Michael Silva

Michael Silva is the Chief Executive Officer of EoSync Global. He is the retired Chief Executive Officer of Wirthlin-Dentons. Prior to the partnership of Wirthlin Worldwide and Dentons in 2011, resulting in Wirthlin-Dentons, Michael was the Chief Executive Officer of Wirthlin Worldwide from 1999-2011.

Michael is a specialist in the management of crisis, providing strategic redirection during conditions of extreme organizational stress with an emphasis on government agencies. He has provided advisory services in crisis management to Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Michael has been personally involved in crisis projects including Exxon Valdez, Union Carbide Bhopal, Brazil IMF Debt Renegotiation, Johnson and Johnson Tylenol, FBI Waco Texas, Parmalat, and Roman Catholic Sexual Abuse.

In addition to crisis management Michael developed international-transaction experience in an exclusive partnership with Itochu Corporation commencing in 1985 evolving to Wirthlin Worldwide Itochu Management Consulting.

Mr. Silva was the first Research and Graduate assistant to Dr. Stephen R. Covey at Brigham Young University Graduate School of Business and was intimately involved in the evolution of Covey and Associates (now Franklin Covey). He has authored four books two of which are international best sellers on corporate strategy and crisis management, published by John Wiley & Sons, New York.