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Dr. Robert Brescia serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saint Joseph Academy in Texas. He previously served Fortune 500 organizations, primarily within the automotive sector. His most recent assignment was Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Transplace, Inc., Texas. Dr. Brescia also served Volkswagen Group of America as its Chief Logistics Officer. Before VW, he spent five years as Vice President for Logistics at Michelin North America, Bob also previously served as Vice President for Supply Chain Planning with a Detroit-based, global automotive business unit of Exel Logistics. Dr. Brescia has 27 years of public service as an officer in the United States Army with leadership experience in global logistics. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the Command & General Staff College, as well as many other military schools. His qualifications and awards include the U.S. Army Ranger Tab, Airborne qualification, the Department of the Army Staff Identification Badge, two citations of the Legion of Merit, four awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, the Southwest Asia Service Medal, the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal, and the Silver Rose. He received a B.A. in Government from Norwich University, Vermont in 1977. He holds two Master's Degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in International Relations and an M. S. in Computer Information Systems. He participated in the George and Carol Olmsted Foundation Scholarship program in 1984, attending the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and the University of Strasbourg, France. He earned a Diplôme d' Etudes Approfondies from the University of Strasbourg and a Diplôme de L'Institut, European Institute of Advanced Studies, Strasbourg. Dr. Brescia graduated with distinction from the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program with George Washington University. Dr. Brescia is fluent in French. He is a co-author of RFID for Dummies, a well-known guide on Radio Frequency Identification technology. Dr. Brescia has also written numerous articles and delivered presentations on operational and organizational leadership. His personal hobbies include boating, fishing and reading, especially when the fish aren't biting. . |
