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Durham, North Carolina, US

• Leading the business development team to identify and progress new product opportunities, grow revenue, and secure synthetic biology collaborations.

Woodridge, IL, US

• Led business development, marketing, and sales to introduce new products and grow revenue or Elevance's novel bio-based chemical building blocks.
• Developed strategic collaborations with major chemical and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to jointly commercialize various new products.
• Led the product development stage gate process to commercialize various new products.
• Led market research and steered new product development teams to identify and commercialize various new products and applications.
• Directed global marketing communication activities.

Hillsboro, OR, US

• Led marketing, product management, training and technical support teams for the North, Central, and South American markets.
• Steered the development of the residential, commercial, and utility segment sales, marketing, channel, and product strategies.
• Performed market research and developed the business cases to support the commercialization of various new modules and racking systems.
• Created the Authorized Installer Program and actively recruited over 500 solar installers with benefits including project financing, sales leads, training, certification, and marketing support.
• Implemented a semi-exclusive, regional distribution program in North America that strengthened the alignment between Solarworld and its key channel partners.
• Directed all marketing communication and promotion efforts in the Americas to drive sales leads while growing the SolarWorld brand.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Created and led the Commercial and Multifamily business unit to help accelerate growth outside of the company’s dominant single family markets.
• Developed and executed the segment’s sales, marketing, and product strategies.
• Recruited and led a dedicated commercial sales team and restructured the regional account managers to provide additional commercial sales support.
• Led product management efforts to develop more commercial and multifamily product offerings, such as, a modern style cladding system targeting urban developments.
• Launched the HardieWrap weather barrier product line, which is currently one of the most widely used weather barrier systems in the U.S.

Ludwigshafen, DE

• Developed new growth opportunities, supported the development of corporate and division strategies, and participated in potential mergers & acquisitions.
• Established the business case to leverage Engelhard’s automotive conductive paste technology into the growing solar PV market.
• Developed a comprehensive market entry strategy for the biodiesel industry.
• Developed an acquisition strategy to expand the company’s silica adsorbent business into the pharmaceutical separations market.
• Led an effort to consolidate separate Engelhard product lines into a new coating materials business unit to more effectively address this segment.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Identified and championed new process technology and chemical (catalyst and adsorbent) business opportunities in the oil refining and petrochemical industries.
• Established a joint venture with a specialized catalyst manufacturer to enable UOP to commercialize a leading new process technology.
• Developed the business case and helped launch a new technology and commercial development team, separate from UOP’s core businesses and R&D, to pursue opportunities outside of the oil refining and petrochemical markets.
• Managed and steered the development of UOP’s annual strategic plans.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Led an eight-member, cross-functional technology team to commercialize a break-through petrochemical process, Petro FCCTM.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, Marketing, And Finance

M.S., Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry