Driven Innovator rapidly converting market opportunities into business growth | Broad chemical industry experience from Fortune 50 to small business | Strategic leader who empowers teams to succeed and deliver growth | Exemplary negotiator focused on equitable outcomes | Built and managed NPD Portfolio and Financial Modeling tools for Fortune 50 company | Led Innovation and NPD teams delivering numerous new products to the market | 5 patents and numerous publicationsMy background as an executive in taking small companies to division-sized businesses and with Monsanto, Solutia and Stepan gives me a unique understanding of the dynamics required for success at high growth start-ups, Fortune 50 multi-national and family run companies.I have enjoyed the challenge of hiring aggressively, building new teams and creating personnel development and succession planning systems to support exponential growth in small companies. The opportunity to create and empower high performance teams has helped me develop a highly collaborative management style. I have been responsible for successfully:• Creating company’s vision and strategy and execution to establish $100MM businesses;• Acquiring and integrating new businesses to create new divisional platforms• Developing succession planning and people development systems in 3 companies• Building sales and marketing teams and establishing corporate and product branding;• Implementing global project management capabilities for oil companies on- and off-shore• Negotiating multi-year sales agreements with industry leading companies globally;• Designing and implementing Stage Gate processes and Portfolio management systems;• Driving New Ventures, Joint Development Agreements and New Product Development programs including technology licensing