He joined Scientific Atlanta following 22 years at Gould Electronics, Inc., a subsidiary of Japan Energy Corporation, where he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. After Scientific Atlanta was acquired by Cisco, he became Vice President, Deputy General Counsel.He has extensive experience managing a multi-national corporate law department. His areas of expertise include domestic and international acquisitions and divestitures, commercial and government contracts, criminal and civil litigation, compliance and environmental proceedings. In addition, his experience at Gould included, restructuring and managing multiple discontinued businesses, reducing high exposure legacy liabilities and successfully recovering over $100M in insurance recoveries.His legal career includes Judge Advocate service in the U.S. Marine Corps where he served as a certified military judge and trial counsel at military courts-martial and administrative proceedings. He is a retired Colonel. Prior to joining Gould, he was a commercial litigator in Washington, D.C. with a private law firm.Michael is a current member of the Cisco Foundation. He also served as past president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Georgia chapter and is on the board of the Atlanta Alzheimer’s Association. He attended Boston College Law School and Regis College in Denver, Colorado.