Ian Wiese Email and Phone Number

Beyond thrilled to be added to the amazing staff at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. I look forward to contributing to the programming as well as mentoring the students and staff with whom I interact with.

At Metcovery we seek to recover residual metal value from solid waste sources. Our proprietary processes allow for us to do everything from reducing non-ferrous oxide slags back into meltable metal to recovering precious metals from mine wastes. Not only is recovery of value possible, but we also convert environmentally toxic wastes into safe and useful byproducts. The only byproduct of our process being non-leachable glass that is reused as a construction aggregate making Metcovery a zero-waste company.

Teaching graduate level courses in the Engineering school's Master in Engineering Management (MEM) program as well as courses through the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. MEM 490 - Technology Strategy"The course focuses on formulating business strategy with a connection to technology strategy in the context of a new technology, new intellectual property, new platforms and new or evolving ecosystems. Students will be given a new technology and be challenged with creating a go to market plan. Such a plan will include developing the product-market alignment, determining the initial application and analyzing the various markets to determine the best first beachhead market for the technology. The students will also be developing a product/technology roadmap and determining the initial market size and expected growth rates based on industry best practices. These roadmaps will be stress tested by assessing the risks and probable future macroeconomic and geo-political scenarios as well as supply chain and other vulnerabilities impacting the business."ENTREP 474 - NUvention: Energy "This course responds to the demand for energy innovation by bringing together interdisciplinary student teams from across Northwestern schools to develop ventures in the sustainable energy and clean technology space. A partnership with Northwestern’s Institute for Sustainability and Energy (ISEN), this timely course equips students to address through innovation the major environmental challenges that define our era, including climate change and resource constraint. In the process of creating new ventures, students work to align their efforts at making a positive environmental impact by addressing market needs."

I-Corps Mentors are deeply involved during the seven-week I-Corps Teams course. In addition to reinforcing the curriculum, mentors fulfill the following primary roles as networking and industry advisors: 1. Serving as a third-party resource for the team, the I-Corps Mentor helps teams recognize and reduce confirmation bias during the customer discovery process. Additionally, mentors act as an extension of the teaching team, helping participants absorb and apply relevant course lessons.2. Leveraging their industry contacts and knowledge of the ecosystem surrounding the target market area, the I-Corps Mentor will assist teams in finding the right individuals to interview during the customer discovery process. As teams will be interviewing more than 100 potential customers and partners, a well connected and experienced mentor is a valuable asset.

• Collaborated with Board of Directors to drive growth and development in the Non-Ferrous Foundry industry.• Led the "Next Gen" committee as Vice-Chair to mentor and support the next generation of foundry professionals.• Implemented strategies to enhance industry standards and promote innovation within the organization.

With over a decade of experience in the metals manufacturing world and a Master’s in Engineering Management from Northwestern University I have been fortunate to engage in a number of independent consultation projects. Projects include:o Assisted two Berkshire Hathaway owned steel manufacturing companies on business strategy and market growth.o Worked closely with a company implementing technology to convert landfill waste into jet-fuel in an effort to develop their narrative and pitch to attract investment financing.o Consulted on the manufacturing process for specialty-alloy jewelry as well as race-car engine bodies.o Working with a small foundry group to develop a new ultra-high-conductivity family of alloys.o Developed a novel anti-microbial stainless steel replacement alloy.o Performed manufacturing process consultation internationally.

o Develop, evolve, and scale the manufacturing process for a novel class of water purification materials.o Optimize the aforementioned production processes for implementation in a cost-optimized environment.o Investigate and innovate new applications for said novel water purification materials.o Market growth and expansion through market research, customer contacts, and industry involvement.

o Improved efficiency of one of the casting departments by almost 300%.o Doubled the overall foundry output of the aforementioned casting department.o Decreased manufacturing cost in one of the casting departments by two thirds.o Invented, submitted and received approval for a new non-leaded brass alloy (alloy C27460) through the Copper Development Association.o Hired as a casting manager, took on the responsibilities of metallurgy after eight months, and then promoted to Production Control Manager after 18 months.

o Hired as a metallurgist, promoted six months later to Foundry Manager, promoted one year after that to Chief Metallurgist of the worldwide company. o The business model of the company changed and I became the Receiving Manager as well.o Assisted the company in achieving AS 9100 quality certification. Subsequently trained as an internal AS 9100 auditor.o Regularly travel to the French production facility in the role of a business/manufacturing process consultant. Orchestrated the reworking of the entire quality system. Oversaw the streamlining of the various business processes. Corrected numerous material property issues through modification of the production processes thereby saving a number of long term customers.o Created internationally utilized marketing documents that directly led to a number of new clients globally.o Experience flying internationally to meet with numerous potential and current customers in a technical-sales role.o Flew to an international sales conference in Bratislava and gave a two-day seminar on metallurgy for the sales person. Said seminar was held specifically to allow for me to give a presentation that was spawned from the marketing material I created.o Perfected an alloy that the copper-alloy industry has been trying to achieve for over 25 years representing a possible 10%+ increase in sales for AMPCO METAL.