Mike has more than 25 years of experience providing financial advisory and private investment banking services to clients, the last 15 years focused exclusively on the energy and infrastructure industry. This includes development support, deal structuring, tax credit monetization, grant procurement, funding placement of both equity and debt and general corporate finance consulting.

Mike recently founded Virentis Advisors, LLC (November 2022). Virentis is focused on advising clients in the biogas and other waste to value sectors. Prior to Virentis, Mike was with a national CPA firm for over 24 years. Mike was an original founder of that firm’s Energy and Infrastructure (EIG) practice in late 2007. During his tenure with that firm, the EIG team supported over 210 projects that are either built or under construction, ranging from $5 million to $400 million and totaling more than $4.1 billion of construction value. These projects include energy from waste, biomass, wind, solar, hydro and geothermal heating and cooling. Over $1 billion of construction value has been related to waste to value projects.

Mike holds a Master Master of Business Administration in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison