Continental Tool Group, Inc., prior to its acquisition by ShoreView, was formerly known as P&F Industries and was listed on the NASDAQ: PFIN.Founded in 1963, CTG is a global designer, manufacturer, and distributor of power tools, gears, and other highly engineered industrial equipment. CTG’s products are sold under several proprietary brands including AIRCAT, Jiffy Air Tool, Universal Tool, and ATP, as well as under the private labels of major manufacturers and retailers. The company’s products are used in a variety of end markets, including aerospace OEM, automotive aftermarket, DIY consumer, and other niche manufacturing.

HYTECH is a wholly owned subsidiary of P&F Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: PFIN) and designs, manufactures, and markets industrial tools, systems, gearing, accessories, and a wide variety of replacement parts under various brands including ATP, NUMATX, and Thaxton. HY-TECH produces and sells heavy-duty pneumatic impact tools, grinders, air motors, hydro-pneumatic riveters, hydrostatic test plugs, impact sockets and custom gears.HY-TECH’s “Engineered Solutions” products are sold directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”), and industrial branded products are sold through a broad network of specialized industrial distributors serving the power generation, petrochemical, aerospace, construction, railroad, mining, ship building and fabricated metals industries, among others. HY-TECH works directly with its industrial customers, designing and manufacturing products from finished components to complete turnkey systems to be sold under their own brand names.HY-TECH’s “Power Transmission Group”, PTG, produces spiral bevel and straight bevel gears along with a wide variety of other gearing. These products are sold direct to OEMs, end-users and gearbox repair companies. PTG works directly with its customer’s engineering departments to design or redesign gears or gearboxes to optimize a solution for functionality and manufacturability.

Technology startup in the physical therapy and rehab markets. Commercializing a first in class OTC (over the counter) FDA cleared wearable / digital health device utilizing diathermy technology.

Consulting company focused on commercialization, product development and operations. Routinely work with a variety of different companies ranging from early development stage, startup companies to mid-market and multi-national companies across the medical/hospital/healthcare, life science and industrial / commercial markets.

Recruited by the President / CEO to lead Cadence’s entrance into the finished medical device market space by starting and establishing the Pennsylvania (Cranberry Township, PA) business unit from a greenfield / de novo venture. Created the value proposition, business plan, marketing, and go to market strategy for the newly created business and led sales efforts. Hired, grew and directly managed all team members across functional disciplines (engineering, quality/regulatory/compliance, operations, supply chain, production (direct labor) and support functions (human resources, finance/accounting, IT).

Project Manager for Philips Home Healthcare Solutions’ Secretion Management Platform within the Home Respiratory Care Group. Managed and led a cross functional team consisting of Marketing, Regulatory, Clinical Affairs, Software, Systems, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Operations and Global Sourcing to develop the next generation CoughAssist device.

Selected by management to lead MEDRAD’s initial entry into the Molecular Imaging Nuclear Medicine Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) market space, from initial concept development through product launch. Managed all facets of development activities (direct/indirect staff and outsourced partners) for a cross-functional team consisting of Marketing, Regulatory, Software, Systems, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance and outsourced development partners. As the initial SPECT team member, was instrumental in building and leading team to identify and segment the market, gather product requirements, and develop the overall commercialization and development strategy through detailed design.

Led a new product development team (direct and indirect staff) consisting of Chief, Systems, Verification and Validation [V&V], Electrical, Mechanical and Operations Engineers and technicians in the Magnetic Resonance [MR] Strategic Business Unit. Also interfaced in joint development efforts with GE, Siemens and Philips Healthcare. Also managed direct reports with functional responsibility for the MR SBU’s PCB Design Services and MR Coils Verification & Validation test groups.Primary Operations Interface for MEDRAD’s Magnetic Resonance Strategic Business Unit (~$100 million USD annual revenue). Led all design transfer activity from development into operations and manufacturing. Created Operations plans and led the overall operations planning activity and management, as well as project status, margin analysis and risk reporting to the Senior Vice President of Global Operations and his staff. Established and managed the Operations introduction planning for the new product pipeline.

Managed and owned the overall product launch responsibilities for several networking and communications product lines. Led a team comprised of product engineers, commodity managers, NPI buyers and test engineers while working with the chief technology office to commercialize the company’s first high end video teleconferencing product. The scope of responsibility carried the product from concept to general availability.

Project engineering lead for 5 product platforms (70 assemblies) with an average annual spend of $55 million at Marconi BBRS’ largest Tier 1 electronics contract manufacturer. Led a concurrent team of engineering technicians, product and test engineers. Served as a product/platform focal point for production, customer service, forecasting, materials, supply chain and commodity management internally and also externally at the supplier/CM.