As a former Founder, President and CEO for over 30 years, I understand how to achieve profitability and growth. I have a strong track record of aligning and engaging organizations to the next level of performance, developing and coaching leaders and optimizing strategies for new and existing products and services.
Most recently, I was the Founder and CEO of Freeslate, Inc., a $25M instrumentation business that I formed by taking a division of Symyx Technologies, Inc. private by leading a management buyout (MBO). At Freeslate, I restructured, pivoted and repositioned the business for growth, culminating in sale to a venture-backed company with >25x return to shareholders.
Instead of running businesses, I now focus as a strategic advisor and business coach, leveraging my “lived it” expertise to help CEOs of midsized companies accelerate business success.
My early career roles provide me with a unique perspective, having successfully delivered business results while holding leadership positions in diverse functions (engineering, marketing, business development, R&D, manufacturing) at Becton Dickinson and General Electric. Such experiences provide me with a combination of both the strategic skills to develop comprehensive growth strategies and the tactical knowledge how to drive operational results.
My areas of expertise include:
- Leadership & Organizational Execution
- Strategic Planning
- Coaching
- New Product Development & Technology Strategies for successful growth and profitability
I have an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, an MS in Electronics Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and a BS in Engineering from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
In my spare time, I volunteer for several non-profit organizations focused on social causes, providing strategy consulting through the HBS Community Partners program in San Francisco. I also love to ski and sail. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife Julie, and our two daughters.
