Mike Russo

Mike Russo is the President and CEO of the National Institute for Industry and Career Advancement, a 501(c)(3) with a mission to ensure the nation’s talent pipeline exists to support strategic industry sectors – advanced manufacturing and tech related industries tied to U.S. national security and global competitiveness - with a major focus on semiconductor, nanotechnology, and advanced manufacturing related supply chains.    

 

Prior to the Institute, Russo served for more than a decade in senior leadership positions in the semiconductor industry in policy development, government affairs and was responsible for the development and execution of strategies to support infrastructure and workforce development.    

 

Russo has also served as a private sector advisor to the U.S. government for manufacturing and industrial base policy and lead the private sector advisory group for the National Network of Manufacturing Innovation Institute (now Manufacturing USA) under the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), and served on the U.S. Labor Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships.      

 

With more than four decades of experience in manufacturing and workforce innovation, Russo is a subject matter expert in skills-based learning and has extensive experience in workforce and organizational development, supply chain innovation and security, and infrastructure development.