Michael Horsey

About Michael

• I grew up in Philadelphia around a lot of gang violence, but my mother was a huge positive influence and pushed education as a way to break away from that environment.
• After high school, Carnegie Mellon University offered me scholarships to go to their school, so I went for industrial engineering because it was the closest major to business at the school.
• Ended up transferring to the University of Pennsylvania for economics after one year—it was an all-around better decision for what I wanted to do.
• One of my fraternity brothers, who worked for Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), helped me get an interview with the company—I worked there for six years.
• It was hard for African Americans in Philadelphia to get commercial engagements, but I was able to get a job in Johnson & Johnson’s internal audit group.
• I went on to join Mitchell & Titus, which is the largest minority-controlled accounting firm in the U.S.
• After 27 years at Mitchell & Titus, I’m now CEO and chairman of my own firm, Horsey, Buckner & Heffler.
• I serve on several boards, including the African American Museum of Philadelphia, and founded The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia to support academic and athletic achievement in high school and college.