Founder
Founder & Principal, Aequora
Mike founded Aequora to work where cyber security, emerging technology, and business transformation meet. It's familiar ground. He has worked in AI since 1996 and was publishing in the field as a student: for Mike, this is a career-long focus, not a passing trend.
Most recently as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at FS-ISAC, the financial sector's primary threat-intelligence organization, he shaped how 5,000+ financial institutions worldwide approach AI risk and post-quantum cryptography, all while owning parts of the $30M P&L and part of the org growing revenue 60%+. He is equally credible in a policy forum and an engineering standup: a daily AI practitioner who has also advised at the G7, the Bank for International Settlements, Europol, and FBI.
One career, three currents
Led AI risk governance and emerging-technology strategy for the global financial sector's primary threat-intelligence body (FS-ISAC, 5,000+ member institutions). Advisory roles with the FBI – Los Angeles and Europol's Quantum Safe Financial Forum.
Lead author of sector-defining guidance on AI risk, cryptographic agility, deepfakes, and cloud security. In AI since 1996, from early published research and an Intel ISEF Grand Award (1998) to agentic LLM workflows today.
Led a $370M enterprise transformation under federal oversight and moved 4,000+ professionals to new ways of working, pairing board-level strategy with hands-on engineering depth.
Track record
A recognized voice
Education
MBA, New York University, Stern School of Business
BSE, Computer Engineering, Tulane University, Cum Laude
Off the clock
Mike races sailboats as a tactician and helmsman. That's not incidental: it's where the firm gets its name. Aequora is Latin for calm, level seas, the conditions you reach by reading the currents early and steering with intent.
Bring us the hard problem at the confluence, and we'll help you navigate it.
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