Full Name
Mike Foley
Job Title
Director, Department of Sustainability
Company
Cuyahoga County
Speaker Bio
Mike Foley is the first Director of the Department of Sustainability for Cuyahoga County. He was appointed to lead the office in February 2015 by Executive Armond Budish after having served in the Ohio General Assembly from 2006-2014. Since 2015, Mike has led the office in developing the County’s first Climate Change Action Plan, assisted with the County directly adding over 45,000 solar panels into the community (including an award winning 4 Mw landfill solar project), and in 2021, creating a new County public utility focusing on clean, resilient and affordable microgrid districts.
Mike Foley