Michael P Hart

Senior Manager, Schneider Downs Business Restructuring

[email protected] | (412) 697-5368

Mike is a Senior Manager with Schneider Downs Business Restructuring, joining Schneider Downs in 2020. He is a business executive with 20 years of experience across multiple industries in Financial, Strategic and Operational roles for Big 4, Public, Private and Private Equity organizations. Mike has led business functions and cross-functional teams in developing new strategies and internal processes to improve business performance by +$30M in profit through revenue growth, lowering costs and strengthening cashflow.

Mike’s past roles include being a CFO for a middle market-manufacturing firm, a Management Consultant for a global consulting firm as well as building and leading FP&A and Commercial Operations functions. Skilled at assessing risks and opportunities while providing financial visibility and strategic options, Mike develops true relationships with Executive Management, peers and staff to deliver successful engagements.

Mike’s experience and expertise includes Management Consulting, Business Transformation, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Change Management, Six-Sigma, Analytics, Operations Improvement, Strategic Planning and Strategic Pricing.

Mike has contributed to several pricing articles and books, given talks at national conferences on Data Driven Business Transformation as well as holds a patent.

Memberships and Associations

  • Board of Trustees – National Aviary

Education

About Schneider Downs Business Restructuring

The Schneider Downs Business Restructuring team provides clients with award-winning consulting services in the areas of management consulting, corporate restructuring and debt financing. Additionally, our experience includes having acted in the capacity of Court-appointed Receiver, Examiner and Trustee. To learn more about our Business Restructuring services, please visit www.schneiderdowns.com/business-restructuring.

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Big Problem: Cybersecurity Defenses Compromised By Employees’ Passwords


Big Thinking: Significant Updates To The Cybersecurity Environment.

Shareholder ERIC WRIGHT has been involved with Information Technology with Schneider Downs since 1983 and oversees the firm’s thriving Technology Consulting and IT Audit & Compliance practices. Through this role, Eric brings extensive experience in assessing IT infrastructure and identifying cybersecurity risk and exposure.
One of our clients felt fairly good about their existing cybersecurity defenses. But they were still afraid of the unknown and newer cyber attack techniques. Through our regular audit procedures, we inquired about their current cyber controls and their confidence in withstanding an attack. We then performed a network penetration test which simulates an external adversary hacking their network. This procedure identified the client's unknown weaknesses in their defenses through a live test. “Within 48 hours, we were able to guess the passwords of close to 10% of their employees, effectively giving us VPN access to their corporate network and certain employee utilities, like email.” Eric said. "We also found that their corporate intranet site was visible over the internet and susceptible to login via the bad passwords. After identifying these issues, we worked with the client to make significant changes to their environment to make it harder for an attacker to break in." Schneider Downs provides Big Thinking and Personal Focus in delivering a variety of services for large and small businesses, both publicly and privately held, as well as nonprofit organizations, government entities and more. Through our commitment to thought leadership and knowledge management, we deliver the solutions our clients need with a personal commitment to service.

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