FANUC America Appoints New President and CEO
Mike Cicco is responsible for all of the company’s operations in North and South America.
Posted: July 22, 2016
“I am excited and honored to take on this role, and I look forward to working with Rick and our talented senior leadership team to achieve our future growth objectives.”
FANUC America Corporation (Rochester Hills, MI), a leading supplier of CNC, robotic and factory automation technologies, recently announced Mike Cicco has been named their president and chief executive officer. He has responsibility for all of their operations in North and South America. In addition, Rick Schneider has been named chairman of FANUC America and will continue in his role as a board member of parent company, FANUC Corporation.
“I am excited and honored to take on this role, and I look forward to working with Rick and our talented senior leadership team to achieve our future growth objectives,” stated Cicco, who joined the company in 1999 and has held a variety of management positions over the years, including software/controls manager and district sales manager at their Southern California facility.
In 2005, Cicco transferred to the company headquarters in Rochester Hills to take on the role of national account manager of the company’s Authorized System Integrator sales group. As his career progressed, he was named the general manager of several robot division groups, including material handling engineering, authorized system integrator sales, and domestic automotive/Michigan regional sales. In 2015, he was promoted to vice president of North and South American sales and execution. In April 2016, he was named president and chief operating officer.
Before joining the company, Cicco served as lead automation engineer in Northrop Grumman’s Automation and Information Systems group. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA).
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