Mr. Salo serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement.  He is responsible for investigative, compliance, and outreach activities directed primarily at enforcing national security and foreign policy objectives focused on sensitive exports to hostile entities, terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism, and the prohibited foreign boycotts.  He oversees an elite cadre of Special Agents and support personnel located at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, nine domestic field offices, and at U.S. Embassies in the United Arab Emirates, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, and Russia.

Prior to his assignment as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mr. Salo served as an Assistant Director for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board with oversight of contracts, grants, loans, and entitlements funded by the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  He coordinated and conducted inquiries into fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement of Recovery funds on a national level.

Mr. Salo retired from the United States Army as a Military Police Colonel after 27 years of experience in leading successful law enforcement and criminal investigative organizations and operations both domestically and internationally.  His military career culminated as the Executive Officer to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, the Pentagon.  In that capacity, he coordinated and synchronized daily operations for an agency with more than 74,000 personnel and an operating budget of $15 billion supporting 181 Army installations worldwide.

Mr. Salo served as a senior leader in the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command where he led a criminal investigative organization with world-wide responsibility for: all extremely sensitive and classified investigations and matters of interest to the senior Army leadership; all of the Army’s major procurement fraud investigations relating to major acquisitions and intellectual property theft; and the investigation of cybercrime and intrusions into the Army’s computer network around the world.  In addition to leading four major subordinate units comprised of Special Agents and support personnel in 29 locations across the United States and areas overseas, he also supervised executive protective services to ensure the safety of the Department of Defense and Department of the Army senior leadership and combatant commanders overseas.  In this role, he oversaw deployments of criminal investigative personnel to 51 countries, to include hostile fire zones, around the world.

He holds a Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice (Summa Cum Laude) from Troy State University, a Masters in Political Science from Auburn University at Montgomery, and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Air War College.  Mr. Salo is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy.