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Michael Shank

Michael Shank

American race car driver

Oct 20, 2026

2:00
Please, could we start by you giving us a little bit of your career history and how you ended up doing what you're doing today?
2:07
Yeah, so I spent pretty much my entire career in consulting with a few stops at large financial services organizations.
2:16
So my frame of reference in this whole organizational construct is really just technology.
2:21
My purview was, was the code delivered on time? Was it defect-free when it was deployed to production? Was it stable for the customers, etc.? ? So I knew nothing about really what the business did.
2:33
That was 13 years at Accenture.
2:35
Then I spent a couple of years at Bank of America in a technologist role.
2:39
Then I moved to Ernst & Young.

21 MINS LATER

23:29
But I'm wondering, what does the future of process management look like when you're talking about a world that is increasingly using technology to do work? What's the future going to look like?
8:01
And
8:01
literally before we got on here an hour ago, I was talking to Jim Meyer about it.
8:05
and how we trend, and do we go with a veteran-like person, or do we invest in the future? Ultimately, we're trying to beat Alex right now.
8:13
Everybody is.
8:15
And how best can we position ourselves to do that? You have people that have been in the series that look like they have some potential and maybe could do good things with us.
8:26
You have young people that are coming from either F2 or Indy Lights that look good to me, certainly deserve an opportunity.
8:34
What I call the freshman year in IndyCar is always a horrible thing for the most part.

11 MINS LATER

19:35
we try to live in the world of people that
19:09
thing uh mike how's your month been it's been good actually yeah we have fast race cars for sure is it rank this one on you know the maze that you've done how stressful has this one been just kind of overall
19:21
It's been tough.
19:23
It's been a little tough on the team.
19:24
We've just had so much work between this program and the sports car program.
19:28
We've got 110 people working and a lot going on.
19:31
But these three really know what they're doing.
19:33
We had a little setback with Marcus last Saturday.
20:05
However, you spread out the extra

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