Michael A Petrullo

Michael A. Petrullo is President and CEO of HireRight, one of the world's largest providers of employment screening services. HireRight serves more than 30,000 commercial customers in the U.S. and overseas, including more than one-third of the Fortune 500. Mr. Petrullo assumed the role of President and CEO of HireRight in September 2009. He joined the company in March 2009, initially serving as a senior vice president on the Altegrity corporate leadership team, focusing on organic and inorganic growth initiatives to expand the solutions Altegrity provides to its existing customers and to develop new opportunities in both the government and commercial markets. He is a seasoned finance and operations executive with significant M&A and restructuring experience and an outstanding track record of leadership and accomplishment driving organizational change and development. Prior to Altegrity, Mr. Petrullo served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC). There, he helped design a new business model and led restructuring efforts in 2005 that resulted in $650 million of annual cost savings for the company. He developed the strategy for MMC’s Operational Excellence Program, which resulted in $350 million of annual cost savings from leveraging best practices companywide in the infrastructure and administrative functions. He served on MMC’s executive committee and was the chairman of its operating committee. Prior to that position, he served as chief financial officer for Marsh-Kroll Risk Consulting. During this period, Mr. Petrullo was responsible for several successful acquisition and merger transition efforts, including the successful integration of Kroll, Inc. with MMC and the combination of Marsh’s Risk Consulting business into Kroll’s operations. Mr. Petrullo was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kroll from May 2002 to July 2004, where he restructured the management of the operating units from a regional-based management system to a product line system. He was the chairman of the operations committee and a member of both the executive and expansion committees. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility with the company, beginning with his arrival at Kroll Associates in 1995 as Assistant Controller. From 1990 to 1995, he served as a member of the audit and assurance practice and forensic accounting practice of KPMG, Peat Marwick, LLP. Mr. Petrullo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York