Michael Andrews

Michael Andrews is an Operating Executive with broad experience across energy (OGP, utility, generation and infrastructure), industrial, value-add distribution, energy related cleantech companies and UAS/Data Analytics industries.  His career has been spent navigating Teams through high-stress situations (turnarounds & rapid expansions).

The roles he has filled include Member of Global Operating Committee and SEC registered insider of a Fortune 500 company, CEO / Board positions with various private businesses and Managing Partner of a private investment firm he founded.

He is Founder and Managing Partner of Hawkstone Capital Group a private investment firm aligning Founder Owners with Operating Executives in a majority stake buyouts.  Andrews brings 25 years of experience in portfolio business management and mergers and acquisitions to his clients, where he holds various C-Level positions and Board roles.

Michael Andrews is the former Executive Vice President of General Cable Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company, and President of General Cable’s Energy and Infrastructure Group, a portfolio of nine businesses generating $1.4 billion in annual revenue.  He was part of the Senior Management Team that took General Cable from $1.45 Billion to $6.5 Billion in revenue and their stock from $3.00 to $80.00. He also led international mergers and acquisitions and global asset investment planning closing on several transactions in excess of $2 billion in annual revenue, including the acquisition of Phelps Dodge Wire and Cable, a company with operations in ten countries on four continents, and managing $80 million in annual capital expenditures respectively.

He has been a member of the Government Affairs Board of National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and an active speaker at energy, infrastructure and sustainability conferences sponsored by organizations such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, RBC, Sterne Agee and The Cleantech Group.

Andrews holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Management and Operations and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the Carl H Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati.