Mike Teate
Chair
Mike’s engineering and professional services career centers on enhancing, restoring, and preserving our natural and built environments. Having held operations, business development, and executive leadership roles with global, industry-leading program management and consulting firms, he has extensive expertise in corporate governance, risk management, operational planning, organizational design and development, and talent management.
Career highlights include serving as ICF International’s Senior Vice President championing strategic growth and institutional strengthening of ICF’s Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure Group, with 2,000 multi-disciplinary staff delivering high-impact science, technology, policy, planning, advisory, and implementation services to federal, state, local, and commercial clients. Earlier with the Parsons Corporation Infrastructure & Technology Group, Mike led sector operations and later business development for the Energy, Systems, & Security Division delivering large-scale, world-wide Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and Department of Energy programs. Before that, Mike served as Parsons’ Environmental & Resource Management sector manager overseeing key programs such as engineering and environmental services for the International Boundary and Water Commission and the Navy’s Tactical Training Theater Assessment and Planning program supporting compliance and sustainability of land- and sea-based training ranges and operating areas in the Atlantic and Pacific.
Mike’s leadership foundation was built as a U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Officer following his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He holds an M.S.M.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He also is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program.