Ken Breen Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Building a team of EHR (EPR) experts to support our clients in the US and Europe on their Digital Transformation journeys.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Ireland

This is a global role managing the full product life cycle of the entire $5BN portfolio of inkjet supplies for HP Print. As portfolio manager, I am the point person for the product management teams to lead the overall strategy, positioning and customer experience of the HP Ink Supplies business.• Developed a detailed understanding of future product needs by forging strong partnerships with Customer Assurance, Competitive Intelligence, and Regional Category Management teams• Partnered with R&D leadership teams to produce a long-term (5+ years) product portfolio roadmap• Collaborated with printer product management teams to align their product launch schedule with the shorter term (< 5 years) supplies portfolio roadmap• Managed the communication and alignment of our supplies portfolio roadmap with Supplies and Regional leadership teams • Partnered with the Finance team to translate customer, channel and competitive insights into business cases for strategic investment opportunities • Proposed and implemented a gating process to oversee and approve region requests for new products and derivatives

County Kildare, Ireland

This was a leadership role in the Future Product Management team. I managed the Officejet brand of SMB products with annual revenues > $1.5BN • Launched a >$2B portfolio of products into the office printing market• Led the roll-out of a new product marketing model of driving key business decisions through financial modelling of customer and channel insights derived from Big Data• Conceived and implemented a radical change to product design and pricing strategy which resulted in >$500M of additional revenue from the office printing market• Worked with regional category teams to develop and roll out a regionalization strategy to address their Grey Marketing concerns. • Hired, trained and mentored several MBA hires in the US to perform product specialist roles.

Dublin, Ireland

This was a global product management role with ownership for leading, managing, and executing successful program and strategic initiatives for HP Ink Supplies. I owned marketing communication, sales assets, competitive intelligence, product positioning, and pricing• Launched a > $1BN portfolio of products into the Consumer and Office markets• Led a team tasked with developing an Inkjet Product that would overcome segment bias towards laser based technologies in Emerging Markets

Ireland

In this role I managed the integration, validation and customer buy-off of industrial printing presses at customer sites across Europe, Asia and the Americas. • Led the teams that were responsible for validating that the output quality met the customer expectations• Qualified System Upgrades at customer sites• Set up a Customer Return Centre in Ireland for Print-head failures• Investigated class issues to identify and implement long term solutions

Ireland

• Voice of the Customer Lead on a number of New Product Development Programs• Set performance, reliability and experiential goals for New Products• Led WW Cross Functional R&D teams in resolving performance and reliability issues

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Temporary relocation to Oregon to work on the development of a new printing platform.• Led the eTest Process Development and Spec Alignment teams • Developed KPI Test Suites

Ireland

• Owned performance and reliability KPIs.• Led WW teams in troubleshooting reliability issues. • Member of Change Management Team• WW Lead on a number of Cost Reduction Activities

Dublin, Ireland

• Supervised a group of 10 Product Test Engineers • NPI Program Manager, working directly with key customers to characterise and test new products• Monitored and reported on KPIs to WW Management• Hired, trained and mentored new team members.• Drove the improvement in test yields and test times for existing and NPI products.

Ballivor, Ireland

• High Volume Manufacturing Support• New Product Introduction• Analysis of Field Returns