Mike Smiszek brings more than forty years of diverse trade compliance experience to BCG. He began his career with a major U.S. customs brokerage firm, where he gained experience in practically every aspect of the customs regulations, and where, in anticipation of the implementation of the HTSUS in 1989, Mike led a team tasked with transitioning the firm’s clients’ classification records from the TSUS to the HTSUS. He then moved on to oversee import, export, and anticorruption compliance at several global manufacturers in the defense, telecom, energy, and semiconductor industries. For example, at Lucent Technologies he oversaw export compliance, which included extensive encryption-related issues, for Lucent’s Optical Networking Group (which at the time included Bell Labs).