George Yarusavage, CPIM, CTL, C.P.M., DLP
Principal
Fortress Consulting, LLC

George Yarusavage, now in his second career as a trainer, educator, and consultant, first acquired more than three decades of domestic and international supply chain experience.  His duties included hiring, training, and mentoring teams of supply chain professionals while managing purchasing, transportation, inventory, distribution, and logistics operations in multiple industries.  He has held management positions at M-real USA, Verizon Wireless, NBC Olympics (where he won an Emmy!), NBC Corporate, GE, GTE, and CFI.  

Currently, he is a Principal at Fortress Consulting, an Executive Consultant to the CATTAN Services Group, and an Instructor for the American Management Association.  His most interesting assignments have included pioneering a new Logistics Certification class at Union County College; projects for the New York City Office of Emergency Management; updating the AST&L/APICS Global Logistics Associate teaching materials; and a variety of public and in-house executive training engagements.  In recent years he has authored a number of published articles on risk management, supply chain management, transportation management, and professional development, plus book reviews for the AST&L/APICS Transportation Journal.

 George has been a frequent presenter at local, regional, and national meetings of APICS, CSCMP, and ISM, was the last Chairman of AST&L when it merged into APICS, and currently is a member of the National APICS Board of Directors.  He is also the Treasurer of ISM-7 Counties as well as the ISM NY/NJ Forum.  George earned his B.S. in Logistics from Penn State and his MBA from NYU and earned his CPM from APICS, CTL from AST&L, and C.P.M. from ISM.  In addition, he was recognized as a Distinguished Logistics Practitioner by AST&L.