Mike McCarthy is the new Executive Director at the Pentagon Memorial Fund (PMF). Mike provides strategic leadership in fundraising for a preservation endowment of the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial and he provides continuing educational opportunities through the design and construction of the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center (VEC); a space where visitors can learn about the events of 9/11, the lives lost, and the historic significance of the Pentagon Memorial site. Mike has more than 30 years of nonprofit and for-profit experience. He most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization with a $1 billion endowment.