Back in 1991, Craig Dreilinger from the Dreiford Group was doing some consulting engagements for corporations with Mike. Both quickly saw that there would be some benefit in getting a group of about 15 ethics officers from local, major corporations together to talk to each other on what they were each doing in their corporations. The first meeting was at Raytheon. It was

such a successful meeting and the ethics officers were so grateful to know about each other and to exchange ideas from one another, that Mike and Craig decided to continue these discussions and thus, the Ethics Officer Association (EOA) was created. It was the very first association of its kind. (By this time, fortuitously, the FSGO’s were being created in 1992.) This group of ethics officers wanted the then, Center for Business at Bentley College to be the facilitating institution and for Mike to become the first executive director.  Because of the FSGO’s, the EOA grew very, very fast because all corporations were required to put ethics program into their corporations and corporations were scrambling to find out how to do this. Our phones were ringing off the hook. In 1995, with 500 ethics officers in the EOA, most from the Fortune 500 companies, it out grew our suite of offices in the center. Though Mike tried, and tried very hard for the college to find space on campus for this association, the college did not think or have the foresight to see the importance in having such an association on campus. At that point, the association went on its own and moved off-campus.