Palermo's Pizza

Introducing our third member of our Fall 2024 Cohort Faculty – Giacomo Fallucca, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Palermo's Pizza. A lifelong resident of Milwaukee, Giacomo grew up in the pizza business starting with the family restaurant, Palermo Villa on Milwaukee’s East side, at age 15. He later joined the frozen pizza business in 1979 when he turned 18. He learned the pizza business in his immigrant parent’s restaurant on Milwaukee’s East side and joined the family’s frozen pizza business in 1979 when he turned 18. From humble beginnings delivering pizzas to just a few stores, Palermo’s now makes nearly 300 million pizzas annually at two production facilities located in Milwaukee and Jefferson, Wisconsin and employs over 1,200 people. We are thrilled to have Giacomo as part of our Fall 2024 Cohort faculty. More faculty announcements to come – stay tuned! To learn more about our six-week leadership course and to gain early bird access, click below. https://forward48.com/ #wisconsin #professionaldevelopment #leadership #wisconsinleaders

Let's celebrate National Manufacturing Month with a town hall. Milwaukee PBS and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are teaming up to present The Future of Manufacturing Town Hall and job fair on Thursday, Oct. 3 in Milwaukee Area Technical College's Cooley Auditorium. This free and open to the public event will focus on the importance of attracting and training the workforce as the industry trends towards high tech and automation. The job fair runs from 3 to 4:15 p.m. and the town hall will begin at 4:30 and go until 5:30. Panelists include Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry CEO Sachin Shivaram, former Rockwell Automation Quality Team Lead and Build Sessions CLE founder Aaliyah Brown, MEM, Sussex IM CEO Megan Tzanoukakis, CPA, CSCP,?International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers representative Kevin Murch, and MATC instructor Barney Bannon. The town hall will also feature pre-recorded interviews with several high-profile executives, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Husco CEO Austin Ramirez, Sentry Equipment CEO Brian Baker, GenMet Corp. owner Mary Isbister and Palermo's Pizza CEO Giacomo Fallucca. The conversation will be moderated by Milwaukee PBS host Portia Young and recorded for a broadcast on Milwaukee PBS later in October. The job fair will take place directly before the town hall in the hallway outside the auditorium. It will run from 3 to 4:15 p.m. and will feature local businesses that will be on hand to talk about job openings, provide resources and showcase their manufacturing work. Also a great opportunity for networking. (Shout out to the Milwaukee Area Technical College CareerHub for its help in putting that together.) Cooley Auditorium is located in the main building of the MATC Downtown campus, located at 1015 N. 6th?Street in Milwaukee. Registration is encouraged but not required. To register for the event or to learn more, visit?milwaukeepbs.org/events. Hope to see you there.

We're #PizzaProud to be celebrating 60 years of delivering a great pizza experience, but we're not done yet! Check out this interview with Manufacturing Today to hear more from our Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Nick Fallucca!