With 20 years of experience in industry and consulting leadership roles, Nick leads Staufen's US Consulting business. He helps New Product Development, Supply Chain and Manufacturing executives transform their people, processes, products and systems to generate focused P&L improvements. He has a proven track record of leading high performing teams and delivering value to his clients.Nick has over a decade of consulting experience serving many of the largest Automotive, Aerospace & Defense and Energy companies in the world. He specializes in Product Lifecycle Management, Digitization and Operational Excellence.While working at Deloitte Consulting, Nick founded and led the Model Based Enterprise and Digital Thread as a Service offering, where he received the award for Innovator of the Year in 2021. While working at ABB, Nick helped create a global internal consulting group and was given the Presidential Award for transformation in ABB’s power transformer business. He is a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and holds an Automotive patent for mechanical engineering. Nick earned his MBA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and his Engineering degree from Virginia Tech. He is passionate about enabling efficiency, innovation, and growth in the industrial product sector and about building the next generation of business leaders in the Circular Economy.