Mr. Battistelli is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Eastman School of Music, and completed post-graduate work at University of Massachusetts. During the 1980s while building their first network marketing organization, Mike and his beautiful wife Kate were active professionals in the music and Broadway Theatre world of New York City - he as a professional trumpet player, Musical Director and Conductor and on staff at Radio City Music Hall; she as television and musical theatre actress, and for three years Yul Brynner's leading lady in "The King and I". Their daughter Francesca Battistelli is a Grammy-nominated and ten-time Dove Award-nominated Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter and recording artist whose major label debut "My Paper Heart" was released on the Warner/Reprise/Word label in 2008.