With ORGANO since 2021, Mike is a 38-year veteran of the network marketing industry with a successful history as top-earning distributor, consultant to, trainer for, and owner of network marketing companies. An early champion of telecom deregulation, he founded Alert Communications International, an industry-leading telecommunications reseller, serving agent-based customer acquisition efforts in both traditional and direct sales environments, creating in excess of $10MM in monthly commissionable billing.
As an MLM senior executive, Mike directed strategic worldwide expansion and directed business development and operational logistics in a dozen culturally-diverse markets worldwide within a strict cost-management environment, and worked with key distributors to create new opportunities, grow revenues, and penetrate emerging markets.
During the software explosion of the 1990s, he founded a software firm that crafted cutting-edge commission and genealogy tracking software, processed data for network marketing startups, and guided the successful growth of numerous direct sales companies.
A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Eastman School of Music, and University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Mike and his wife Kate were active professionals in the New York City music and Broadway Theatre world –he a professional trumpet player, Musical Director and Conductor on staff at Radio City Music Hall; she a television and Musical Theatre actress, and for three years Yul Brynner’s leading lady in “The King and I.” Their daughter Francesca Battistelli is a GRAMMY and Dove Award-winning singer/songwriter and Contemporary Christian recording artist.
