Restructured business and divested non- strategic components. Focused on developing high value added materials for Opto-electronics, Camera Module assembly,Smart cards and Hard Disk drives.• Built and led a team of 26 that developed and pioneered the use of UV and Visible light curable adhesives for assembly of Fiber Optic Transceivers. • Provided the enabling technology required to boost productivity and reduce assembly costs that eliminated the barriers to entry for Fiber Optic components in communication networks. • Developed a highly successful Opto-Electronic Materials business based on enabling technology that grew 25 %+ for seven consecutive years, with greater than 85% gross margin and achieving annual sales in excess of $18M per year. • Expanded the Opto-electronic Materials Business by capturing a dominant supplier position for CMOS Image Sensors and Compact Camera Modules for cell phones, adding another $14M in high margin sales.• Established a dominant supplier position for assembly of Hard Disk Drive Read/Write Heads. - Developed material sets and utilized UV technology to boost productivity and lower total cost of ownership for all of the Major Disk Drive manufacturers. - Grew business in excess of $10M

Henkel completed the acquisition of Ablestik in April 2008. The combined organizations create the world's leading supplier of adhesives, encapsulants, underfills for the Semiconductor, Optoelectronics and Electronic assembly markets

Managed the Ablestik portfolio of materials for SpecialtyAdhesives Applications. Restuctured the Business focusing on Data Storage, Smart cards, Optoelectronics, Thermal management for Micro-Processor packaging.• Led team that developed $28M of Film Adhesive business over a three year period of time. • Captured 100% of the largest chip manufacturer’s material requirements for thermal management of their microprocessor using a combination of new product development and global technical support. Led team that developed specialty die attach materials for digital light processing applications - HDTV

On behalf of Zeneca I sold the Luxtrak, Photocurable Adhesives Business to Ablestik. I joined Ablestik to manage their Optoelectronic Materials Business.Adhesives, Encapsulants, Underfills for the Fiber Optic, Optoelectronic, Photonic, Semiconductor and Electronic Assembly Markets.

Zeneca was formed from ICI Specialty Chemicals, Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals.At the time of transition I was involved in New Business development and Strategic Planning for Specialty Chemicals

Responsible for Analysis and Development of Business Plans for the various operating units within ICI Specialty Chemicals. Managed Strategic Acquisitions and Divestures

Business Manager ICI Electronic Photo Chemicals. Manufactured and supplied Photo Sensitizers for Semiconductor Photo Resist Companies.