Michael Connolly

Michael Connolly is the current CEO at Sonobi, a position they have held since the company’s founding in 2010. Prior to Sonobi, Connolly served as a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Digital Tech Publishing from January 2010 to June 2012. There, they helped build a variety of web tools with a website in the Alexa top 1000. The company published 1.5 Billion ad impressions per month and attracted over 20 Million unique visitors per month. In August 2012, Digital Tech Publishing was acquired by Crowd Shout ltd.

Connolly began their professional career in 2001 as an Aviator/Operations Officer/CPT in the US Army. Michael was commissioned as an ARMY Officer and branch Aviation. Michael was later qualified as a certified Flight Instructor rotary wing and an ARMY Aviator. During their time in the Army, Connolly led over 100 soldiers and was responsible for the training, health and welfare, and overall readiness of all soldiers and millions of dollars in equipment. In 2008, they served as an Operations Officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom and managed 8 mission sets daily and 24 personnel in 3 different geographic locations.

Michael Connolly has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Philosophy from University at Albany, SUNY. Michael also has a Master of Business Administration - MBA - Sloan from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Management Science. Michael Connolly is also an Aviator from US ARMY Aviation Center Of Excellence and has a Commission as 2LT in Army ROTC from US ARMY ROTC in Military Science and Operations.

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