Gary Peterson Email & Phone Number

An experienced executive leader, bringing growth and profitability through the introduction of new products, portfolio management, process improvement and strategy development. Recent accomplishments include: Greatly improved the volume, speed and quality of the new product pipeline through new processes, people and development tools.Delivered a 10x increase in the volume of new products launched getting to a 4% purely incremental CAGR contribution and a new product vitality measure of 20%+.Leveraged my experience in strategic co-location to globalize the development environment and take advantage of the operational improvements and cost reductions.Enabled reductions in inventory costs and generated significant cash flow by transforming a serial product environment into product families to reduce complexities and costs downstream. Redesigned the investment and capital decision process to focus on the highest priorities for products and drove teams in a collaborative business model to align efforts across the company.Transformed and migrated a legacy organization into a high performing, highly efficient team, that now consistently meets commitments on cost, timing, quality and market performance.Repositioned the business in ways that minimized the impact of the‘08/’09 recession and enabled a return to 10% Operating Margin.. I have every interest in continuing to deliver this value at any companies that need to:• Expand and grow without significant fixed investment.• Re-energize its product pipeline to accelerate organic growth.• Drive operating income and serve customers via new offerings.• Accelerate new product delivery and improve quality• Energize a team• Manage or expand globally• Leverage partnerships and internal stakeholders to deliver this value.Specialties: Product Development, Global Operations, Portfolio Strategy, Growth without Significant Investment, Team transformation, Delivering Innovation, Collaboration, Empowerment

Listed skills include Product Development, Strategy, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Team Building, and 29 others.