Welcome to our new Ciocca Center board members, Mike Bianco and Mike Shaughnessy! These accomplished individuals have stories worth sharing full of taking risks, learning from failure, and winning in tough markets. Thank you Mike— and Mike!— for believing in us and helping push the Ciocca Center forward. 💡🤝
Meet Mike Bianco
Mike Bianco graduated from Franciscan in 2011 with a degree in Mathematics and Economics. After a couple of failed business ideas, he built a technology company (SuiteSync) to automate accounting processes for enterprise companies. In a little over two years, he hired a small team, sold the software to companies like IndieGoGo and Glassdoor, and was acquired by the largest privately held company in the country—Stripe.
After working for Stripe for a couple of years, Michael recently left to build his next business. Mike and his wife Emily have been married for nine years, live in Denver, CO, and have four young children.
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Meet Mike Shaughnessy
Mike Shaughnessy is the retired co-chairman and president of ColorMatrix. He and his business partner acquired full ownership of a small plastics colorant manufacturer joint venture that became ColorMatrix in 1985.
In May 2006, Mike sold ColorMatrix to Audax, at which time he became co-chairman until the sale of the business in December 2011.
Mr. Shaughnessy currently serves on the advisory boards of three private equity funds and is an investor in those funds. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards, most notably The Catholic Community Foundation, Urban Squash (co-founder & emeritus), The Western Reserve Land Conservancy (former), Notre Dame College (emeritus), Greater Cleveland Squash Association (emeritus), and White North Stables (former).
