; leader development and inclusion and diversity; dynamic enterprise risk management and compliance including crisis/cyber/ESG/regulatory/geopolitics/public policy matters; and audit committee functions

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