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Scottsdale, AZ, US

Veblen Directors Programme (VDP) is a community of executives, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs with a wealth of knowledge and connections in areas such as fund raising, financial oversight, and corporate governance.

Advise private equity clients in investment opportunities in the Life Sciences space.

Cambridge, MA, US

Conduct interviews for students applying for admissions to MITs undergraduate degree programs.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Successfully led a 2-year project to justify, design, build, and commission a state-of-the-art GMP protein manufacturing facility for cell therapy and regenerative medicine applications. The facility is now in full operation. https://www.bio-techne.com/gmp-manufacturing-facility

San Jose, CA, US

As the Vice President Operations for ProteinSimple, the Protein Platforms division of Bio-Techne, I led the manufacturing, supply chain, and field service organizations for this rapidly growing and highly innovative life science company. Successfully supported revenue growth from $90M to over $200M per year.

Roseville, CA, US

As part of DCA Partners, DCA Advisors delivers strategy implementation and general operations consulting services to small and mid-size firms in the Northern California region. Drove strategy development and deployment at firms invested in by the Private Equity funds of DCA Partners.

Waltham, MA, US

Held full end-to-end P&L responsibility for a $400M business which designs, manufactures, and services mass spectrometry instruments and applications software used in life science and industrial quality control applications.

Waltham, MA, US

• COO for a $1.5B division which designs, manufactures, and services precision measurement equipment and applications software used in pharmaceutical, Life Science Research, and industrial quality control applications.
• Led the integration into Thermo Fisher of the Product Marketing and R&D organizations of 3 businesses from the acquisition of a $400M manufacturer of liquid chromatography equipment and application software.

Waltham, MA, US

Hired from the outside to develop an overall operations strategy, dramatically improve inventory turns, and ramp-up productivity improvements through plant consolidation and low-cost region manufacturing and sourcing. Managed 12 manufacturing plants and a global sourcing organization in North America, Europe, and APAC which supported more than $1B in.

US

Promoted for third time in 3 years to President of the most strategic business in the Division. This was a turnaround situation, as customer demand had just increased by 80% while product yields had just been cut in half due to technical and operational issues. Held full P&L responsibility for a $120M business growing at 30% per year.

US

• Promoted to Vice President with responsibility to meet revenue, profitability, and customer satisfaction objectives for a $165M portfolio of businesses with declining growth due to a poor record of design wins.
• The Military / Aerospace product line was named "Product Line of the Year" for 2004 in recognition of 16% revenue growth. Received PerkinElmer Chairman's Award.

US

Hired from the outside to drive cash flow, quality, and productivity improvements within the 7 plant North American operations of a $350M manufacturer of optically-based electronic products used in the life science, medical equipment, aerospace, industrial, and consumer applications.

Knoxville, TN, US

• Managed worldwide operations of a high-growth $240M manufacturer of computer touch-screens, touch-monitors and software with operations in California, New York, Japan, Belgium, and France.
• Conducted due diligence for the purchase of 6 manufacturers of related computer peripheral equipment. Managed the successful integration of 3 acquisitions.* Held previous roles as management consultant for Arthur D..

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