John Lenhart Email & Phone Number

I have experience with every aspect of business: from research through production to marketing. After having participate in each discipline, I can tell you:Every endeavor can be approached through a truly principle-based process resulting in profitability and happiness/joy. This is Flow.Flow is the ultimate state of consciousness and is one of the few.

Green Bay, WI

• Co-creator and co-owner
• Created new method of business for supplying chemicals to carwash distributors. (Patents: 7530373, 8210215, 8905088)
• Responsible for setting up and running manufacturing division.
• Lead salesman (accounted for 85% of sales)
• Determined why dirt sticks to cars and method for improving cleanliness and safety.(Patent applications: 20080190445, 20100071717)
• Created alkaline detergent containing soy micro-emulsion.

Depere, WI

• Responsible for any aspect of company that needed special attention. Main responsibility was getting employees to live the vision. Used modeling skills to improve all aspects of the company:
• Created and implemented 5 year strategic plans for CSI and TransClean, Inc.
• Achieved 40+%/yr profit increase for 3 years as well as 4 most profitable years in CSI’s 25 year history.
• Modeled role of distributors (“Bluprint for a Successful Distributorship”) and implemented through Regional Sales Managers.
• Site manager in charge of design and transition into new 63,000 sq. ft. manufacturing site.
• International Carwash Association (ICA) presenter at Auto Manufacturers Symposium

Racine, WI

• 1/95 – 8/96
• Created a model explaining brain-nose connection used in evaluating scents.
• Managed a cross functional team to change internal and external test methods for Plug-Ins
• Solved one in a million malfunctioning product issue. Solution avoided $100+ MM product recall.
• Research team leader for Lasting Mist. Introduced Vanilla Breezes and saved $3MM across entire line.10/92 – 12/94
• Made Shout! soil & stain remover the market leader for the first time in its history. This was done by creating technical models explaining the soil & stain remover market, developing a new consumer test method that.

Scottsdale, AZ

• 10/91 – 10/92
• R & D Manager of Liquid Detergent team. Managed 2 engineers and 2 technicians.
• Served as R&D representative to the Liquid Detergent Business Team. Worked with Marketing, Sales and Manufacturing to create the strategy that made Liquid Purex the #2 selling detergent in the United States.
• Trained team members to formulate and improve test methods. The team introduced 7 liquid formulations and doubled the Liquid Purex profit contribution. The team also saved $8 MM (annualized) in raw material costs.
• Created Liquid Purex with Bleach Alternative, Liquid Purex Free & Clear, Liquid Purex with Fabric Softener. Also, created Ultra versions of these liquid detergents.10/90 – 10/91
• Served on a cross functional team to model the powder detergent market.

Midland, MI

• 10/88 – 10/90
• Awarded the 1990 Dow Chemical Central Research Inventor of the Year Award and filed patents.
• Formulated improved StainStick and trigger Spray ‘n Wash with new test methods.
• Managed technicians.10/87 – 10/88
• Research Assignments Program (Rotating 4 month assignments)
• Paper Latex R&D: Formulated blister resistant paper latexes for web offset printing.

Cincinnati, OH

• 1/87 – 9/87
• Formulated new Liquid Tide with soil release polymers and genetically engineered enzymes.
• Reduced raw material case cost for new Liquid Tide by $9 MM/year through formulation modeling.6/85 – 12/86
• Executed national rollout of new and improved Joy dishwashing liquid formula.
• Developed new Joy and Dawn formulas by creating new test methods. Managed technicians.

Midland, MI

• 6/84 – 8/84
• Optimized the synthesis of 4-methyl-1-pentene via organic catalysis6/83 – 8/83
• Determined heat capacities and drag reduction ability for various visco-elastic surfactant formulations.