Advisory Board Bio – Jay Galbraith

Jay Galbraith has the honor of serving as the president of BRIDG with its mission to create a semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, and workforce hub to serve America in Osceola County, Florida. He brings more than three decades of administrative leadership and government affairs experience serving Central Florida and the entire state in transformational initiatives to his role leading the organization.

Jay has been a partner of BRIDG since its inception more than a decade ago through his work with Valencia College. Jay leverages his strengths to position BRIDG and establish NeoCity as a national hub for semiconductor research, manufacturing, advanced packaging, and workforce attainment. As BRIDG leads programs and federal contract awards critical to national security and domestic self-sufficiency in semiconductor advanced packaging of microelectronic systems, his familiarity with BRIDG drives the vision for the future forward.

Prior to joining BRIDG, Jay served as vice president for public affairs at Valencia College. His background also includes corporate leadership roles at United Parks and Resorts and the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, Lees-McRae College in North Carolina, and the Pinellas Education Foundation, in addition to serving in key staff roles for two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Michael Bilirakis and Congressman Bill Grant.

Jay is a graduate of Indian River State College, where he earned his associate in arts degree, and Florida State University, where he earned a bachelor’s in political communication. He and his wife, Carrie, an attorney, have four children and reside in Orlando, Florida.