Michael Mershimer

Role & Contributions

Mike is the practice leader of the Compliance, Audit, and Loss Prevention business. The primary objective of this team is helping clients, by driving their brands to high profit and franchise owner wealth via sales reporting integrity and brand compliance. We do this by solving complex problems for clients that create risk and loss exposure to the brand.

Experience & Background

Over the past 25 years, Mike has designed, managed, and provided strategies which solve complex problems for worldwide foodservice, franchise and retail brands. He has helped hundreds of brands globally deter franchise sales underreporting, improve brand compliance, and reduce inventory shrinkage and other losses.

Mike is a globally recognized speaker and advisor to global brand Executives. He is the past President of MSPA-Americas, and sat on the MSPA Global Board of Directors. Mike has been a member of the National Restaurant Association’s Internal Audit and Loss Prevention Executive Study Groups, where he has served as past chairman of both groups, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the National Food Service Security Council, where he is a past Board Member.

Mike has appeared in Forbes Magazine, Nations Restaurant News, QSR Magazine, NBC Nightly News, ABC News Online, CNBC, and Money with Melissa Francis on the Fox Business channel.