Executive General Manager, Vice President R&D, Engineering & ProductionIndustrial ink jet, coding & marking, product identification, graphics & industrial digital colour printingCreative, customer focused with good commercial awareness and a proven track record of success in delivering innovative, winning quality products for international markets. Proficient in setting up manufacturing/production and supply chain, building world class R&D and manufacturing engineering facilities and teams. Demonstrated selfless global cross-functional leadership to achieve exceptional results for the companies I worked for. Experienced at successfully establishing, managing and directing cross-functional teams and activities in multiple locations around the world. Adept at leading and motivating technical multi-disciplined, cross-functional teams, project and functional managers in bringing multiple projects to fruition within extremely tight development schedule. This has been repeatedly demonstrated by 18 major new competitive and successful product introductions in the last 19 years at four different companies. Some of these products continue to yield earnings of several hundreds of millions of US dollars in yearly sales revenues (estimates of between USD800M to USD1.4B annual sales revenues in 2014). Creates Intellectual Capital too being inventor or co-inventor of in excess of 43 patent applications to date. The majority of these have been granted others pending. Also demonstrated by the management of the research, development and successful introduction into the market of breakthrough technologies and products. In the process managed teams that filed in excess of 155 patents to date at 5 different companies. Has an immense capacity to absorb and understand details, but also develops and proposes effective strategies to aid overall business progress and growth. Recruits, empowers and develop high–potential people to great effect. Diligent and committed.