Mr. Galasso is an agriculturalist responsible for U.S. Government plant health policy relating to international trade in grain, including cereals, pulses and oilseeds, since 2008.  He also represents U.S. interests to the North American Plant Protection Organization and the International Plant Protection Convention (FAO).  His duties focus on promoting safe trade in grains through extensive collaboration with industry, researchers, foreign government agencies, and international plant protection organizations. 

He previously served as the Regional Vice President, Europe and North Africa for the trade association US Wheat Associates (USW), posted in The Hague, Netherlands from 2004-08.  He also served as the USW Regional Director in North Africa, based in Casablanca, Morocco from 1995-2004, and Assistant Regional Director for South America, based in Santiago, Chile from 1991-1995.  Prior to USW, Mr. Galasso was an agricultural economist with the Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA in Washington, DC from 1988-1991, and worked as a Peace Corps agricultural economist in the Marketing and Credit Division of the Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture, based in Kingston from1985-87.

Mr. Galasso has a B.A. degree in Anthropology and Geology from the University of Delaware and holds a Master's degree from Michigan State University in Agricultural Economics. At UD he undertook research correlating LandSat digital imaging with prehistoric artifact distribution in the Murderkill, Mispillion and St. Jones watersheds of Delaware. 

Alex is the Lead Researcher for Smart Home Experiences at Intel Corporation. Her research directs innovation and strategic decisions for multiple teams across Intel working on platforms and technologies related to domestic computing, by understanding user contexts, practices, values, desires and needs. Alex defines transformational experiences in domestic spaces including homes and private passenger cars, and across Intel device categories from desktop computers to gateways to set top boxes and Internet of Things platforms and devices. She’s roadtripped in an RV for a week to understand the challenges of mobile domesticity, lugged around a shower curtain and stepstool to unpack the contents of cars from Wuhan to Sao Paulo to Frankfurt to Penang, watched people watch TV in 15 countries, and explored laundry rooms in Swedish apartment buildings and Indonesian student housing. She excels at making sense of the mundane, everyday rhythms of domestic life, and identifying areas for innovation and disruption in nascent markets. Her research spans the development of experiences from concept design through to product definition and assessment, within Intel and in collaboration with customers. Alex completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Brown University and her BA in Anthropology & History at the University of Delaware.