I'm a business executive passionate about inspiring and enabling teams to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful, rewarding and at times extraordinary purpose. I'm known for transforming complex, multi-disciplinary teams into elite, top-performing entrepreneurial units galvanized around common goals and best configured and deployed to trigger unprecedented levels of success in shortest time intervals at acceptable risk. As a highly versatile global executive, I have a keen ability to intuit creative solutions to complex mission-critical issues and a leader of teams generating results quickly through visionary strategy and flawless execution, I'm behind a string of successes in business creation, transformation, reformation and restructuring - from my current consulting practice, Ascendant Growth Partners, to Shell Oil to National Oilwell Varco to ExxonMobil to Eastman Kodak to Procter & Gamble. I bring deep category expertise and relevant experience that spans oil and gas, alternative energy, industrial equipment, consumer goods and pharmaceutical packaging, and specialty chemicals in both high-growth consumer and industrial sectors.As Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ascendant Growth Partners, President of Shell Coal Gasification Americas, President of Shell Wind Energy, President of Robbins & Myers Europe (National Oilwell Varco), President of ExxonMobil Argentina and Board Member of multiple Joint Ventures, I'm uniquely skilled at producing sustained revenue and profit growth in often complex, volatile, uncertain and ambiguous markets. As such, I'm a first-class integrator of key human assets, energized around well-conceived strategies where all vital interests are represented and have a stake in mission success.I'm able to transfer a wealth of experiences and best practices in business creation and opportunity realization, developed and market-tested across multiple industries, geographies and cultures, thereby elevating enterprises in terms of strategy, operational effectiveness and performance management.