Mike was born in West Berlin, Germany. His father was in the US Army, so he spent the first 2 years of his life there before relocating.
In the 1970s he was raised mostly in Virginia, Vienna and Warrenton; and moved his senior year of high school, which he graduated from in Elizabeth City, NC
From 1983 – 1987 he went to the University of Virginia, and earned a BA in International Relations and received a Navy ROTC scholarship
In 1988 He married Jennifer Rogers (Burke)
From 1987 – 1992 he was in the US Navy; USS KIDD (DDG-993) from 1987-1990, and shore duty from 1990 - 1992
From 1992 – 1994, he went back to school to get an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia.
From the late 1990s to 2005 – he worked in a Variety Marketing and sales jobs at AT&T and telecom and internet start-ups
1996 – 2001 – Lived in San Francisco, CA – fun!
His son Sam was born in 1999. And in 2000, his son Alex was born
He’s been back in Virginia since 2002
Professionally, Mike has been the Agency Owner and President of Fort Lauderdale Insurance Services, Inc since 2005.
In July 2005 he bought the Laurie Jones agency
In Dec 2007 he bought the Mike & Linda Oliver agencies
From 2008 – 2016 he went through a period of Failure and sadness
But since 2016, he has been “Winning” like Charlie Sheen without the hookers and blow
