Executive business leader with more than twenty years of experience providing leadership and achieving results in the rail transportation technology and industrial automation industries. Background includes executive leadership for a global software technology business unit, M&A and acquisition integration, numerous global marketing and sales operations, and functional leadership for Six Sigma and quality assurance in an electronics manufacturing business unit. Over the course of my career, I have had roles in both short and long-cycle businesses. My strength is strategy and commercial leadership, and I have a passion for customers.• Strong strategic thinker - leadership role in driving one and three-year strategic planning processes;• Customer focus – ability to determine customer and market requirements, and drive organization alignment to deliver accordingly; • Experience forming new organizations and integrating acquired businesses;• Global mindset and global leadership experience, including two international assignments based in both Europe and the Middle-East and Africa;• Proven ability to execute operationally and deliver quantifiable results.