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Mr. Russo has over twenty years of experience as a growth and operations leader in the federal contracting marketplace. As Vice President of Growth and Strategy he is responsible for delivering profitable growth while ensuring continued customer service excellence, creating strategic partnerships, and expanding service lines.

During his career Mr. Russo has served at the executive level and consulted for high growth defense, civilian agency, and commercial contractors. As founder and Principal Consultant of FedConsultants Mr. Russo assisted clients in winning over $3 billion in revenue. During that time he also served for four years on the Board of Directors for Olympus Building Services, an $18 Million business unit of a $3 billion publicly traded investment portfolio.

As Vice President of Business Development and later as Vice President of Strategic Growth for VT Group’s North American Unit, Mr. Russo was responsible for re-branding the company as a large services integrator, capturing new business and assisting with acquisitions. During his tenure the company grew from a $90 million federal contractor to a $450 million service integrator providing military base operations, transportation, logistics and C4ISR services.

As Director of Business Development at Wackenhut Services, Inc. (now Constellis), he established their base operations and support business line, creating the strategy to enter the market and growing revenue from zero sales to $300 million in total revenue. While working to establish the business line he also provided operations management support. He held a Class C unlimited contractors’ license in the State of California and was the company’s qualifying construction agent.

Mr. Russo is both an avid student of his profession and teacher, presenting innovative seminars and workshops at both the local and national level of the Association of Proposal Manage Professionals (APMP) conferences.