Michael Emile Mahfood
Michael Emile Mahfood is the founder of Group M7, a web service company in the United States. Group M7 currently manages in excess of 1,000 websites.
In July 2017, Mahfood was appointed to the Christus Trinity Mother Frances Foundation Board. From November 2012 through July 2017, he served as the chairman of the Finance Board of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas, under Bishop Joseph Strickland. He also served from 1986–1991 as a personal secretary to Bishop Charles Herzig, the first bishop of the Diocese of Tyler. In support of the Church in East Texas, he is the sponsor of the Michael and Suzann Mahfood Scholarship, which assists in the advancement of Catholic education. In September 2017, Mahfood was elected to the Holy Apostles College and Seminary Board of Directors.
His publications include "Browsers, Business and Bandwidth: A Personal Journey down the Information Highway from the Beginnings of the World Wide Web to the Present", published by Rutgers University's Decision Line in October 2010, and many articles written for Tyler Today over the span of a decade.
His knowledge of technology and Internet workings is often used by local news media.
