A highly accomplished business leader and marketing executive with wide-ranging international experience in emerging and well established businesses. Strong technical skills and business acumen with a proven ability to drive business results. Experienced cross-functional team lead with demonstrated coaching and talent development ability.Excerpts from psychological assessment conducted by Nordi, Wilson Associates . Mr. Gaughan's overall intellectual capacity falls in the upper levels of the very superior range, placing him in the top one percent of the general population. He is strong in both verbal reasoning and language skill areas as well as quantitative and nonverbal reasoning skills. Given his capacity, he deals quite effectively with complex and involved issues and problems. In general, he uses his abilities in a strongly analytical, alert, and pragmatic fashion. He is broad-brushed and strategic in the way he looks at issues and problems, and he is comfortable dealing with ambiguity and intangibles. He has an ability to understand complex problems and to come up with timely solutions and useful plans and initiatives. He shows a good deal of confidence in his reasoning skills and is not afraid to jump in, to get involved, and to come up to speed rapidly. He has a high degree of intellectual curiosity and is also creative and forward-looking the way he uses his abilities.”“Interpersonally, in a number of respects, he is a strong and impressive person. He is very intelligent and quite articulate. He can present his ideas well and talk effectively at both a strategic as well as a tactical and implementation level. He can grasp the business issues before him well and present these to others convincingly and successfully. He is direct and assertive, and he is able to project himself well. He can come across with confidence and also with credibility and persuasiveness.”Specialties: · Strategic Planning · Product Launch/Management· Technology Management