Robert Lengel Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, De, Us

• Directed strategic space planning process for divestiture of $6B Nutrition & Biosciences business to IFF. o Led managing process to select disposition of each global facility asset. o Created IT tool describing attributes of, and businesses served by 200+ global real estate assets impacted by business sale. o Provided a 200-row by 50-column spreadsheet of laboratory and office attributes for all facilities enabling business leaders from both companies to make informed and final decisions on disposition of stand-alone and shared assets.• Directed strategic facilities planning process for $40M+ sale of Chestnut Run Laboratory to new owner, MRA Group. o Spearheaded program to relocate 500+ personnel from Wilmington, DE application development office and laboratory campus to nearby flagship R&D campus. o Vacated a 750k+ rentable square feet campus with a prior operating budget over $10M. o Interfaced with local officials to subdivide 164-acre parcel from corporate headquarters site to enable sale of vacant office & laboratory campus. o Orchestrated technical & engineering efforts to transfer all aspects of facility ownership to buyer including thousands of technical and engineering drawings, operating procedures, and preventative/predictive maintenance practices. o Drove $5M capital project to separate all utilities (domestic water, fire water, natural gas, electricity, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer) between subdivided campuses to complete property sale.

• Controlled annual facility services budget of $95MM with 7 direct reports leading 200+ employees and 400+ embedded contractors with scope covering facility maintenance, research crafts fabrication, fire and life safety systems, site communications, and site support services.• Developed $150M site modernization plan of leveraged operations reducing operating cost per researcher by 50%.• Facilitated Operational duties of overarching $350MM+ capital renewal project of campus buildings and grounds. Project transformed R&D-centric facilities into a business research center housing 60% of business functional personnel within New DuPont Company.• Guided site through corporate restructuring resulting in a 30% reduction in personnel.• Defined and executed 5-year facilities capital planning process based on life cycle of building infrastructure components delivering increase in YOY facilities re-investment by 50%.

Wilmington, De, Us

Transformed process development organization of 50+ technicians, technologists, chemists, and engineers into a valued competency center. • Programs engaged highly toxic materials (HTM) and significant health risk chemicals (SHRC). • Achieved 70% reduction in safety incidents through performance management and disciplined stage gating processes.• Instituted Process Safety Management (PSM) mechanical integrity and quality assurance elements ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations.• Ideated and implemented $15MM capital investment in facility consolidation and modernization.

Wilmington, De, Us

Led 80+ R&D employees including polymer, dispersion, formulation, print testing, and commercial product support.• Quickly identified need to listen more intently to customer needs and drive learnings into valued technology solutions. Led collaborative exercise with key customers to define voice-of-customer (VOC), establish technology standing vs competition, and translate gaps into new core technology programs. Sensitized organization to improving speed-in-delivery to outpace competition.• Guided successful development of crosslinked dispersion and encapsulated dispersion technologies, re-establishing market leading technology with critical OEM and commercial printing customers.

Wilmington, De, Us

Led team of 8 process engineers and 14 technicians. Team focused on dye purification processes in support of Artistri™ textile ink programs, self-dispersed pigment (SDP) process optimization to overcome inefficiencies encountered in commercial process scale-up, and new media milling technology for pigmented and disperse dye dispersions. • Achieved 18% cycle time improvement through refreshed evaluation of process scaling factors, resulting in the most economical three-phase SDP oxidation processing. • Proposed and guided $1.6MM capital project to relocate process development assets and personnel from satellite lab facility to Experimental Station Site in Wilmington, DE, resulting in a $600K, 10-year NPV.• Achieved an 18% cycle time improvement through a refreshed evaluation of process scaling factors, resulting in the most economical three-phase SDP oxidation processing. • Proposed and guided $1.6MM capital project to relocate process development assets and personnel from a satellite lab facility to the Experimental Station Site in Wilmington, DE, resulting in a $600K, 10-year NPV.

Wilmington, De, Us

• Operations Manager, Digital Printing (Ft. Madison, IA) – Managed pigmented dispersion and digital ink manufacturing operations and guided site capital planning• Operations Leader, Automotive Finishes (Front Royal, VA) - Led paint manufacturing operations and co-led site quality assurance team in a high-performance team environment