Passionate Founder CEO building a diversified industrial company with a mission of revitalizing American manufacturing by helping global OEM's design and deliver engineered products that power, protect and propels our world. We create, buy and grow companies that design and deliver engineered products through a focused, platform approach.I am personally passionate about the following challenges:1. Hiring and inspiring the next generation manufacturing workforce;2. Investing in new industrial 'frontier' technologies;3. Building mission-driven companies; and4. Driving operating excellence with world-class service and profitability through Lean.For the past 50 years, our country has torn down factories and shipped jobs overseas. I believe that a thriving nation has a strong manufacturing sector - laying the industrial foundation to create incredible middle class jobs, to become a net exporter of goods and to usher in the next era of technology driven manufacturing.At P1 Ventures, we have reversed that shutdown trend by creating and building 3 new manufacturing companies over the last 15 years, in Schenectady. We are accelerating that growth with a vision to create 10 more companies, new factories and hundreds of jobs over the next 5 years.At P1, Manufacturing is more than a career, its our calling!