Atman Buch Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, Us

San Clemente, Ca, Us

Advising early-stage and growth-stage hardware technology businesses and manufacturing services companies, providing strategic leadership in operations, supply chain, product development, and new business development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hk

-- VP Global Business Development & Account Management -- -- General Manager, San Francisco Design Lab / Accelerator -- Cosmo (www.cosmo.io), a market-leading manufacturer of engineered soft-goods, spanning consumer electronics to luxury sectors. Comprehensive manufacturing solution provider, with a platform covering innovation, design, engineering/development, manufacturing, and supply chain services.20 years of designing, innovating, and manufacturing for the best brands in the world. Cosmo pioneered the engineered soft-goods category, applying the automation, precision, and repeatability of the consumer electronics world to soft-goods

Austin, Texas, Us

Flex (www.flex.com), is a $26B Electronic Manufacturing Services company, that designs, builds and delivers products globally across industries (Consumer, Industrial, Automotive, Healthcare). The ICE (Innovative, Connected & Emerging technologies) team is an elite group that specializes in enabling and accelerating the entire Product Development and Industrialization cycle for emerging businesses (start-ups and Fortune 500+ companies looking to innovate outside their core products), with an end goal of driving world-class production and supply chain execution, at scale.Responsible for entire cycle of new Business Development, through Productization, to Account Management, for strategic growth ICE customers, specifically focused on emerging businesses and Fortune 500 companies, looking to grow outside of their core products. Partner with C-level leadership at these customers to win and drive the business

Boston, Ma, Us

GE’s premier Executive leadership accelerator for Commercial, Technical, & Operations talent, focused on developing future C-Suite business leaders through high-impact, broad, functional (operational and strategy) roles. One of ~130 select GE participants globally.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Supply Chain leadership for Home Laundry product line- Managed team of Purchasing Program Managers and Global Commodity Managers, with a total spend of $150M across mechanical and electrical commodities. - Measured on total cost-out/productivity, delivery, cash generation, and supply-chain risk management for the product line, along with, supplier transition/execution for multiple new product launches

Louisville, Ky, Us

Responsible for Sales/Merchandising with Independent and National appliance retailers, covering Oregon and Washington regions - Delivered $50MM in top-line sales revenue, through growth with existing accounts and signing new dealers - Worked with Independent dealers to develop local advertising strategies and floor assortment/growth

Louisville, Ky, Us

Operations Manager for Final Assembly and Vacuum Panel/Foam manufacturing operations... Large scale assembly operation, producing over 1000+ Refrigerators per day. - Supported start-up of new Bottom Freezer Refrigerator Manufacturing Plant in Louisville, KY - Day-day operational leadership for 120+ hourly union employees in Final Assembly and Pack operations - Led execution and start-up of Vacuum Panel and Foam process/equipment.... owned and drove improvements and initiatives in the metrics of safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

Louisville, Ky, Us

P&L leadership for GE's Top Load Laundry businessCross-functional leadership of operations, technology, sourcing and integration with marketing/sales to drive product line performance. systems. -- Delivered on key business financial metrics, and managed the levers that impact them: Sales, Contribution Margin, Operating Margin, Product Cost, Pricing, Mix and elements of Base Cost, including new product and cost out program investment -- Developed and executed new product introductions to drive sustainable market share growth and factory utilization/productivity. -- Developed and executed multi-generation product plan/strategy to grow business -- Drove high consumer satisfaction through understanding of NPS, Cost of Quality and Consumers Union priorities.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Led initiative to reduce the overall Cost of Quality (COQ) by 50%. The cost of quality includes all tangible warranty expenses, distribution damage costs, and intangible consumer implications (net promoter score). - Implemented Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project (process) which takes key consumer issues and correlates them to product design, manufacturing, and supplier process inputs - Executed $2MM of damage reduction projects throughout the Appliance distribution network - Chaired on change implementation board, to drive integration between product quality, new product development, and cost-out changes

Louisville, Ky, Us

- Led global team of 9 project managers to achieve $20MM product cost take-out goal in '09- Controlled and orchestrated budget of $9MM+ annually to yield best payback of projects to business- Managed weekly reporting of key projects and product-line financials to Vice Presidents and Senior General Managers

Louisville, Ky, Us

- Responsible for initiating, planning, and executing ‘product cost take-out’ projects through functional design changes, feature/appearance changes, and supplier moves - Delivered $10MM+ in bottom line savings through multiple cost-out projects from ’06-’08, with a budget of $4MM - Led Product-Line strategy for stainless steel, with a cross-functional team including Product Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and Sourcing, to drive project deliverables

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science (M.S.), Strategic Finance