Consulting service to scale product, technology, business and innovation strategies to deliver on growth plansWorking with businesses in the product and manufacturing space to set up strategic choicepoints in technology investments: • technology investments• intellectual property strategy• product development• quality assurance• supply chain and manufacturing• sales/go to market strategy• marketing communication• product support and product adoption services. Example customer: Tecnica 3DWorking with investors to develop investment thesis, to build a funnel of potential investments, and to perform due diligence on business and innovation plans.Example customer: American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation

Board member and strategic advisor to scale the organization and product. Set up strategic choicepoints in customer centric product and technology investments, intellectual property management, product development processes, quality assurance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales/go to market, marketing communication, product support and product adoption services.

Identify & drive organic and inorganic program solutions to scale success in Digital Manufacturing.• Eco-System Software Roadmap: Drove Proof of Concept of digital manufacturing advanced analytics/ML/AI process control software disruptions to validate the value of open process monitoring & control software, commercialized in Fall 2023. Managed 3 architects who led 10 offshore software developers. Maintained 1.6M$ budget to within 1%.• Sales, Story Telling & Business Development: Delivered process control and supply chain marketing content to train HP Sales teams on B2B manufacturing sales and establish HP as a thought leader resulting in ~80% unit market share• Strategic Sales Account Customer Success: Delivered part demand revenue training resulting in significant new revenue growth for major part service provider accounts in the U.S., Europe and Japan. • Roadmap strategy, customer insights, market and industry analysis: Led the analysis of customer pain points, along with market, industry and technical trends to set the strategy for the internal and external investment roadmaps.• Strategic Partnerships and Investment: Identified strategic solutions partner and investment targets, performed due diligence, and negotiated commercial agreements. Selected and guided due diligence in HP’s later stage investments in Velo3D and Voxel8 Labs, successfully exiting in both cases. • New B2B Business Model & Professional Services: Developed concepts to drive awareness, adoption, and demand, and effectively championed HP’s entry into end-to-end Digital Manufacturing and Professional Service Business Models.• Digital Supply Chain: Led hybrid analog-digital supply chain incubations, demonstrating agile & cost-effective value. Co-authored Business models and supply chain strategy for digital manufacturing, Chapter 10 in ISBN: 978-0-443-13812-6.

Chief Strategist: Develop and evangelize HP’s play in 3D Printing to the successful founding of the HP 3D Print Business• Co-Founder of HP 3D Business, Co-Inventor of Multi Jet Fusion: Led an innovation tiger team to invent HP’s Multi Jet Fusion Technology, spending less than 100K$ per year. Drove the initial business plan, co-authored the board presentation, and successfully championed the approval of HP’s entry into the 3D Print business.• Strategy and Due Diligence: Identified trends in the market and technologies to set the strategic direction and identify gaps to success and potential inorganic plays. Set the 3D Print SW Strategy and negotiated with potential partners to execute the data centered platform strategy. Technical due diligence on M&A targets. Participated in the long term business plan and board presentations, as technology content expert • Early customer relations: Led strategic alignment of roadmaps with strategic early customers prior to product introduction • 3D Print Technology Marcom: Created & delivered Multi Jet Fusion marcom assets for the Technology Introduction. • Strategic patents & roadmap program: Drove the filing plan for fundamental HP 3D Print patents. Drove the freedom to operate analysis and license agreements negotiations. Led the cross divisional roadmap in 3D Printing Software, Hardware, and Materials for meaningful improvements in key product attributes.• OEM Senior Program Management: Drove the selection of development model strategy, partner and technology. Negotiated the contract agreement. Drove the cross-company working relationship, business results discussions, corrective actions, and strategy. Managed the successful introduction of a market pilot product. • Architecture-Engineering-Construction 2020 Strategy: Led a cross functional team to identify gaps in the AEC workflow propose software solutions which complemented hardware solutions to drive significant growth in construction sales.

Director and Senior Program Manager: Manage R&D Programs exceeding scope while on time and under-budget• Quality Strategy: Defined the strategic plan for software, hardware, and regulations towards front loaded quality assurance, driving changes in how to prevent problems, how to recognize, and resolve problems early. Improvements led to a 50% warranty cost improvement in 5 years. Defined the Regulations Roadmap to guide product portfolio decisions.• R&D Quality Director (Dual Role 2009 - 2012): Managed a budget of 6M$ within +/-1%. Hired and managed talent to create an R&D Quality team, one which has clear value-added during product development. Drove overall improvements in employee surveys of 10-15 percentage points. Hired and managed 4 program managers and 45 indirect contributors. • R&D Productivity Manager (Dual Role 2008 - 2009): Consolidated centralized testing (savings of >700m2). Consolidated vendor base and negotiated prices for savings of 20%, for infrastructure and services. Services hourly charges reduced by ~10%. Budget managed to within nominal error (+/-1%). Managed 20 cross-disciplinary individuals and a budget of 8M$.• Mechanical Engineering Senior Program Management (2002 to 2008): Managed up to 50 engineers and 12M$ budgets. Consolidated depth knowledge sharing across Printing Groups. Consolidated the vendor base, negotiated prices, and reduced quantity to reduce spending by 50% on Hardware Design & Test engineering. Drove hourly rates down by 10 to 15%. Established university relations. Drove engineering hiring and managed an extensive technical training program. Co-led the transformation of the Program Product Life Cycle for up to 30% savings in time to market and investment.