Electronic Materials Expert: New Product Development, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Expertise

• Fluoropolymer materials and their applications.
• Expanded PTFE (polytetrafluroethylene) materials and their applications.
• Electronic packaging and materials.
• Printed circuit boards, flexible printed circuit board technology, materials and markets.
• EMI shielding materials.
• Thermally conductive electronic packaging materials.
• LCP films for electronic applications.
• Financial and market analysis.
• New product and new business development.
• Acquisitions and divestitures of high technology electronic and medical businesses.

Experienced with:

• Technical materials marketing in Japan and the Far East.
• Minimally invasive medical products.
• Intravascular medical products.
• European electronic markets.
• High performance fabrics.
• High performance fibers.
• Fuel cells and micro filtration technology, products and systems.

Experience

W. L. Gore, Newark, DE, Corporate Operations Committee 1998 - 2005

Reported to the President as a senior member of the Corporate Operations Committee. This Committee was responsible the long-term health of the Enterprise by providing guidance and strategic direction to the global business units. Responsibilities:

• Corporate Development and Strategic Plans.
• Liaison with the Electronic Products Division.
• Leadership of the Electronic Packaging Materials Group.
• Liaison with our Japanese subsidiaries.
• Oversaw the growth of the Enterprise from $1.2B to $2B while maintaining pre-tax margins in the double digits.
• Lead the annual global business planning process.
• Restructured the Electronic Products Division which led to the divestiture of the VCSEL parallel optics business.
• Divested Gore's electronic module business to 3M at a substantial EBITDA multiple.
• Founded and lead Gore's first Corporate M&A team.
• Purchased a medical device business and developed plans for other strategic acquisitions;
• Forged closer corporate relationships with our Japanese subsidiaries.

Electronic Packaging and Materials 1994 - 1998

Leader of a new venture group focused on expanding Gore's participation in advanced electronic composite materials, EMI shielding products and high performance IC packages. Responsibilities:

• Global P&L for a group of new ventures that grew sales eight fold by rapidly introducing new, leading-edge electronic materials and products.
• Formed new electronics group from a collection on new ventures scattered throughout Gore and its Japanese subsidiaries. Created the focus and strategies that grew the groups sales 8 fold in 4 years.
• Worked with key IC and systems suppliers like Silicon Graphics, IBM and LSI logic to expand the IC packaging business.
• Developed extensive business and technical relationships with: Japanese manufactures of electronic systems, materials and components, such as NEC, Kyocera and NTK; Taiwanese and Korean electronic manufacturers of printed circuit boards and cell phones; US and European cell phone manufactures such as Nokia and Motorola.
• Built a technical laboratory for doing research in advanced composite materials for printed circuit boards and IC packages.
• Supported our Japanese subsidiary in marketing new IC packaging materials and Flexible Printed Circuit Board laminates to US customers like 3M.

Electronic Product Division 1987 - 1994

Business Leader of the $100 million global Electronic Products Division.

• Grew sales from 34% while maintaining high profit margins.
• Restructured the aging wire and cable business to focus on high speed electronic assemblies and interconnection products.
• Began diversifying the business into other electronic products such as electronic materials, EMI shielding and thermal interface gaskets.

Associate 1984 - 1987

New product development leader for composite materials.

• Discovered and patented a new expanded PTFE composite material for low dielectric constant high speed printed circuit board laminates
• Formed a new group to manufacture and market this new material
• Grew sales to $5 million within 3 years

DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE

Various Technical, Marketing and Sales positions 1969 - 1984

Worked 15 years with DuPont in the Petroleum Products and Electronic Products Divisions

• Sold "Riston" photoresist to the printed circuit industry.
• Technical Service Supervisor supporting the photoresist business.
• New Product Development manager for photoresists.
• Invented and patented a new petroleum additive.
• Top photoresist salesman in the division.
• Invented and patented a new photo-imageable tape for masking printed circuit boards.
• Began the marketing of a photo-imageable printed circuit board dielectric.

Education

B.S., Chemistry, University of Florida