C-level / CEO company builder with history of growing manufacturing companies serving blue-chip aerospace, medical, military and energy, clients across US, Europe, and APAC. Strong P&L and business development success, outpacing competition in severe downturns and growth markets through market-leading product quality, on-time delivery, customer service, and EBITDA.Private equity expert with over 30 years of successful transactions with NO FAILED DEALS or legal battles during all business climates, including dot.com bust, 9/11, 2008 recession and the Covid crisis. Led multiple large acquisitions and divestitures, negotiated over $2B in complex long-term, global contracts. • Growth: Built Advanced Precision Products into competition-beating, precision medical manufacturing segment leader, then negotiated sale to private equity firm, achieving between 300% and 400% for each lender with 100% return of capital.• M&A / Sales: Negotiated and closed sale of Advanced Precision Products to Precision Engineered Products; merged Bumstead Manufacturing and Hansen Machine into Primus Auburn while maintaining 99% on-time delivery and quality metrics in conjunction with industry leading EBITDA and net profits.• Turnarounds: Led critical turnarounds at multiple organizations as board member and CEO; drove ~27% increase in EBITDA, delivered 5Xs growth in long-term sales pipeline, and drove major productivity and efficiency increases.• Leadership: Maintained workforce engagement to optimize productivity by effectively "reading" employee values and creating cultures of clear communication, accountability, and support with incentives aligned to employee needs. • Productivity: Transformed productivity with performance increase from 113K per employee to 220K per employee output, boosting EBITDA ~27%.• Compliance: Implemented aggressive plan to fully resolve all legal and environmental complaints pending upon arrival, training all staff to meet strict, current compliance requirements.