Mike is a founding partner at ColdSpark, providing strategic and communications counsel to elected officials, candidates for public office, trade associations, advocacy groups, non-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
Politics PA twice rated Mike as a “top operative.” Mike has produced creative advertising that has won numerous Pollie and Reed Awards.
Mike is committed to the Pittsburgh community, serving as a board member for the AMD3 Foundation, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Museum of Art, Jack Heinz Society, Central Catholic High School, the Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, and the major gifts committee of The Pittsburgh Promise.
A graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, Mike resides in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh with his wife, Angela, and their daughters, Eleanor and Margret.