Bob Bates Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Founded Katelan Consulting to help clients to create successful products and business by applying my experience to:
• Be first to market
• Improve time to market
• Reduce investment costs by improving efficiency and effectiveness
• Improve customer satisfaction by understanding the customer’s true needs

• General Manager, Connected Generations Venture (funded by Philips Lifestyle Incubator). Responsible for founding and building the venture through Pre-seed and Seed phase.
• Performed Market Research and proposition validation
• Recruited the Venture Team
• Identified, selected and managed suppliers
• Developed Business Plan and Strategy
• Pitched proposition to investors

• Senior Programme Manager for Philips Applied Technologies’ (Apptech’s) Global End-to-End Systems Program. Responsible for innovative End-to-End Systems developed in Apptech’s laboratories in Redhill in the UK, Leuven.
• Established international Program Business Team
• Defined Business Plan and Strategy and Managed Project portfolio

• General Manager of Philips Applied Technologies Redhill (Apptech-R) (formally known as APG, ASAL-R and PDSL-R) reporting to the Apptech General Manager in Eindhoven. Responsible for the Development of “First of a kind”.
• Grew turnover by 52% from 1999 to 2002 while achieving target profit every year.
• Re-organised the department from a Group structure into a matrix with Project Management, Resource Management and Business Programme Management and recruited new staff to fill key positions.
• Developed a Vision, Mission and Strategy, gained approval from Senior Management and implemented.
• Achieved CMM level 2 accreditation and ISO9001:2000 registration.
• Introduced Business Balanced Scorecard to measure performance against objectives.

General Manager of PCC’s Cambridge facility reporting to the Line of Business Executive Vice President in the USA. Responsible for Research & Development and New Product Introduction for the Company’s range of wide area radio pagers. In addition responsible for the site and support functions including IT and QA. There were 200 staff on this site. The.

• Joined PCC on 1st October 1996 as Engineering Manager reporting as a member of the Paging Senior Management Team to the Paging Vice President. Responsible for the Research and Development of radio pagers. The.
• Introduced new development procedures for fast track development into high volume production.
• Introduced “Heavyweight” Project Management and concurrent engineering methodologies in order to improve significantly the effectiveness and efficiency of the new product development process with other departments.
• Reduced new product development times by 50% to less than 12 months with significant reduction in costs and improvements in quality and “on-time” performance.
• Improved factory “first time pass rate” from 70% to >97%.
• New products sold to major customers, including British Telecom, Vodafone and PageMart.

Appointed as Managing Director of the newly formed Unicam Chromatography business following the acquisition of ATI by Thermo Instruments on 1st December 1995. Responsible for the performance of the Chromatography business, which included Marketing, Development, Production and Financial Control. The business marketed, produced and sold customised and.

• Manager of the Development Department reporting to the Technical Director. Responsible for the research and development of the company's range of Analytical Instruments including Atomic Absorption, Inductively Coupled.
• Introduced new development procedures, Project Management and concurrent engineering methodologies into the Company in order to improve significantly the effectiveness and efficiency of the new product development.
• Achieved substantial reductions in development lead times (factor of 3) and costs.
• Implemented Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) techniques in conjunction with suppliers resulting in significant improvements in product reliability and.
• Product parts counts were more than halved for each new product generation and, together with a move to substantial outsourcing of components, this resulted in a dramatic reduction in product lead times and build times.
• Responsible for the introduction of new technologies into the company. This involved extensive liaison and collaboration with universities and other companies in the UK and abroad.

• Appointed Group Leader of the Microwave Group at Philips Research Laboratories with a staff of 23 mainly graduates and PhDs. The work of the group included research into microwave systems, i.e. Electronic Warfare.
• Coordinated a successful bid for funding under the EC DRIVE programme for a research project into a microwave identification system for road vehicles. This involved seeking collaborative partners throughout Europe.
• External Examiner for Newcastle Polytechnic's MSc and Postgraduate Diploma courses in Microwave and RF Engineering from 1986 to 1988.
• Member of IEE Professional Group E12 (Microwave Devices and Techniques).

• 1978-1985. Project leader responsible for research into millimetre-wave techniques.
• Researched new techniques for transmission lines, components and subassemblies for use in the range 30 to 140 GHz.
• Developed mixers, filters, oscillators and couplers, etc. using the E-plane transmission line technique. This project evolved into research into mm-wave communication systems at 29 and 60 GHz, low cost mm-wave radar.

Phd, Electronics

Bsc, Electronics, First Class Honours