Mick Morrissey
Managing Principal

For over twenty years, Mick has been advising architecture, engineering, planning and environmental consulting firms. Prior to co-founding Morrissey Goodale LLC, Mick served as Director of Strategic Growth for PBS&J, one of the nation’s leading EA firms. For a decade before that he developed and led the premier management consulting business serving the AEP & Environmental Consulting industry.

Mick has authored numerous articles and publications on business management and trends in the AEC industry. He has been cited in Engineering News Record, POB, Architecture and Inc. magazines, the Boston, Sacramento and Providence Business Journals, and The Boston Globe on trends and issues in the architecture/engineering/planning and environmental consulting industry. He served as editor for ZweigWhite’s Strategic Planning Advisor and was a contributing author for the firm’s Insiders Guide to Strategic Planning and Insiders Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions. Since 1998, Mick has spoken annually at national AEC industry conferences and gatherings on the topics of strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, organization structure and leadership development and transition.

Mick serves on the Board of Directors of Kirkham Michael, Inc. (Omaha, NE) and OMNNI Associates (Appleton, WI) and is a Board Advisor to Crafton Tull Sparks (Rogers, AR).

Mick received his MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in 1994 and a BS in Civil Engineering from University College Dublin in 1986. He is a graduate of Belvedere College in Dublin, Ireland.

Mark Goodale
Principal

During his career consulting to the AEC industry, Mark has facilitated strategic business planning sessions for design and environmental firms across the nation, developed and implemented high-impact marketing, business development, and PR programs, conducted numerous merger & acquisition searches for both buyers and sellers, and served as trusted advisor and coach for dozens of industry executives.

Before helping to establish Morrissey Goodale, Mark was the Corporate Strategic Marketing Manager at PBS&J where he was charged with improving and implementing progressive corporate initiatives geared to position the firm for successful, large-scale client pursuits. Prior to that, he worked at ZweigWhite for nearly 12 years, and headed the firm's strategic business planning and marketing business units.

Mark has authored more than a dozen articles for Civil Engineering Magazine and CE News, and has been quoted many times in various industry publications and newspapers. He was also a frequent contributor to ZweigWhite’s publications and events, and authored The Healthcare Market for AEP and Environmental Consulting Firms, the first of ZweigWhite’s market intelligence reports. Always a top-rated speaker, Mark has delivered presentations around the country on a wide variety of management topics at AIA, ACEC, and NSPE events.

Mark received his MBA from the Sawyer School of Business at Suffolk University in 1994 and earned a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1990.

Mike Cauley
Principal Consultant

Mike has been involved in the AEC industry for over ten years, not only providing consulting and financial advisory services but also spending time as both a designer and as an owner’s representative within the real estate industry. Prior to formally joining Morrissey Goodale, Mike had his own financial services and business consulting practice where he provided financial advisory and business planning services to companies across multiple industries. He has also spent significant time as an investment analyst in the private equity industry working on both real estate and operational business ventures, and as an associate in ZweigWhite’s management consulting practice, focusing on financial analysis and advisory services, strategic business planning, and marketing.

During his time spent consulting and providing advisory services to the AEC industry, Mike has worked on numerous types of engagements, including the provision of financial advisory services related to both general company operations and mergers and acquisitions transactions; mergers and acquisitions searches for both buyers and sellers; comprehensive market research; the development of strategic business plans; and the production of marketing, business development, and public relations material.

Mike’s diverse background and capabilities means that he also provides advisory services to multiple types and sizes of businesses beyond the AEC industry as well. Such services include the development and management of financial analysis functionality for real estate development and investment initiatives; business forecasting and financial modeling capabilities for operational businesses; comprehensive business plans; and business process improvements. Mike has experience working with clients that include real estate development, investment, and holdings enterprises; start-up entities; small businesses; and established corporations and within industries that include commercial and residential real estate; consumer goods and services; specialty retail; manufacturing; media; technology; and private equity investment.

Mike received his MBA with a Concentration in Finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in 2003 and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University in 1999.

Nick Belitz
Principal Consultant

Nick heads Morrissey Goodale’s buy-side merger and acquisition practice, but he is also involved in the firm’s sell-side engagements, financial advisory, and strategic business planning projects. Nick’s expertise lies in financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting, as well as deal structure and strategic business analysis.

Nick has worked within and for the AEC industry since the start of his career and has held a number of roles. Before joining Morrissey Goodale, Nick was an analyst for Encana Oil & Gas, where he assessed the company’s historical natural gas production relative to its capital expenditures and human capital resources and forecasted future capital requirements. He has also worked as a project manager for commercial and residential developers, in which roles he was responsible for the overall financial performance and customer satisfaction of each of his projects. With Ascendant Development Corporation, Nick oversaw the development and construction of light industrial projects in the Western United States with a total capitalization of $72 million. He also provided regular analysis and forecasting of the financial performance of each project and communicated that information to the company’s investor groups.

Prior to working at Ascendant, Nick was a project manager with Toll Brothers, the luxury homebuilder, in the Denver area. At Toll Brothers, he oversaw developments representing $40 million in revenue while working with engineers, architects, and construction teams to build three high-end residential communities. Finally, Nick began his career at ZweigWhite in the Boston area, where he specialized in strategic business planning, merger and acquisition, and financial advisory projects for design firms and construction companies.

Nick received his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California in 2006 and graduated cum laude from Boston College in 2000.