C. Michael Armstrong is chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Health System, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the retired chairman of Comcast and the former chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T and Hughes Electronics. Prior to these positions, he spent more than three decades with IBM. Beginning as a systems engineer, he rose through the ranks to become chairman of the Board of the IBM World Trade Corporation.
Born October 18, 1938 in Detroit, Armstrong earned a bachelor of science degree in business and economics from Miami University in Ohio in 1961 and completed the advanced management curriculum at Dartmouth Institute in 1976. He was awarded honorary doctor of law degrees from Pepperdine University in 1997, Loyola Marymount University in 1998, Shenandoah University in 2004, Miami University in 2007, and a doctor of engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2000.
An active supporter of higher education and community activities, Armstrong is vice chairman of Johns Hopkins University board of trustees, and chair of the Corporate/Foundation Campaign at Miami University. He is co-founder and past president of A Better Chance (ABC) in Darien, Connecticut and past president of the Darien YMCA. He is a member of the All Stars Advisory Board in New York City.
Armstrong is the former chairman of the President’s Export Council under President Clinton, the US – Japan Business Council, and the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. He is a former member of the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, where he served as chairman of the Homeland Security Task Force, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and the Defense Policy Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Conference Board.
Armstrong serves on the board of directors of IHS (Information Handling Systems), Parsons Corporation, IDS, The Philharmonic Center for Arts (Naples, FL), the Forum Club of Southwest Florida and the Telluride Foundation. He is a senior advisor at SV Investment Partners and Tudor Venture Capital.
