Mike Kelly’s career has come full circle in the 30-plus years he has been with 3M. He has served as the company’s executive vice president of the Electronics and Energy Business Group since 2012 – the same area that gave him his start in 1981.
Mike joined 3M that year as a sales rep with the Electronic Products Division and became a sales and marketing supervisor. In 1988, Mike took a new role as marketing manager for Electric Products with 3M Europe. Returning to the U.S. in 1991, he remained with the division as a business manager and marketing director for Advanced Microflex Products.
In 2000, he moved to 3M Singapore to become business director for Advanced Microflex Products and, a year later, became managing director of 3M Korea. He returned to the U.S. two years later as general manager of the Performance Materials Division. He later served as division vice president of the Occupational Health and Environmental Safety Division before becoming executive vice president of the Display and Graphics Business. In 2012, he took on his current role of executive vice president of the Electronics and Energy Business Group, based at 3M’s campus in Austin, Texas.
Over the years, Mike has sat on the board of governors of AMCHAM in Seoul, South Korea, and the board of the International Safety Equipment Association. He also worked with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on its Corporate Citizenship Initiative. Mike is on the board of Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. He holds degrees in business administration and finance and attended graduate school at St. Edwards University and executive education at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.