A serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of executive business experience and enthusiasm for creating new businesses. A results oriented leader with expertise in operations, finance, and business development. Business knowledge spans manufacturing, high tech, software, outsourcing, and staffing.Training as an engineer has resulted in a drive to bring engineering principles and concepts to simplify and automate business process for the purpose of improving efficiency and focus. A vocal advocate of using technology to ‘McDonaldize’ operations so that they become intuitive and reflexive reducing the need for employee training. Built a company that performed medical device sterilization for manufacturers and hospitals from inception through FDA facility approval. As part of this facility approval, Chris developed a cutting edge ‘web based’ process management tool and drove the first $1 M in revenue in less than 12 months. The power of the process management tool along with the company’s unique approach to outsourcing resulted in a sale of the company within 20 months to a competitor for more than $10M.Through operational improvement, Chris reduced a portion of the direct service costs of a Fortune 100 company by $ 23M over 3 years increasing both competitiveness and profitability by more than $12M.Specialties: Chris combines vision, executive leadership and expertise in organizational design, development and strategy. His proven track record of building and managing cross-functional teams has led to his success in many competitive industries.
Listed skills include Strategy, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Management, and 13 others.