Michael Cherkasky
Michael G. Cherkasky is Chief Executive Officer of Altegrity, the global screening and security solutions company headquartered in Falls Church, Va., with more than 11,000 employees in locations around the world. Altegrity is the holding company for USIS, Kroll, HireRight, and Explore Information Services.
For the past 25 years, Mr. Cherkasky has supported the law enforcement community in numerous oversight and policy development roles. Early in his career, he served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and later became an Assistant District Attorney in New York County. While in the District Attorney’s office, Mr. Cherkasky served as a trial attorney, Trial Bureau Chief, Chief of the Rackets Bureau, and Chief of the Investigations Division. In this capacity, he led the division’s investigations on fraud, corruption, money laundering, organized crime figures such as John Gotti, and the state investigation of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
In 1994, after his 16-year career serving the public, Mr. Cherkasky joined Kroll, Inc., and founded and led Kroll Monitoring Services. While in this position, he was appointed by various U.S. federal courts to oversee federal consent decrees with organizations such as the Long Island carting industry and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. From 2001 through July 2009, Mr. Cherkasky served as the Independent Monitor for the Los Angeles Police Department, using his extensive career as an attorney and experience with the law enforcement community to lead an official oversight board for policies and procedures associated with LAPD’s organizational management, training, and investigative practices.
Mr. Cherkasky is also active in several public leadership roles. In addition to being chairman of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity, Mr. Cherkasky is the transition leader for Cyrus Vance, Jr., Manhattan district attorney, following his November 2009 election to assume the high-profile position that Robert Morgenthau, who earned the reputation as the “world’s district attorney,†held for more than three decades.
When named CEO of Kroll, Inc., Mr. Cherkasky led an organization focused on supporting the law enforcement community, both domestically and abroad, and providing training services for government and contractor personnel preparing to deploy overseas to support the global war on terrorism. In 2004, Kroll, Inc. was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a global professional services firm, and Mr. Cherkasky was appointed President and CEO. He held this position until 2008 and joined USIS in July 2008 in the same capacity. The USIS holding company name was rebranded as Altegrity in 2009.
Mr. Cherkasky earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1972 and his Juris Doctorate at Case Western Reserve University in 1975. In 2010, he was appointed to the university’s Board of Trustees.
