The featured speaker is Mike McCarthy of McCarthy Group
Mike grew up on an Iowa family farm where they raised grain and livestock. He is one of ten children, attended Mt. Michael High School in Elkhorn, Nebraska, and St. John’s University in Minnesota where he received a degree in medieval English. After college he returned to Iowa and started a construction company, eventually branching into other businesses. In 1986, Mike and Nancy moved to Omaha and formed a new company, McCarthy Group, LLC., an investment holding company that partners with managers to acquire and grow businesses. McCarthy Group is currently invested in more than forty businesses, a portfolio that includes several Omaha companies – Elections Systems & Software, America’s largest election services business, Scooters, a coffee franchise with more than 800 stores and Bridges Trust, a multi-generational family office management company.
