C. Michael Petters
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|name = Mike Petters
|image = Michael Petters, President & CEO HII, 2006-10-07.jpg
|birth_name = Clement Michael Petters
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}}
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|education = United States Naval Academy (BS)
Mason School of Business (MBA)
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Clement Michael Petters ("Mike", born 1959) is president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, an American military shipbuilding company.{{cite web|title=C. Michael Petters|url=http://ceocouncil.wsj.com/?members=c-michael-petters|publisher=Wall Street Journal CEO Council|accessdate=30 October 2014}} {{cite web|title=Huntington Ingalls Industries|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2013/05/20/huntington-ingalls-may-be-the-safest-bet-in-the-defense-sector/|work=Forbes|accessdate=10 December 2014}}
Career
Petters assumed his role as president and CEO on March 31, 2011. He is also a member of the Huntington Ingalls Industries board of directors.{{cite web|title=C. Michael Petters|url=http://www.nbr.org/About/bod.aspx?id=364dc285-61f9-45a0-bad9-ab51845cbb96|publisher=National Bureau of Asian Research|accessdate=30 October 2014}} From 2008 until his appointment in 2011, he was the president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. Prior to this position, he was the president of Northrop Grumman's Newport News sector.{{cite web|title=C. Michael Petters|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=363279&ticker=HII|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141030074504/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=363279&ticker=HII|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2014|publisher=Business Week|accessdate=30 October 2014}} Petters first came to Newport News Shipbuilding in 1987 in their Los Angeles-class submarine construction division. He held a number of positions that included being the production supervisor for submarines, the marketing manager for submarines and carriers.{{failed verification|date=February 2023}}
Board and advisory positions
Petters is the vice chairman of the Virginia Business Council. He is on the board of directors for the US Naval Academy Foundation and also for the National Bureau of Asian Research. He is on the board of trustees for the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. He is on the advisory council for the Naval Historical Foundation and he is on the distinguished advisory board for the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation.{{failed verification|date=February 2023}}
Background and education
Mike Petters grew up in the rural community of St. Joseph in northeastern Pasco County, Florida on a large orange and cattle farm, and was a 1977 graduate of Jesuit High School in Tampa.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jesuittampa.org/page.cfm?p=597&newsid=324|title = Veterans Day}} Petters earned bachelor's degree in physics from the US Naval Academy in 1982.{{cite web|title=C. Michael Petters|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/c-petters/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004050140/http://www.forbes.com/profile/c-petters/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2012|work=Forbes|accessdate=30 October 2014}} Commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy,{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/97th-congress/1116/all-info|title=All Information for PN1116|website=U.S. Congress|date=12 May 1982|accessdate=9 October 2016}} he qualified as a Submarine Warfare Officer.
He has a master's degree in business administration from the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary.{{cite web |title=Mike Petters MBA '93 |url=https://mason.wm.edu/news/business-in-residence/eir-andrews/mike-petters.php |publisher=Raymond A. Mason School of Business |access-date=9 February 2023}}
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