Mike Zettler

Mike retired from the USAF in 2004 as an Air Force Lieutenant General with nearly 34 years of service. He also held positions of significance in the defense industries. He is involved with several community projects including the capital campaign for the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center Fisher House, annual interviews for the Warren County Ohio Veterans Services Commission, the Coffman YMCA, and past president of Sycamore Creek Country Club.

A Fairfield, OH, native, Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Science in Management from Troy State University. He is also a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (1986), Armed Forces Staff College (1982), Squadron Officer School (1977), Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Long Course for Senior Officials in National Security (1994) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Seminar XX1 (1996).

Mike had numerous assignments across the U.S. and overseas in Viet Nam, Thailand, Korea and Germany. His command assignments included: the Oklahoma Air Logistics Center and Tinker Air Force Base OK; the 82nd Training Wing, Sheppard Air Force Base TX; and the 36th Aircraft Generation Squadron, Bitburg AB GE. He was the Air Force’s Director of Maintenance. In his final USAF assignment, he served as the Headquarters USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics from 2000-2003 in the Pentagon.

He was a Vice President at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics from 2011-2014, where he led global F-35 Sustainment strategy and implementation. He was responsible for collaborating with the DoD Joint Program Office, the U.S. Military Services and the partner countries to provide cost-effective F-35 logistics solutions.

Mike has also owned and operated Z-Zettler Consulting. He was a senior vice president of SI International-Logistics (2007-2009) and was president of LOGTEC (2004-2008) in Fairborn OH. In addition, he has served on numerous corporate boards over the past seven years.