Senior Management

Michael A. Petosa

Senior Vice President of Information Technology

Michael A. Petosa is Senior Vice President of Information Technology at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). He provides leadership for the development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment at ANSI. He is responsible for a broad range of strategic technology issues, IT governance and policy, resources and budget, delivery of IT services and infrastructure, information security, enterprise and cloud solutions, and end-user support.

Mr. Petosa joined ANSI in 2004 as director of information technology, bringing with him 23 years of experience in systems design, engineering, and business management, and in 2008 he was named vice president of information technology. Prior to his arrival at ANSI, Mr. Petosa was chief technical officer at Pencom Systems, Inc., and director of management information systems at Career Blazers. Earlier in his career, he was an electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories where he designed microprocessor based communication terminals, a systems engineer at AT&T Information Systems where he designed large scale communication systems for commercial use, and a senior partner and vice president of a privately held wholesale distribution firm in New York City. He is an active member of the Information Technology Strategy Advisory Group (ITSAG), an advisory group to the ISO council, and is an active participant in the "ISO Open Source software development framework" (ISOurce) representing the United States. Mr. Petosa also sits on the Advisory Board of the DeMatteis School of Engineering & Applied Science at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, and he is a member of the Martinsburg College IT Advisory Council in Martinsburg, WV.

Mr. Petosa holds both a bachelor of science and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York.