Brian Westbrook Email & Phone Number

Brian Westbrook is a Global Segment Leader, SW Solutions - Commercial, SMB and Consumer | Cloud and Software Group at Lenovo. He possess expertise in product design, product development, design thinking, design for manufacturing, management and 52 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Brian and I worked on productizing and delivering payments solutions to retail clients as part of a Toshiba Global Commerce offering. We worked as a team to address the solution from two perspectives, mine from a strategy and Brian from product management. We defined the right market segments to pursue and the right offerings for those segments. Brian had mastered his understanding of the very complex financial payments market in a very short period of time and became the go to person in the organization for anything payments. Brian has excellent presentation skills, which was mandatory in explaining very complex subject matters in a way that was easy to understand. His ability to work across teams, clearly present ideas and learn new subject matter quickly makes Brian a huge asset.", "As Sr. Director of Global Brand and Product Marketing for what was (essentially) a $1B startup within the Toshiba Corporation, I had the pleasure of managing Brian for two years after hiring him as a key member of Toshiba’s global product marketing team. In a job that has a typical learning curve of at least 12 months, he immediately (first week on the job) made an impact by successfully ushering a struggling hardware project through our executive review board, gaining funding support and approval to move forward. He quickly took command of the hardware and software solution areas he was responsible for, establishing himself as their go-to thought leader, and extending broader thought leadership across other functional and solution areas of the business. Brian brought a new and refreshing perspective to his role, leveraging his design background and recent MBA to challenge the way our business thought about and approached key solution areas. His strategic and business-focused mindset enabled Toshiba to approach and overcome existing challenges in a way that was new to our business. Brian was particularly effective in working across organizational lines to drive results – successfully navigating a complicated corporate culture and rallying other functional areas around a new solution or strategic direction with relative ease. His ability to quickly distill complex ideas into the simplest elements was critical in gaining support across the organization and focusing feuding teams to overcome challenges in a largely silo’ed environment. It seemed Brian was never without a whiteboard pen – he was able to quickly capture the team’s ideas and simplify concepts visually in a way that brought people together and made even the toughest business problems easier to overcome. Brian is an excellent communicator and was absolutely at home in front of an audience. I enjoyed watching the excitement he could create by jumping in front of a group of people, pitching an idea or telling a story on-the-fly. Brian was excellent at taking command of meetings that had diverse and sometimes contentious constituents and focusing the team to quickly get to the crux of a problem before it spiraled out of control. Brian’s attitude that “anything is possible” along with his strong work ethic would make him a valuable asset to any product team, but where he’ll shine is as a key business leader managing teams and driving business direction. Brian’s strategic mindset and business acumen are complemented by excellent leadership qualities, ensuring success in almost any senior level role that requires driving real change and achieving profitable long-term success. His problem-solving capability, technical insights and collaborative ability made him an invaluable asset to our product management team, but it’s his business perspectives, organizational awareness and ability to get things done that will drive his success in future leadership and management roles.", and "Three words come to mind when I think of Brian Westbrook; Talent, Passion, and Vision. Brian is a talented illustrator and would begin his design process with pencil and paper. Allowing for creativity and design flow to happen quickly and without the restraints of a computer program. As his designed matured he quickly translated into electronic formats. He looked beyond the project to the market place drawing on successful designs not limited to tools bringing fresh new styling to his projects. Brian brings passion to his work. Never satisfied always driving to deliver the very best design. Pushing and stretching the limits to impact the market. Brian brings vision to his work through his designs. I worked closely with Brian to develop a new series of tool storage bags. Simple as the category seems, Brian researched materials, textures, LED technology and storage solutions from other categories which were so innovative we were awarded a patent on the design."

Listed skills include Product Design, Product Development, Design Thinking, Design For Manufacturing, and 53 others.