Mike McGarry

Mike McGarry

President Emeritus

Mr. McGarry currently serves as President Emeritus and a relationship manager with select clients and leading business development for the cybersecurity product line.

Mr. McGarry began his career as a high school mathematics teacher and athletic coach. He soon migrated to the business world where he spent 16 years within IBM in various sales, marketing, and leadership positions.

After receiving considerable recognition and building a strong portfolio of sales and sales leadership skills, Mr. McGarry worked with Roger Schank, Ph.D., to build Cognitive Arts from a start-up. Mr. McGarry was instrumental in growing the company to an annual revenue of $10M and 140 people, and leading the company's efforts to raise $17M in capital. Mr. McGarry was then recruited back by Dr. Schank to start Socratic Arts and build it into a premier provider of learning solutions for Fortune 100 companies as well as firms in various other global industries. He served as the president of Socratic Arts for almost 20 years before stepping down in 2021.

Mr. McGarry's strengths include a passion for leadership; a track record of success in closing F500 clients and in accessing the executive suite in doing so; solving complicated problems; account strategy; resource utilization; mentoring/coaching; and public speaking. Mr. McGarry holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.


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