Wayne Hoffman Email & Phone Number

Wayne Hoffman is a Experienced leader in government and telecom technologies.. at NSN - Nokia Solutions and Networks. Colleagues describe him as "I have known Wayne for ~13 years – he joined Nokia when we bought Motorola Mobile Networks business. From beginning onwards, we worked together with same goal (reducing product costs), however from different organizational point of view – Wayne representing business and I Finance & Control. A couple of years ago (in late 2021), I joined his team as Product Cost Manager. I have always liked working with Wayne. He is focused and detailed and having patience enough to explain things simple enough that everyone understands the message. He is analytical and finds it easy to see behind numbers to discover things we (= Nokia) can improve. He has also showed flexibility to participate now and then to important meetings that were held in European time zone. On top of everything he is capable to show empathy, which I personally consider as one of the biggest values leaders could have, but unfortunately quite often forgotten. Wayne’s best skills are especially in Finance & Control and related managerial positions, however he has shown his skills also in expert positions. Whatever your job position is, here you have great person!", "Wayne is a natural leader who is driven to get the job done. His work at Glenayre was a major factor in the company’s business success during his tenure. He has proven consistently that customer need and company profit are not mutually exclusive. Wayne was equally at home when working with a customer on a new market opportunity as he was participating in a systems design review. Wayne can relate to people in many ways and on many levels, and takes a keen interest in the and the growth and development of the people he manages, both directly and in-directly. His open door policy was a great asset to me and I learned a lot form Wayne about successfully interacting with customers, integrity, and intra-departmental cooperation. I would without any reservation recommend Wayne. I respect him greatly and believe he would be a tremendous asset in any company", and "When Wayne first join Glenayre with the RF product group, my first concern was whether he would be able to help my customers in Asia with the two different RF product lines that some of my customers have deployed. But he was able to quickly assimilated into the Glenayre's culture and worked well with internal and external customers. Wayne is a very market oriented person and does not believes in developing technologically superior product and expecting the customers to need it. He does not believes in sitting behind the desk in HQ and simply coming out with wonderful products. His regular trips to Asia enable him to see the customers and understand the real needs of the customers. He takes customers inputs seriously and most often, incorporate these needs into the products that the customers really needed. Back in the early 1990s, these is very rare for a US MNCs. As VP of product management, Wayne was able to run a very efficient organization. He was able to produce new products and features that the field needs in a timely manner, thus enabling the sales team in Asia to dominate the paging industry in Asia, ahead of a well known US vendor. At the same time, the margin were extremely profitable due to the simplicity and cost effectiveness of the products that Wayne's organization had developed. I strongly believe that Wayne 's organizational, management and people's skill will be a great asset to a forward looking organization."