Mike Richardson

Mike Richardson is a Temecula-based chair, facilitator and advisor bringing local and global perspectives to his work with boards, executive teams and CEOs. For over 20 years, he has worked with governance, advisory, and peer-advisory boards in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Earlier in his career, Mike was a serial CEO of global technology businesses, then running the Aerospace division of a British public company—first from the UK (he is originally English) and then from Southern California, where he’s lived for 25 years and is now an American citizen.

Mike is a Partner with REF (formerly Renaissance Executive Forums) building communities of peer-advisory-boards in San Diego, Temecula/Murrieta and Los Angeles. He is Co-Chair for the Americas of the Advisory Board Centre; Co-Chair of the Corporate Directors Forum (CDF)’s Avenue to the Board Room mentor program for aspiring governance board members and is a Governance Board member of the CDF Institute. Mike recently became Chairman of the Board of Wilson Creek Winery.

He is passionate about coaching and facilitating boards, executive teams and CEOs to sharpen strategic focus, elevate collective intelligence, and future-proof their organizations with the agility required in times of accelerating disruptive change.