Fred DiMaggioFred Di Maggio has held senior positions in state executive and legislative branches of government, served as a trade association executive, worked for the U.S. Treasury Department, and has been a lobbyist for the soft drink, cable television and health care industries.
In March 2007, Mr. Di Maggio started Homeland Security Partners, LLC, a homeland security procurement consulting practice. The firm’s goal is to assist companies to enter the huge and emerging homeland security marketplace, directly, or by partnering with large system integrators. This arena is complex because the ever changing technologies, shifting priorities, and as well as the interaction with multiple levels of government. Clients are advised on how to best position themselves to be successful.
In May 2003, he was appointed by NYS Governor George E. Pataki as Director of Industry Development-Homeland Security for the state’s economic development agency, Empire State Development. This Governor’s initiative is targeted to assist NYS’s many qualified businesses to participate in the huge, emerging homeland security marketplace, estimated to be over $100 billion in 2006. Mr. Di Maggio was one of the architects of the innovative Homeland Security Vetting System, a framework by which state agencies can evaluate companies’ capabilities and connect them with procurement opportunities and corporate partners. He also serves on private and public homeland security advisory boards.
Previously, Mr. Di Maggio served seven years as Director of the Empire Zones Program, NYS’s major economic development incentive tool. While there, he was one of the founders of the Statewide Zone Capital Corporation, a for-profit organization that raised $30 million in private capital to invest in small businesses in economically distressed zone areas.
Before re-entering public service, Mr. Di Maggio was Executive Director of the statewide trade association representing the soft drink industry. He led the industry’s 10 year battle against former Governor Mario M. Cuomo’s aggressive efforts to win legislative approval to enable the state to recapture unclaimed beverage container deposits. At the time, Governor Cuomo was facing huge budget deficits and had presidential ambitions. The battle was never lost, saving the soft drink industry $650 million, which was used to implement the state’s costly “Bottle Law”.
Prior to this, he served as a senior policy advisor to three NYS Assembly Speakers, from both sides of the aisle.
Mr. Di Maggio was educated as an Economist and holds a Master of Arts in Political Economy from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs (State University of NY at Albany) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the State University of NY at Plattsburgh.
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