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Provided interim leadership, leading North American engineering team for 1B€+ High and Medium Power businesses. Led global engineering for Medium Power operations, sustaining over 50 products with production across 8 countries.

Established the Danfoss Innovation Accelerator to bring new sources of technology, solutions, and talent to the broader corporation. Built pipeline of options and business cases for strategic development with world-class resources of Danfoss' organization and customer network.

Directed broad range of commercialization activities at innovative diffuser augmented wind turbine start-up.Distributed Generation Strategy: Led multidisciplinary team to create organic growth options through analysis of policy, value chain and competition, and evaluation of financial viability and organizational fit. Conducted due diligence for inorganic growth targets.Product Management: Acted as intermediary on product requirements between BD and engineering. Implemented commercial operations process for 150MW project pipeline. Recruited key personnel in engineering and operations.Validation: Directed multi-million dollar validation program. Initiated partnership with turbine certification agency to confirm design compliance and verify product commercial readiness. Coordinated contract with independent engineer to support project finance by addressing risks in product design, testing, manufacturing and commercial execution. Project development: Managed seasoned development and construction team to optimize and execute development plans resulting in a 37% construction cost reduction on Ogin’s commercial launch project.

Organic/inorganic growth leader for multibillion dollar GE renewable energy business. Established growth portfolio for executive leadership including strategic recommendations for wind energy, wind firming, concentrated solar power, integrated solar cycles, energy storage, marine energy and geothermal energy. Led incubation strategy implementation through R&D (GRC), intellectual property, VC, acquisitions and integration activities.Championed business case for 2009 acquisition of offshore wind turbine company ScanWind and 2011 acquisition of space frame tower technolgy from Wind Tower Systems.Represented Renewable Energy Division in $200MM GE-sponsored Ecomagination Challenge to identify and incubate next generation clean energy companies.Directed multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) programs. Delivered product quality, performance and cost by managing program deliverables, resources, schedule and budgets.Authored and trained organization in Growth and Innovation Practice and Product Design Practice based on GE New Product Introduction (NPI) and Design for Six Sigma disciplines.