Michael Petrucelli

Michael J. Petrucelli is the Founder and Chairman of Clearpath Immigration, and was deputy director, and later acting director, of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2003 to 2005.[1][2]

Career

Between 2005 and 2008, Petrucelli was president of government affairs at GridPoint.[1] He was the senior vice president for operations and chief of staff at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, from November 2002 to March 2003.[3]

Before joining Ex-Im Bank in June 2001,[4] Petrucelli worked on economic and business issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in both the Office of Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth and the FCC's International Bureau.[5] He was also executive director of the U.S.-Thailand Business Council, encouraging trade between the two countries. Prior to that he was director for Thailand, Burma and financial services at the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council, promoting U.S.-Asia trade relations.

As a U.S. State Department Foreign Service officer from 1991 to 1996, Petrucelli was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, the Bureau of Intelligence & Research in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Consulate General, Netherlands Antilles.

Petrucelli is an immigration advisor to Blueseed, a company that plans to create a startup community off the California coast in international waters, close to Silicon Valley while working around what they claim are onerous difficulties for startup entrepreneurs to get visas to work in the United States.[6]

Petrucelli holds a master's degree in business administration from Goizueta Business School, Emory University, with concentrations in leadership and international business. He also received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

References

  1. 1 2 Flook, Bill (27 May 2011). "Former bureaucrat Michael Petrucelli looks to take mystery — and paper — out of immigration processing".
  2. ↑ "Michael Petrucelli, Executive Chairman & President".
  3. ↑ "EX-IM BANK APPOINTS MICHAEL PETRUCELLI SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS AND CHIEF OF STAFF". November 8, 2002. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "MICHAEL PETRUCELLI APPOINTED EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIRMAN, EX-IM BANK". June 28, 2001. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "MICHAEL J. PETRUCELLI, EX-IM BANK SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TO BECOME HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL". March 18, 2003. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Advisors, Blueseed (immigration section)". Blueseed. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
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