C. Michael Armstrong

About

Mike Armstrong earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and economics from Miami University in 1961 and completed the advanced management curriculum at Dartmouth Institute in 1976.

He is the retired Chairman and Director Emeritus of Comcast Corporation and the former Chairman and CEO of AT&T and Hughes Electronics. He spent more than three decades with IBM, beginning as a systems engineer and rising through the ranks to become Chairman of the Board of the IBM World Trade Corporation.

An active supporter of higher education and community activities, Armstrong is Vice Chairman, Johns Hopkins University, and Chair of the Corporate/Foundation Campaign at Miami University. He is co-founder and past President of ABC (A Better Chance) in Darien, Conn.

Armstrong has chaired the President's Export Council, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, and the FCC's Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. He is a former member of the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and The Defense Policy Advisory Committee. He has been a visiting professor at MIT's Sloan School.

Currently, Armstrong serves on the board of directors of IHS (Information Handling Services), Parsons Corporation, IDS, The Philharmonic Center for the Arts (Naples, Florida), the Forum Club of Southwest Florida, and the Telluride Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Conference Board, and is a senior advisor at SV Investment Partners and Tudor Venture Capital.

He is the recipient of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, Shenandoah University, and Miami University, as well as a Doctor of Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.