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Michael J. Berthelot has served as a member
of more than 30 public and private boards in the U.S., Canada, England, Brazil,
Spain and Germany and has served as CEO of two publicly traded companies during
his career (Pro-Dex Inc. (NASDAQ:PDEX) and TransTechnology Corporation (then
NYSE:TT) as well as private companies in the software and manufacturing industries. He currently serves as a director of Fresh Del Monte Produce Company (NYSE:FDP), a
Coral Gables FL based Fortune 1000 consumer products company, where he serves on
the audit and chairs the compensation committee. Until its acquisition by Aspen
Technologies Inc. in October 2016, Mr. Berthelot served on the board of Mtelligence
Corporation, a privately held San Diego based software company where he also
served as Chief Financial Officer. Mr.
Berthelot chairs the education committee and serves on the board of the
Corporate Directors Forum, one of the nation’s leading director centric
education organizations, where he previously served as Chairman. Mr. Berthelot is
the CEO of Cito
Capital Corporation, which counsels privately held companies on strategic and
operational issues. Mr. Berthelot is also an adjunct professor at the Rady
School of Management at the University of California San Diego where he teaches
a graduate level course on the CEO, the board of directors, and corporate
governance.
His past affiliations include owning his
own certified public accounting firms in Ohio and Florida; partnership in
Barnes Wendling Cook & O'Conner, Inc., Certified Public Accountants and
Management Consultants in Cleveland, Ohio; principal shareholder and director
of EWI, Inc., a privately held automotive supplier; and a major shareholder and
director of Golf Card International, Inc., (OTC:GCIC), a golf membership
services and publishing organization.
Mr. Berthelot holds a Bachelor's of Science
in Accounting, cum laude, from the University of Akron, a Masters of Business
Administration from Cleveland State University, and is a certified public
accountant (Ohio). He served four years
in the U.S. Coast Guard, including a tour in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam
War, and was an agent with the Internal Revenue Service for three years
following a one-year college internship.
Mr. Berthelot writes and speaks on
corporate strategic and governance issues on a national basis.
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