Chuck Thelen Email & Phone Number

Fremont, Ca, Us

I lead and executed significant growth plans and negotiated exceptional state based incentive packages and land purchases to expand plants in NA and Europe. Gotion is growing with the industry and currently are the 7th largest Lion battery supplier. Our Green philosophy ensures efficient and safe energy storage and deployment on demand for automotive and industrial electrical power needs. Our team is a collaborative combination of R&D, applications engineering, sales, purchasing, marketing, logistics and project management professionals. This role has transitioned into acting as plant and General Manager building a 2350 employee manufacturing facility to supply Cathode materials to internal and external customers launching in January 2026.

Position utilizes 32 years of automotive experience, 3.5yrs of adjunct professor and 17yrs of athletics coaching. Am coaching and mentoring others to enable implementation of LEAN concepts for indirect areas as well as product engineering excellence within the Bosch Engineering Systems framework. This includes leading efforts in PE, DRBFM and FLOW based product release systems within Bosch.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Global leadership of PM team with locations in USA, Mexico, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, China, India and Thailand. Establish processes and tools used for project execution excellence world wide.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Mba, Operations Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering