Meet Our Speaker
Michael Marquardt, CEO of Global Kompass Strategies, Inc., is an international business leader who has run companies in the technology and healthcare sectors and served as president of the global risk management company founded by former FBI Director Louis Freeh. He is a corporate director who has chaired and served on boards of corporations based in Paris, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. He was also a Blockchain Advisor to the State of Delaware and serves as a Global Advisor to the Delaware Prosperity Partnership.
Michael is the Vice Chair of the American Cancer Society Board of Directors and is co-chairing the national search for the next CEO of the Society. Michael was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1991 a year and a half after witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall to attend college and graduate school, and became a U.S. citizen in 2002.