Greg Steele Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, US

Apptronik designs and builds machines that empower humans to live to our fullest potential. We believe that it is not Man vs. Machine, but Man + Machine that will take humanity into the next stage of evolution.

Union City, California, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Start-up robotics company focused on providing solutions to the retail market for in-store inventory management and analysisDrove strategic planning, process development, and other key activities for CEO and senior leadership team

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Built manufacturing team and developed supplier base to support first product manufacture to scaled deployment at Walmart
• Built initial field operations team and developed strategy and processes to manage robot fleet and data delivery to retail customers
• Built and deployed first 350 robots and operated them successfully in Walmart stores

• Enphase Energy is the leading solar micro-inverter company in the industry, delivering a semiconductor-based micro inverter system that converts energy at the individual solar module level and brings a system-based.
• Re-built entire senior leadership team in 18 months while growing organization 30%
• Delivered entirely new inverter and gateway products at highest quality levels ever achieved
• Developed robust multi-year portfolio planning process, product lifecycle process, and Systems Engineering discipline to dramatically improve development throughput (10x)
• Built on-boarding and leadership development programs to develop team
• Reduced cost of inverter by 50% in 4 years

• Built local manufacturing operations team and moved production to Asia
• Reduced product cost by more than 80% in five years
• Improved gross margins from negative to > 30%
• Ramped production volume from initial pilot runs to millions per year to support $350M in annual revenue
• Reduced annual product failure rate from 2% to 0.1%
• Developed factory automation to improve quality and throughput

San Rafael, California, US

• Increased revenues from $132M/year to $218M/year. Revenue at $280M/year run rate at time of departure
• Increased operating income 223%
• Decreased attrition from over 35% to under 20% per year, about half of industry average
• Created and taught Leadership Development program to groom future company leaders

• More than tripled operating income from 1999 to 2000
• Initiated company-wide product development process, cutting average project duration by three months and delivering first on-time release in four years
• Led company to TL-9000 quality certification, one of the first 20 telecommunications companies in the US to receive this distinction
• Rebuilt entire senior management team, including a new CEO during the company transition
• Conducted analyst presentations, road shows, and quarterly conference calls to promote the company and to discuss operating performance