Security Leadership, Proven Where the Stakes Are Highest

Michael has spent more than 30 years in technology and over two decades leading enterprise cybersecurity in healthcare and financial services, two of the most targeted and most regulated industries there are. He founded EnGrossed Advisory to put that leadership within reach of organizations that need it but can’t yet justify a full-time CISO.

At Cleveland Clinic, Michael built and led the Cyber Defense Fusion Center, serving as Cybersecurity Intelligence Leader from 2018 to 2025. He unified threat intelligence, security monitoring, incident response, and forensics into a single team, and directed a $10M+ annual security budget protecting one of the world’s most recognized health systems. His incident response leadership cut the organization’s mean time to respond (MTTR) by 40%.

Before that, Michael spent more than a decade at PNC Bank (formerly National City Bank) in business resilience and network engineering. He designed high-availability architectures for critical systems, including ATM networks, and delivered infrastructure improvements that produced $500,000 in annual recurring savings.

Today, as a Fractional CISO, Michael brings that leadership to organizations that need it: security strategy, risk reporting leadership can act on, incident response readiness, compliance, and governance for how the business uses AI. He is also developing agentic AI workflows for threat triage and incident enrichment that can help security teams cut the time it takes to respond to incidents. He writes and speaks on AI security, quantum readiness, NIST CSF 2.0, and building a security culture.