About / Biography

Mike Saxon is the Managing Director and Founder of Storm King Group, LLC, which aims to partner with the most interesting businesses engaging in the most compelling projects, including helping companies build effective leadership teams, providing operations and strategy support for change and growth, educating executive teams on transformative technologies, and embedding important values and ethics in a digital world. Our partnerships run the gamut from early-stage startups to established growth companies.

Mike retired from the US Army as a Lieutenant Colonel.  During his service of over 23 years he served in armor, infantry, and cavalry units, including service in Kandahar Afghanistan in a Stryker reconnaissance squadron.  He taught for a total of nine years at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and served as the director of the core ethics education program at West Point, which provides education in ethics and logic and reasoning for 1,100 students annually. He graduated from West Point with a BS in Literature and Philosophy, with a minor in Systems Engineering, and earned an MA and then PhD, both in Philosophy, from Indiana University.

His professional interests include emerging and disruptive technologies; ethics; planning, operations, and strategy; and transformational leadership.

His personal interests include philosophy; technology; cryptocurrency; robotics and drones; driving, automobiles, and motorsports; and photography and videography.

Recent Projects

Teacher of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 101 / 102

Speaker on Ethics, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence

Managing Director of an autonomous race team

Professor of Business Ethics

Senior Advisor to a hyper growth financial technology company

Board member and fundraiser for non-profits

Senior Advisor to a Top-25 consulting firm

Visiting Scholar at a University Robotics Research Center

Philosophy of Work

Mike serves as Founder and Managing Director of Storm King Group, LLC.

Storm King Group (SKG), named after Storm King Mountain that presides over West Point in New York’s Hudson River Valley, came into being in 2017 when a group of ex-Army officers and West Point professors believed in their bones that the values that had served them well over the course of their military careers— Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage— could be applied alongside their decades of experience in leadership, operations, planning and strategy, emerging technologies, and communications to create a unique and valuable offering in the business consulting space.

Military service is a purpose-driven profession and SKG was built from the beginning to be a business that nested with our desire to live good lives of service, where business is situated within a clear understanding of our values and a genuine wish to continue to serve our communities. We were blessed with early opportunities that young consultancies don’t often get and have built upon those early successes to grow our team and offerings to create what we think is a unique, values-based “muddy boots” consulting process that gets results.