Mirth Hoyt Email & Phone Number

Oak Park, IL, US

St. Paul, MN, US

• Collaborative leadership of successful products by partnering with Engineering, UX, business stakeholders, field, and customers. Portfolio focus on water utilities, water flow, and water safety tools.
• Managed a portfolio of customer facing SaaS products with direct digital revenue forecasted more than $65M in 2024
• Integrated AI models to identify issues and speed time to resolution, both GenAI and bespoke models built on 100 years of water treatment knowledge
• Spearheaded transformation from a project focused to product focused organization creating an industry standard organizational model for Product
• Created a coalition for deeper marketing insights to inform software product enhancement scope, prioritization, and lifecycle
• Led a team of 3 Product Managers and 14 Business Analysists within Ecolab Industrial Commercial Digital Solutions

Naperville, Illinois, US

• Product Management
• Created strategy and executed projects that enable a historically chemical/service product offering to include software products as an essential part of the portfolio of offerings, including AI models
• Product management of 3 proprietary engineering modeling software applications that are critical to Nalco Water competitive advantage and sales opportunities of over $1.5 B
• Supported sales teams in winning business via new software solutions
• Partnered with R&D and Marketing to design innovation digital products with high value, including $5 million revenue directly attributable to sales of software solutions in 2020
• Worked with business partners to ingest alternative data sources including PLC, OSIsoft PI, manual entry, DCS, and 3rd party cloud into Microsoft Azure data environments

Kingsport, Tennessee, US

• Drove growth and innovation in materials and market choices by building strategic foresight capability
• Increased quality of value chain discussions via creation of future looking collateral
• Led workshops that applied understanding of macro-trend/industry trend impact to better understand potential market responses
• Increased organizational flexibility/agility/strength of strategy by writing and discussing scenarios that illustrate possible alternative futures
• Developed tools, processes, and implementing AI and big data software tools to support good decision making
• Educated leadership on the business environment by instituting an environmental/horizon scanning regime

Woodridge, IL, US

• Deployed analytical, communication, influence, and organizational skills to drive projects from early-stage product development through commercialization and shape a project portfolio at a start-up.Innovation Process.
• Reengineered the new product development process (NPDP) deliverables, checklists, and gatekeepers to enable products to move faster and more efficiently toward commercialization
• Provided focus and alignment in new product development by integrating “Crossing the Chasm” methodology into NPDP
• Cut over $70k annual costs by designing and implementing new NPDP software
• Enabled capture of over 100 new project ideas by designing and launching an idea management process to complement NPDP
• Led continued implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Microsoft Dynamics to meet both Sales and Marketing needsPortfolio Management

• Motivated and coached a team of ten analysts and was responsible for project management including establishing milestones, resource allocation, and issue resolution
• Performed market forecasts and patent research to generate an implementation strategy for future licensing of technologies with intellectual property and future royalty creation
• Created key criteria for evaluating the future impact of research funds for translational research projects on potential investors’ risk
• Recruited and selected nine commercialization analysts for the 2013-2014 academic year internship

• Developed market entrance strategy and identified potential joint venture partners for an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company with revenues in excess of $900 M
• Interfaced with executives and researched market to determine characteristics of ideal partners

Champaign, IL, US

• Introduced basic chemistry concepts through lecture and laboratory activities to students interested in attending nursing school
• Created lectures and hands-on activities

Champaign, IL, US

• Taught basic organic chemistry laboratory skills and concepts to a class of 400+ undergraduate students in a lecture setting and arbitrated academic dishonesty issues and grading disputes
• Managed eleven teaching assistants to safely and effectively conduct laboratory sessions and to attain consistency and accuracy in grading assignments and written examinations

Champaign, IL, US

• Developed two-pronged, anti-cancer strategies based on cellular targets and new small molecules
• Learned and applied biological techniques including biochemistry and molecular cell biology to determine modes of molecular action
• Synthesized novel, potent, anti-cancer small molecules and tested them in relevant cancer models

Mba, Finance/Corporate Development

Phd, Organic Chemistry

Bs, Chemistry