Before retiring from Bloomberg Consulting in 2019, Mike spent five years at Deutsche Bank and fifteen years at Merrill Lynch, where he headed up research efforts in currency and international fixed income research. His research was ranked first in the world according to Institutional Investor magazine, Euromoney Magazine, and Global Investor Magazine. He was also ranked first in the United Kingdom-based Extel Survey, FX Week magazine and FXMM magazine. The Basking Ridge, New Jersey resident has two daughters, both of whom are Penn State alumnae. Mike has established two undergraduate scholarships and an endowment supporting graduate students in the Department of Economics.