Michael Northover

Michael Northover is currently the Chief Information Officer for Information Technology at Portland Community College. Prior to this, they served as the CTO for Clinicient from January 2014 to December 2015 where they were responsible for all aspects of technology. Northover successfully turned the company around by driving a strategic technology program in alignment with business growth strategy. Some of their notable achievements during their time at Clinicient include stabilizing the legacy SaaS platform, upgrading and virtualizing the infrastructure to meet 60% YoY growth, and deploying a new REST architecture product suite on MS Azure Cloud platform.

Before their work at Clinicient, Northover worked at IBM from January 2006 to December 2012 as the CTO/Managing Director IT. There, they managed all aspects of technology for a national mortgage servicer (Wilshire Credit Corp/Seterus Inc.). During their time with the company, Northover successfully implemented new business-rule and BPM technologies to support HAMP & HARP programs and successfully transformed the company during a massive business expansion and two corporate mergers & acquisitions (Merrill Lynch > Bank of America > IBM).

In 2012, Northover founded and became the owner of Mirolo Chocolatier where they remained until 2014.

Michael Northover has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Management Information Systems from Saint Peter's University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Newcastle University. Michael also has certification from the University of Oregon in Cybersecurity Bootcamp, ASU GSV Summit in ASU GSV Virtual Summit 2020, ISACA in CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), and The Open Group in Enterprise Architect (TOGAF 9).

Michael Northover works with Karen Paez - AVP, Academic and Career Pathways, Kate Chester - Director, Community Engagement, and Kurt Simonds - Executive Dean of College Operations. Michael Northover reports to Adrien Bennings, President.