Massimo Russo
Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow
Boston
Massimo Russo is a core member of the Technology Advantage practice at The Boston Consulting Group, and a member of the firm’s Industrial Goods; Operations; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; and Strategy practices. He became a BCG Fellow in 2017. As a Fellow, Massimo is using his experience counseling clients on technology to develop a perspective of the Internet of Things and its impact on business.
Massimo helps clients build competitive advantage through technology, with a focus on industrial clients. Since joining BCG in 2001, he has advised clients across a number of sectors, including automotive, engineered products, and technology. He played a lead role in supporting the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in evaluating the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler.
Before joining BCG, Massimo worked at GE Aircraft Engines, leading its Destroy-Your-Business.com group. He started his career as a product development engineer for Product Genesis.
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B2B companies need a plan for IoT and other enterprise data privacy.
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Data and data sharing are at forefront of the response to the novel coronavirus.
What the story of one woman's cancer cells, which have fueled 70 years of medical R&D, portends for data collected from the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Things presents a new opportunity for value creation—and a risk for those who ignore it.
