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Dr. Michael A. Krafft is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Global Resilience Solutions Group (GRSG), a governance-embedded resilience infrastructure company redefining how fragile and emerging-market trade systems are understood, de-risked, and modernized. A former U.S. Marine, seasoned executive, founder, and scholar-practitioner, Dr. Krafft brings together decades of leadership experience across global operations, finance, strategic growth, and systems-level problem solving. His work sits at the intersection of complex adaptive systems, supply chain resilience, trust architecture, digital twin modeling, and implementation-grade governance. His core thesis is straightforward but urgent: most supply-chain failures are not logistics failures first — they are failures of trust, governance, coordination, and decision visibility. That belief is the foundation of GRSG's work and the basis for a new category he is helping define: Resilience-as-a-Service™. Through GRSG, Dr. Krafft is building practical systems that help governments, investors, operators, and ecosystem stakeholders move from uncertainty to alignment, from fragmentation to shared system truth, and from risk exposure to resilient execution. GRSG's methodology integrates innovations such as ContextBridge™, Human-Plus™, ResilientChain™, and digital twin-enabled decision support to make complex systems more governable, adaptive, and investable. His leadership is shaped by a rare combination of mission discipline, executive rigor, academic depth, and long-term systems thinking. GRSG is also supported by a globally respected board and advisory ecosystem aligned around the belief that resilient trade systems require more than technology alone — they require trust, structure, and implementation that can hold under pressure. Dr. Krafft is passionate about building the next generation of resilience infrastructure for frontier and emerging markets, beginning with real-world, corridor-level applications such as Ghana-First. If your work touches resilience, trade systems, corridor modernization, governance, digital twins, or implementation in complex environments, he welcomes thoughtful connection and conversation.
Dr. Michael A. Krafft is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Global Resilience Solutions Group (GRSG), where he leads the organization's mission to address complex global challenges through sustainable development, technological innovation, and systems thinking. Dr. Krafft holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Systems from Saybrook University. He earned an MBA in International Finance from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. In December 2024, he completed two Master of Science degrees at Arizona State University's College of Global Futures: one in Global Technology and Development with a concentration in Applied International Development, and another in Complex Systems Science. His academic journey reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, integrating insights from various fields to develop scalable and resilient solutions. With over two decades of global professional experience, Dr. Krafft has worked extensively in regions including East Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. His expertise encompasses strategic planning, global operations management, international finance, mergers and acquisitions, and data-driven decision-making. Before founding GSG, he held leadership positions at organizations such as M&A Media Group, Telesystems International Wireless, Greek Media Ventures, and Metromedia International Group, Inc., where he played a key role in driving transformative change and fostering sustainable growth. Dr. Krafft's dedication to lifelong learning and his interdisciplinary approach position him uniquely to lead GSG in its efforts to create sustainable solutions for complex global issues. His leadership is characterized by a deep understanding of international development and a commitment to integrating advanced computational methods and systems science into practical applications.
San Francisco, CA, December 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- M&A Media Group, LLC (M&AMG) is pleased to announce today Michael A. Krafft founds and launches the Global Center for Economic Enabling Environments (GCEEE) at the American Economic Association (AEA) and American Finance Association (AFA) annual summit meetings in San Francisco. ✅ GCEEE’s mission is to provide a platform and create insight so policy makers and small and middle sized enterprises can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by creating an enabling environment where investments can flourish. This mission is built upon a worldview that embraces transparency, rule of law, principles of positive social change, human development, organizational & social systems, corporate financial theory, and investment & international finance best method practices. Service Focus: ➤ Public Sector/NGO Strategic Planning. Development of strategic or business plan recommendations and other organizational or programmatic initiative processes for public sector/NGO clients. ➤ Public Sector/NGO Communications & Public Outreach. ➤ Public Sector/NGO Organizational Assessment and Change Management Implementation Services. Assessment, planning and other assistance to public sector/NGO clients to support the implementation of organizational change and/or strategic or business plan recommendations. ➤ Nonprofit Capacity Building Services. Training, coaching, and consulting services to improve the performance of nonprofit organizations resulting in improved performance on contracts and grants. ➤ Monitoring and Evaluation.
M&A Media Group, LLC is a boutique investment bank providing financial advisory services, offering mergers and acquisitions advisory, divestitures, management buy-outs, debt and equity financing, fairness opinions, business valuation, and leveraged recapitalization consulting services. Founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, WA with additional offices in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY. Firm provides transaction due diligence, negotiation, and document preparation services. It caters to media, entertainment, telecommunications, and information technology sectors. ✅ March 2014 and 2015, M&A Media Group was recognized as an emerging leader, able to set benchmarks by the USIEC for its productive exercise of business ethics and company values, and success in its local business environment and industry category. ✅ Specialization in cross-border M&As in growth, buyouts and late stage companies investment banking advisory services. ✅ M&AMG seeks to partner/invest in digital media, entertainment, and information technology sectors with a focus on broadcast, radio, cable, telecommunications, outdoor advertising, wireless communication, and internet services. ★ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=2413344
AGIF Appoints Michael A. Krafft to Its Board and as Treasurer Philip B. Auerbach, President and Founder of the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF) announces the appointment of Michael A. Krafft to the organization’s Board of Directors and as its Treasurer. Just launched officially in late August 2018, the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF; www.theAGIF.org) presents a unique, comprehensive, one-stop resource for all nonprofits to advance and enhance their missions because half of them (1.5 million in the US) fail within three to five years. The AGIF Appoints Michael A. Krafft to Its Board and as Treasurer Alameda, CA, September 27, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Philip B. Auerbach, President and Founder of the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF) has announced the appointment of Michael A. Krafft to the organization’s Board of Directors and as its Treasurer. “I am delighted to welcome Mr. Krafft,” Philip Auerbach said. “The range of experiences and talents that he brings to the Board will greatly accelerate progress towards our strategic goals of advancing and enhancing the missions of all nonprofits.” Michael A. Krafft is the CEO of M&A Media Group, a financial services firm. For more than 20 years, he has built deep funding relationships with leading strategic and institutional investors, private equity funds, and venture capital firms as well as the World Bank, IMF, EBRD, OECD, and OPIC. He has also served on many other US and international nonprofit boards.
Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) has been called “the gold standard in international engagement programs” by The Huffington Post. Founded in 1995, FSD reduces global poverty by providing over 300 grassroots community organizations around the world and professionals and volunteers in the U.S. with training and key resources to address pressing socio economic issues. ✅ Mr. Krafft attended a vertical program, (Saybrook's Ph. D. degree) for creative change that allowed him to comprehend the breadth and depth of contemporary global challenges to a sustainable world, and to enhance the capacity to organize and coordinate successful change efforts with the main focus on the humanistic perspective concerning social systems. ✅ Acquired ability to critically evaluate existing sustainability theories and models, and to utilize currently available tools, techniques, and practices. ✅ Developed skills in organizational systems design and transformation, organizational learning and development, organizational management, and leadership development to accumulate strengths required to lead organizational change, and to transform organizations and their personnel to comply with the merging global needs for sustainability. ✅ Competency in innovative organizational and social systems change, in combination of research and practice to reduce poverty rates in emerging markets, and improvement of conducting management, human resources administration, consulting, and non-profit leadership. ✅ Investigated possibilities to make contributions to a sustainable world with adherence to cultural, ethical, and psychological aspects of transformation.