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Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Positioned ECA as the leading designer and manufacturer of single-procedure precision torque-limiting instruments and complete sterile packed, surgery ready procedural kits for the medical device implant industry. ECA collaborates with medical implant firms to help them gain clinical and economic value and competitive advantage with surgery ready instrumentation and procedural kits which convert cost centers into profit centers. ECA’s products allow hospitals and outpatient surgery centers to reduce cost per surgery while improving OR efficiency, curbing SSI risk and providing perfect fixation of every implant. Surgeons rely on ECA's surgical instruments and sterile-pack procedural kits every 10 seconds of every day to secure cardiac rhythm management, neuromodulation, CV/VAD and orthopaedic/spine implants. A LongueVue Capital (LVC) Partners portfolio company. Medtronic 2017 Supplier Excellence Award, LivaNova / Microport CRM Supplier of Year 2012 & 2017, Boston Scientific CRM Rhythm Award 2012 & 2014, 2012 Business of the Year Spirit Award, Pacific Coast Business Times, Santa Barbara, CA. Top SoCal Biomed Company 2013 thru 2024. Top 100 private company 2014-2024 (tri-counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo)

Camarillo, California, Us

PBS Biotech, Inc. designs and manufactures innovative, low shear lab to production single-use bioreactors for producing large molecule/bio molecular drugs and vaccines. Established PBS Biotech in the global biotech/pharma market as next generation and forward thinking single-use bioreactor company and alternative to conventional stirred tank mixing technologies. Wrote and presented white papers on value of single use systems in biotech applications with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), in protein expression, viral expansion, stem cells, personalized medicine, biosimilars and with high cell density perfusion techniques. Raised critical equity financing, built sales, marketing and AE team and won customer product trials with major biopharmas and CMOs in US, Europe and Asia. Created alliances with key industry partners including perfusion, sensor and PAT equipment firms. Led proposal team. PBS named 2011 Business of the Year by Pacific Coast Business Times, Santa Barbara, CA.

US power electronics firm (EOS product brands) with 700 employees and India-based engineering and manufacturing. Executed MBO purchase from Jabil and turned company to profitability, positive cash flow within first two months of operation. Won 2008 Quality Excellence Award (2nd place in all India) by Electronic Industry Assoc. & Dun & Bradstreet for the Mumbai, India manufacturing site. Over 1,000 global customers including Siemens, Medtronic, IBM, Dell & Apple, used our highly efficient AC/DC resonant conversion power supplies for wide range of networking, telecommunications, medical, computing, security and multi media products.

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Jabil/Celetronix--$28B+ NYSE-listed firm. EVP & GM of Celetronix Power Products Group. Operations in US, EU, Asia and Middle East and manufacturing operations in China and India. Led 400% organic growth in 24 months facilitating Celetronix sale to Jabil at substantial multiple. Won 5 major power conversion projects with Apple (laptops & desktops) and 4 with Dell for multiple product lines including laptops and flagship Dimension systems. Manufacturing operations in south China and India.

Newport Beach, Ca, Us

Sr. Director of Software Engineering & Product Development and Vice President of eBusiness, alternate sales channels, software support services, training and education. (NYSE company). Software products included linear and non-linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools for simulating operation of manufactured products prior to prototype development. Supported all major accounts including Lockheed, Boeing, Airbus, GM, Mercedes Benz, Porsche, BMW, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and more. Directed 300-person global engineering team development of an integrated software suite for company's flagship FEA products: MSC Nastran, Patran, Marc and Dytran to achieve robust designs, reduce costs, increase efficiency and accelerate time to market of aircraft, space systems, military equipment, automobiles, medical devices and other mechanical products.

Technology leader in high density, high efficiency AC/DC resonant conversion power products for medical, computing, data networking and multimedia markets. Built global direct, multi-tier rep and distribution channel sales organization and marketing department. Developed and launched scores of Branded power electronics products. Increased customer base from sole source laptop adapter supplier to Dell Computer to multiple strategic accounts including Apple, Cisco and Siemens and over 400 SME & channel accounts such as HP, Compaq, Peavey, GE, Medtronic and Stryker. Won Deloitte & Touche "Fast 50" award 3 years consecutively as fast growth soCal high-tech firm. Raised $50M fresh equity from Charterhouse Int'l NYC. Served as interim CFO and help establish manufacturing in Malaysia & south China.

Corporate executive serving in both line and staff roles reporting to chairman & CEO Joe Alibrandi. Conglomerate NYSE-listed company founded in 1942 with multiple operating divisions involved in defense, aerospace, medical, industrial, data networking products, systems and services. Created industry first telemedicine program and store and forward video servers now used worldwide. Launched DoD Shortstop 'electronic umbrella' electronic warfare system to protect US and Allied soldiers from proximity fused weapons. M&A team; managed corporate communications and investor relations. Served as interim COO/EVP of various firms upon acquisition to stabilize and integrate the organization and facilitate management selection.

Co-founder & President NA and EU of this middle east company with operations in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Kuwait. Exclusive agents/partners with >50 US, UK, French and Italian firms in industries including communications, oil/gas, defense/aerospace, heavy industry/construction, medical products and systems, retail and transportation. Established Radio Shack (Tandy) entry & expansion in Middle East and aided Kuwaiti government in rebuilding military and infrastructure pre/post Desert Storm. Partner at Murphy & Assoc., Washington DC public affairs and policy firm led by Admiral Daniel Murphy (USN-ret.). Help facilitate President George H.W. Bush’s 1993 celebratory visit to Kuwait.

Led the editorial and business team of over 30 writers, editors, publishing and business development professionals at Defense Electronics magazine, a 300+ page monthly with 65,000 BPA/ABP audited circulation and 50/50 Ad/Edit ratio.--Editor of 1986 inaugural issue of The C3I Handbook the industry's first covering command, control, communications and intelligence market. Managed and edited the prestigious International Countermeasures Handbook (ICH) covering electronic warfare.

Washington, Dc, Us

Dept. of Defense civilian heading public affairs, security, policy review and related intell/planning activities & reporting to Lt. Gen. Richard C. Henry, commander USAF Space & Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), a government agency (precursor to Space Command & Space Force) heading R&D, manufacturing, launch and orbital control of defense/intelligence satellite systems with various missions and payloads including DoD Space Shuttle, Milstar, DMSP, FltSatCom, Space Defense (Star Wars), ICBM programs including MX. NRO, Office of Special Projects (SAFSP). Managed 15 person team of field and company grade officers and government civilians. Help make Navstar GPS a household name and was principal DoD spokesman for military manned space flight/space shuttle program (STS).

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Active duty flight engineer and crew chief AC-130, WC-130, C-130 aircraft various types. Yom Kippur War, Vietnam including evacuation of Saigon 1975. USAF Special Operations. USAF Space & Missile Systems Organization (later Space Division, Space Command & Space Force), Airman of the Year. Honorable Discharge. Service Disabled Veteran.

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