Michael has 24 years of combined professional experience in accounting, finance, and entrepreneurship.
- Founder & President – Michael R. Burns, Inc. (current).
- School Board President – Private Elementary School (current).
- Founder & President – a tax preparation firm (sold).
- CFO – two private scrap metal recycling companies.
- VP of Finance – private industrial and automotive lubricant, blending, packaging, and distribution company (sold to a private national company).
- Regional Controller & Senior Accountant – one of the nation’s largest private towing, municipal impound facility, and traffic incident management companies (private equity owned).
- General Manager, Senior Accountant, & Treasury Accountant – one of the nation’s largest parking facility management companies (converted to a public-traded company).
Some of Michael’s most notable professional accomplishments include the formation and sale of an income tax preparation business and saving another company more than $500,000 on a union benefits audit.
Michael earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Saint Xavier University.