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California, United States

Vancouver, BC, CA

Palo Alto, California, US

Palo Alto, US

We transform orphaned ventures into mature businesses with positive cashflow.

Berkeley, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Wheelhouse Partners is a leading micro-private equity firm run by partners with over 60 years of operating and Venture Capital experience in Silicon Valley. Unlike traditional mid-market private equity firms that rely on financial engineering, Wheelhouse Partners leverages proprietary digital marketing, SaaS sales, and data science methodologies to drive.

Mountain View, California, US

Redwood City, CA, US

Advisory in market research, brand strategy, product design, engineering, and management strategy, for startups in the consumer products and chemicals industries.

Loveland, OH, US

Co-founding partner and Category Leader for a China-based startup in the FMCG and consumer technology category. Developed market strategy, business model, product portfolio, and commercial execution plans for launching a new brand to win premium share leadership in a $2B regional consumer market growing +20%/yr. Created 5-year portfolio strategy.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Section Head, responsible for innovation portfolio and supply sourcing strategy for a $360M global raw material spendpool category.
• Led a team of 9 global R&D & 7 regional supply sourcing managers located across 4 geographies.
• Responsible for tier differentiation strategy in closure systems, that led to capturing share leadership in the US for the first time in 20yrs.
• Created global sourcing strategy to balance topline growth with bottom line margin improvement. Developed risk management plan for business continuity protection.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Section Head, responsible for building a new organization to manage supply sourcing strategy for a $450M regional raw material spendpool.
• Mentored a new team of 21 supply managers across China and Japan responsible for regional development & sourcing.
• Led strategic planning and system optimization by training the organization to leverage financial engineering, Monte Carlo simulation cost modeling, Experimental Design, and regression analysis.
• Guided Asia-Pacific quality auditing program, training the team in Six Sigma and ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Section Head, responsible for 5-10yr upstream technology innovation portfolio
• Led a team of 12 scientists (4 PhD’s) in the US and Germany responsible for long-term technology glidepath.
• Managed program of stage-gate innovation from scope discovery to scale-up commercialization.
• Led the technology sector for an integrated Baby Care brand restage program to grow penetration in Asia while taking pricing.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Group Leader of Upstream Nonwovens Product Development and Pull-on Pant Diaper Product Manager
• Invented a novel nonwoven technology to provide benchmark commercial and technical performance for the Baby Care business. Filed 5 global utility patents.
• Developed IP strategy and leveraged Finite Element Analysis modeling to virtually explore claimable white space.
• Co-led Baby Care’s supply chain sustainability program, which pioneered the company's use of cradle-gate life cycle analysis.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Group Leader of expansion in Global Low Income markets
• Led platform standardization across growth markets in Latin America, China, Southeast Asia, India, and Middle-East Africa that enabled white space expansion.
• Directed 10 regional supply managers located across 8 global plants to execute qualification/validation plan.
• Built cross-regional sourcing strategy to balance inventory management & delivery leadtime vs. freight & import duties.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Point of Market Entry Product Manager and Development Leader for global diaper film and nonwoven materials
• Developed and commercialized a new technology for global top-tier markets in the US, Europe, and Northeast Asia that increased category share.
• Invented a new product formulation specifically customized for low cost production in China/India to increase penetration through conversion of cloth-diaper users to disposable.
• Led Reliability Engineering intervention program to improve product quality at design across the global supply base.

Ithaca, NY, US

Invited Lecturer for Chemical Product Design (Department of Chemical Engineering) and Managing Operations (Johnson School of Business).Topics: Experimental Design & Optimization, Financial Engineering & Analysis.

Midland, Michigan, US

• Manufacturing Engineer: Central Plant Engineering: Directed multi-phase hardware replacement of a silica reactor to rectify overheating and obstruction inefficiencies, resolving $500M/yr in downtime losses. Devised and.
• Manufacturing Engineer: Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation Division: Designed a series of experiments to analyze methods of reducing reactor corrosion, driving strategic recommendations to upper management concerning.

• Developed a novel strategy based upon polymer theory and experimentation to reduce the onset and severity of melt disturbance in high-density commercial-scale polymer extrusion, potentially saving $5MM/yr in product.
• Constructed a series of computational models that utilize discriminant statistical analysis to predict the severity of melt disturbance; CAE models are now utilized daily to ensure production quality of pilot line.

Master’S Degree, Sloan Fellow In The Stanford Msx Program

B.S., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering