Michael Falkow, PMP®
Chief Operating Officer
Board of Directors

Dr. Falkow has extensive technology, project management, business development, finance, and senior executive-level municipal administration experience.

As a successful innovator, he identifies strategies, business prospects, and technologies in order to develop new organizational models, industry structures, and component architectures with strategic partners to serve and expand those opportunities.

Dr. Falkow currently serves as an adjunct faculty at California State University, Fullerton and the University of La Verne where he teaches graduate courses in computer science, software engineering, and public administration and criminal justice. He also teaches executive education courses for both the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Falkow retired from the City of Inglewood, California in 2018 where he served as the Assistant City Manager for 12 years and was responsible for multiple city departments and organizational areas. Dr. Falkow completed his doctorate in policy, planning and development at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC in December of 2020. In 2013, Dr. Falkow completed a Master of Arts in Security Studies (Homeland Defense and Security) from the United States Naval Postgraduate School where he received the outstanding thesis award. Dr. Falkow also holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science both in Computer Science from California State University, Fullerton, and he is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology.