Meet the Founder

My story

Mike is founder and CEO of MTM Global LLC, which he established to leverage private equity portfolio experience in lower middle market companies. MTM is derived from Mike & Monica Topa (though Monica may put it in a different order). Monica leads a separate subsidiary, MTM Design Group, an interior design company.

Accounting was Mike’s career starting point because it provided the tools to understand business. He later added a degree in Computer Systems Analysis to support initiatives at a major oil company, where he led the introduction of new hardware and software to improve accounting processes.

Following early accounting career roles in two public companies, Mike’s career path migrated to private equity. As he would say it was largely due to poor interviewing skills.

In his first portfolio company, he was eventually promoted to president and became a partner in the investment. This company was sold and then later merged into another PE sponsored company, where Mike remained an investor. The merged company was later sold to a subsidiary of United Technologies.

Subsequently, Mike was employed with three other PE sponsored companies and one public company as CFO.

MTM Global was launched based on requests from private business owners seeking help to manage and grow their companies. Lower middle market companies generally have limited skills sets within their organization. MTM Global, leveraging experience with five different private equity sponsored companies, offers tools, business practices and experienced resources typically not available in smaller organizations.

Mike has led or advised businesses ranging in revenues from $5M to $250M.

Aviation (flight services & MRO)
Manufacturing (multiple sites)
Remanufacturing (automotive)
S. government (DOD) and international military (FMS)
Consumer retail and distribution (online direct to consumer)
Construction (electrical & mechanical contractors)
Transportation (trucking & airfreight)
Packaging (bottle filling & capping)
Electro-mechanical industrial equipment (repair and maintenance)
Wire harness manufacturing (specialty vehicles, lawn care equipment, automotive)

Mike's international experience includes president of a company with locations in the UK, Canada, Singapore, and Brazil. This included licensing agreements with Italian, French, German and Russian aircraft manufacturers. The Singapore and Brazil locations were joint ventures.

Mike has served on three different Board of Directors until the successful sale of each company.