John CostelloCorporate Vice President, Government Affairs, Microchip Technology

John Costello earned a degree in business from Loyola University in Los Angeles in 1983 and Management Development Program UC Irvine in 2005. He has over 35 years’ experience in the aerospace and defense semiconductor market-place. 

Costello is in his 33rd year of employment at Microchip Technology, (Nasdaq: MCHP) a company offering a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace, and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs, Microcontrollers, Microprocessors and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world’s standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; custom design capabilities and services. Microchip is headquartered in Chandler, AZ with over 23,000 employees globally. 

Costello is Corporate Vice President of Government Affairs, where his responsibilities include developing and implementing legislation-related strategies, and government agencies, impacting mission-critical and commercially driven microelectronics, systems & subsystems. Costello has been instrumental in key National & Economic Security legislation and programs including The 2018 National Timing Resilience and Security Act, 2022 Chips and Science Act and NASA’s High Performance Space Computer. 

Costello has been featured on Fox Business & Bloomberg (Tech Impact Show) discussing mission-critical microelectronics and has published several articles & white papers regarding the semiconductor industry. John has served as a panelist and/or moderator multiple times for the Potomac Institute, National Defense Industrial Association and NASA. 

Prior to Microchip’s acquisition of Microsemi in 2018, Costello held several executive positions at Microsemi, including VP of High Reliability Global Sales from 2004-2014 and VP of Government Relations & Business Development from 2014-2019. While in his leadership roles in global sales and business development, Microsemi achieved substantial growth and met all corporate sales objectives and guidance. As a decade-long full member, John served two, two-year- terms on the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Board of Governors and represents Microchip on multiple AIA councils. He also served as an alternate board member for the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The premier advocacy group for the semiconductor industry. 

In 2017, Costello penned the memoir, Executive Hoodlum, Negotiating on The Corner of Main and Mean. Prior to the completion of the book, Costello signed a life rights deal with independent award-winning producer Ehud Bleiberg for a proposed television series based on his book.