Forte Group Names Michael Makishima as its Chief Financial Officer

Published on October 31, 2022

Forte Group, a global digital engineering services company that collaborates closely with its clients to ideate and build the future of digital products and platforms, today named Michael Makishima as the company’s Chief Financial Officer.

Mikael Carlsson, Forte Group’s CEO, and Makishima are long-time business associates who successfully worked together and scaled businesses at Capgemini and Lohika. They will build on Forte Group’s success and continue its trajectory to the forefront of the industry, driving new service offerings, new technology capabilities, and wider integrated delivery platforms to clients across the U.S. and internationally.

With Michael on board, we are ready for our next big steps as a company. His broad experience and deep knowledge of how to grow and move a company forward organically and via M&A, along with his expertise in building excellent organizations will help us develop a strong future.

Mikael Carlsson, Chief Executive Officer, Forte Group.

Most recently, Makishima has served as VP of Finance at Capgemini and he brings more than 20 years of business leadership in strategic management, corporate development, M&A, business analytics and modeling with a broad experience within the digital engineering services industry.

I am very excited about the unique opportunity to work with Mikael and the team at Forte Group to grow and develop us into an industry leader. With the strong culture and the deep technical expertise of our global team, I am very excited to continue building on our deep passion for creating digital products that users love, as we continue our vibrant growth.

Michael Makishima, CFO, Forte Group.

Originally published in a press release on Business Wire.

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