About Mike — Flying Geese

The career arc

25+ years in the formation — building, scaling, and selling.

1999 — Today

25+ years as an operator.

Mike started as a developer in a late-90s startup before moving into executive roles — building and scaling technology and professional services firms from the inside. He's been responsible for strategy, operations, acquisitions, and the cultures that make both work. That operator experience continues to shape how he advises founders today.

2013 — 2025

Search Discovery → Further.

37% CAGR over 10 years. 7× on the Inc. 5000 and 5× on the Inc. Best Places to Work — during the same years — before its strategic sale to Momentum in 2021. After the sale, Mike continued leading the acquired business unit: repositioning, additional acquisitions, and full business transformation.

Ongoing

Five acquisitions, three exits.

Across his career, Mike has led five acquisitions and been involved in three successful exits, with 85% client retention and 90% team retention post-acquisition. The operating experience that informs Flying Geese Partners is not theoretical — it's the work.

7×

Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company

5×

Inc. Best Places to Work

Acquisitions led

Exits

Why Flying Geese

Coming alongside, not advising from a distance.

Flying Geese exists because most business advice is about getting bigger, not getting better. The businesses that actually endure — that give their people a place to do their best work, that grow through difficulty, that reach the outcomes their founders imagined — are the ones that got stronger first.

Most founders Mike works with are doing the right things — but struggling with sequence, priority, and the systems the next stage will demand. Once a company hits product–market fit, there's a window to build the scaffolding that enables durable growth, and to solve the predictable scaling problems before they show up. Flying Geese exists to be the partner in that work: pushing, challenging, building the system in the room.

Outside Flying Geese

The through-line is coming alongside people.

Mike is actively involved in serving at his church, sitting on multiple nonprofit boards, and mentoring others. The boards he serves on focus on work he cares deeply about — youth and community programs that meet people in schools, hospitals, and hard places, as well as organizations that equip men to be present husbands, fathers, and leaders. The through-line across all of it is coming alongside people.