Mike Hayes
Former Navy SEAL commander and executive
Mike Hayes is a former commander of SEAL Team TWO who went on to senior business roles. He is the author of Mission Driven.
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Born in the United States
About Mike Hayes
Mike Hayes spent twenty years as a Navy SEAL and commanded SEAL Team TWO, leading a Special Operations task force of two thousand people in southeastern Afghanistan. He was also a White House Fellow, and he worked for two years at the National Security Council, where he directed defense policy and strategy. In that work he dealt directly with Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In business, he has held senior roles at VMware, Cognizant Technologies and Bridgewater Associates, and he has also worked as a Managing Director at Insight Partners. He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's degree from Holy Cross College. His book in our catalog is Mission Driven.