Michael Montelongo
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing
Sodexho, Inc.

The Honorable Michael Montelongo is Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing for Sodexho, Inc. and a member of Sodexho's executive committee where he is based in Gaithersburg , Maryland.

Mr. Montelongo has extensive senior management experience in the national security community, including service in the Senate and the Pentagon, and the telecommunications and consulting industries.  Throughout his career he has been involved in strategy and policymaking for major, multinational commercial and public sector enterprises and is recognized for leading change in large organizations.

At Sodexho Inc., a $6 billion, 110,000-person enterprise, Mr. Montelongo is the chief strategist leading the company's North American strategic planning and development including its mid-term planning process.  This process includes market research, client segmentation and sub-segmentation activities, and strategy development.

Previously, Mr. Montelongo was appointed by President Bush as assistant secretary of the Air Force where he served as its chief financial officer responsible for a budget of over $120B and financing two major combat operations; he concluded his tenure at the Pentagon as acting secretary of the Air Force.

Before joining the Bush administration, he was a sales executive and consultant with Cap Gemini Ernst and Young and earlier served as director for sales and service support with BellSouth Telecommunications.  Additionally, Mr. Montelongo completed a career in the U.S. Army serving as a congressional fellow in the U.S. Senate, Special Assistant and Speechwriter to the Army Chief of Staff, Special Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Southern Command, and as assistant professor teaching economics and political science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Active in several civic pursuits, he served a term as National President for the American Society of Military Comptrollers and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Mr. Montelongo also serves on the board of directors for Denny's Corporation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Council.

Mr. Montelongo earned his bachelor's degree in science from the U.S. Military Academy and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.  He is listed in Hispanic Business Magazine's 100 Most Influential Hispanics and in Hispanic Engineer Magazine's 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business.