Sadler Consulting, LLC (January 2007 – present)Independent consulting pulling from decades experience in industry, medicine, academia, business and entrepreneurship• Technology scouting and vetting (including medical technologies)• Primary and Secondary Research• Wants - Needs - Gaps Analysis• Market/Customer discovery• Client diversification• Competitive intelligenceClientsU.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, Ford Motor Company, Magna International, MTRAC (Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization), The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Automation of Things, The SearchLite, IIoT Global, Global Connected Factory, The Inovo Group

Entrepreneurship and small business

Mentor/coach student entrepreneurs from business idea through launch and operations.

Working directly with faculty/staff mentoring and bringing technology, product or service to market.

Courses:• Marketing• Strategic Management• Business Law• Financial Analysis• Developed on-line version of the above courses• Developed course “The Business of Sustainability”

• Market research and analysis with respect to consumer wants, needs and trends around psychographics, demographics and ethnography• Technology scouting/vetting, external partnerships, R&D• Consumer focus initiative-develop the Visteon brand to go beyond traditional B2B expanding directly to the consumer market• Product Life Cycle Management-product development, portfolio management, systems engineering• Led innovation teams developing and commercializing new product ideas resulting in a distinct marketplace competitive advantage

Led small and large teams at several function levels, departments and responsibilities throughout the company. • Successfully established central, global product safety & liability office for Johnson Controls Automotive Systems Group• Ensured regulatory compliance requirements of all new product designs for all customer business groups• Developed, disseminated, trained, monitored and enforced internal product safety guidelines and standards pertinent to maintaining government compliance requirements

• In vitro culture of freshly biopsied human tumors in semi-solid media for the following purposes: 1. In vitro screening of experimental chemotherapy agents to which a patient’s tumor cells may be sensitive. 2. In vitro screening of new investigational anticancer therapies (chem., monoclonal antibodies etc.). 3. Harvesting of individual colonies that develop in semi-solid media in order to investigate “stem cell” heterogeneity.• In vitro culture of freshly biopsied human colorectal, lung and breast tumors in standard liquid culture and on organ-specific matrices for the following purposes: 1. Define the specific serum-free nutrient and extra-cellular matrix requirements for optimal growth. 2. Establish permanent cell lines for more sophisticated studies including the development of monoclonal antibodies, studying mechanisms of drug resistance, studying tumor cell differentiation.• Developed and evaluated of a tetrazolium based semiautomated assay 1. Designed and developed semiautomated colorimetric assay to assess chemo sensitivity in established tumor cell line and freshly biopsied human tumors 2. Automation of data collection and analysis increasing the speed and efficiency with which new chemotherapeutic agents can be evaluated