mike-griffin
Mike Griffin
WickedHyper™ Board Member
Mike was born and raised in Wisconsin. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree, concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. Griff, as he is known to his friends, served in the Army as an Artillery Officer, attaining the rank of Captain. Positions he held included Forward Observer, Executive Officer, Battalion Maintenance Officer, and Battalion Special Weapons Officer.
Upon leaving the Army in 1985, Mike joined Nalco Chemical Company as a water treatment sales and service representative treating boilers, cooling towers and waste water in the Rochester, MN area. He left Nalco in December of 1989 to start his own water treatment company, Hydro Technologies, in Lake Mills, WI. In September 1999 Griff’s company was acquired by HOH Water Technology in Palatine, IL. Subsequently, Mike has worked for HOH for 21 years during which time he held numerous positions – Sales Manager of the Wisconsin Division, Vice President of Engineering, Executive Vice President, and Vice President of Water Safety Compliance. HOH is a privately held family-owned company. Griff served as President from 2014 to 2016 as a bridge from the Second-Generation Owner to his son, during which time the company experienced record profits in 2015 and 2016.
From 1999 – 2009 Mike also built and operated a Truck Wash, a Long John Silver’s/A&W fast food restaurant, and a Microtel Hotel. He sold all three of those enterprises by 2010 so that he could move to Palatine to assist the owner with his succession planning, as well as preparing for the transition of turning the company over to his son.
Mike has been married to his wife Shelly for 41 years; they have two sons, Tim, and Tom, and four grandsons, Liam, Dillan, Owen, and Adam.
Mike Griffin
WickedHyper™ Board Member
John retired as a Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Naval Reserve after 38 continuous years of service and is President of Vickerman Associates, LLC, a firm specializing in the planning and design of port, intermodal and freight logistics facilities worldwide.
John is a true visionary in the global maritime and intermodal industry. He has worked on major port and intermodal rail projects throughout the United States, North America and the world for more than 35 years. 67 of the 90 U.S. deep-water general cargo ports have benefited from John’s strategic port master planning and development designs. His international practice includes consulting assignments for many of the Canadian Ports, the Ports of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, Melbourne Australia, the Panama Canal Authority, various African Ports, the intermodal freight analysis for the Eurotunnel between England and France, the Port of Pecém, Brazil, the new Port of Castilla, Honduras and emerging new Transshipment Port and Logistics Projects in Latin America.
John has served as a member of the USDOT Freight Roundtable Advisory Board to the US Secretary of Transportation. He completed three terms as Chairperson for the Intermodal Freight Terminal Design and Operations Committee under the purview of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)/National Research Council (NRC), National Academy of Science. He has served on many national Policy Committees for the TRB and was an advisory board member to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Global Maritime and Transportation School. John currently serves as a Board Member of the United States Maritime Resource Center Inc. (USMRC) and the Maritime Simulation Institute (MSI), Newport County, Rhode Island (ISO 9001 – Multiple Vessel Full-Mission Visual Bridge Simulators).
John and his wife live in Williamsburg, Virginia.