Vice President for Finance & Administration / CFO
Kathy Micheli
Kathy Micheli is Merit Network, Inc.’s Vice President for Finance & Administration / CFO. She directs the company’s finance, human resource, legal, insurance, contracting, and facility functions and plays a key role in shaping its strategic direction.
Kathy joined Merit in 2010 as its senior accountant and immediately helped guide the administrative and operational components of both rounds of the ARRA NTIA/BTOP-funded REACH-3MC project. Promoted to Controller and Director of Financial Services, Kathy co-directed the implementation of Merit’s first ERP and forecasting software. These new systems were instrumental in knocking down departmental silos by broadening access to financial and inventory information to facilitate more transparent and strategic decision-making. She leads the annual financial audit, works with management to secure the integrity of human resource and financial information, and serves on the Merit Board of Directors Finance Committee.
Kathy earned her Certified Public Accountant license in 2008. Since then, she has worked with various for-profit and nonprofit companies to implement and improve internal controls to safeguard assets and strengthen the reliability of financial information. Kathy earned her BS in Accounting from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and spends her free time with her husband and rescue dog from the Bahamas.