Mike Portegello
Advisory Council
A global business executive and financial expert with over 37 years of experience in accounting, finance, and capital market transactions, Mike provides strategic guidance to CrossCountry and the leadership team pertaining to market trends and opportunities, attracting and retaining talent, expanding its presence in the New York market, and growing their solutions and capabilities.
Having held a number of senior leadership roles at Ernst & Young (EY), Mike catalyzed the success of companies spanning emerging, IPO-bound, high growth start-ups to global, multi-billion-dollar organizations across various sectors. He also founded and led several of EY’s regional growth market businesses with strategy, operations, P&L, and talent management responsibility.
Mike currently serves as Advisory Board Chair for BUILD, a not-for-profit with the mission of igniting the power of youth in under-resourced communities to build career success, entrepreneurial mindsets, and opportunity. He graduated Suma Cum Laude with a BS in Accounting from St. John’s University and received his MBA in Management from the NYU Stern School of Business. He is a registered CPA in New York, New Jersey, and California, and completed the Executive Education Corporate Governance Program from Columbia Business School.