Michael Marquardt

Marquardt T. Marquardt is an experienced CEO, corporate director, and business advisor with broad experience serving companies throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. America’s largest director institute, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), in January of 2022 named him as one of 18 Commissioners to the Future of the American Boardroom Commission, a commission co-chaired by former longtime Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb. Marquardt has earned the NACD Directorship Certification®, demonstrating his commitment to staying up to date on today’s most critical issues in corporate governance and has been invited as a speaker and author on emerging technology strategy, governance, multicultural management, and global compliance around the world. NACD also has awarded him its highest credential of Board Leadership Fellow® for nine years in a row.

From 2007 to 2016, Marquardt served as non-executive chairman of the board of healthcare services and logistics company AA International, the parent company of Asia Assistance, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with operations in eight other countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. After the sale of five of the operating entities to French insurance giant AXA in 2016, Marquardt was appointed as chairman of the board of the remaining independent companies, including AA International Indonesia, a healthcare and insurance services provider based in Jakarta.

In 2016 Marquardt was elected chairman of the supervisory board of the Paris-based International Assistance Group S.A.S. (IAG). IAG is a global consortium of 150+ independent companies with a combined staff of more than 7,500 that provide medical and security services on five continents. The IAG board has nine members from nine different countries. After his two-year term concluded in October of 2018, Marquardt was asked to continue to serve on the board’s executive committee. He stepped down in October of 2019 after 10 years of service on IAG’s supervisory board.

Since January of 2011, Marquardt has served as one of four independent directors on the board of Commonwealth Trust Company, Delaware’s largest non-deposit trust company with more than $15 billion in assets under administration.

In addition to his board service, over the past 13 years as CEO of Global Kompass Strategies, Marquardt has served as an advisor to a wide range of corporate and government clients in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He works closely with CEOs and senior leadership teams on business development, cybersecurity oversight, and strategic planning. He also advises boards of directors and audit committees on effective risk management measures, corporate governance, global expansion efforts, and emerging digital technology issues.

Marquardt gained extensive expertise in the areas of risk management, corporate governance, compliance, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when former FBI Director Louis Freeh asked him to serve as President of his global risk management firm, Freeh Group International Solutions, in early 2008. Applying his entrepreneurial and international business experience, Marquardt was integral in developing the firm’s early business relationships and engagements with several Fortune 500© and Global 500© corporations. He also assisted with the group’s strategy and business development efforts in Europe.

Marquardt grew up in Berlin and emigrated to the United States soon after witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He had the opportunity to lead a fast-growing emerging technology company before being recruited to lead a new start-up venture in late 1999. Marquardt served for seven years as co-founder and chief executive of the health services company MediGuide and led its business development initiatives in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Marquardt holds a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of New England. He is a member of the world’s largest leadership community of chief executives, the Young Presidents’ Organization, with more than 30,000 members and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. He earned the CERT Cybersecurity Oversight certificate from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and NACD in 2017.

Following his personal passions, Marquardt has served as chair of the national board of the American Cancer Society, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the United States. In 2020 and 2021 he co-chaired the national search that led to the first woman becoming CEO of this 109-year-old organization. In January of 2022, President Biden appointed Marquardt to serve on the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.