Interim Global Operations & Transformation Executive | Industrial & Technology Consultant

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Summary

This Interim Global Operations & Transformation Executive is a global business and operations executive specializing in transforming complex industrial and technology businesses into high-performing, scalable enterprises. Brings full P&L leadership across multisite global operations, portfolio optimization, and strategic transformation, delivering sustained revenue, margin, and cash flow growth. This Interim Global Operations & Transformation Executive is known for guiding organizations through inflection points—from growth acceleration to turnaround, divestiture, integration, and manufacturing network redesign. Combines strategic clarity with disciplined execution and people-centered leadership to create durable enterprise value. This Interim Global Operations & Transformation Executive is a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, and investors navigating strategic change and value creation.

Highlights

• Enterprise Strategy & Portfolio Value Creation:
• Global Manufacturing Networks, Supply Chain & Capital Deployment
• Operational Excellence & Performance Transformation
• Executive Leadership, Culture Development & Organizational Alignment

Relevant Accomplishments

• Shapes strategic direction and business models for multisite global enterprises navigating growth, integration, and turnaround. Evaluates portfolio positioning, capital allocation, product/market fit, and long-term value levers to clarify where and how value is created. Known for translating strategy into measurable outcomes through disciplined priorities, aligned operating mechanisms, and sustained leadership accountability.
• Leads complex global manufacturing and supply chain networks across U.S., Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Canada, with enterprise lens on cost, capability, capacity, and risk. Oversees major capital expansion programs and footprint redesigns that unlock scalable growth while improving margin structure and working capital. Builds supplier, government, and ecosystem partnerships to support technology transfer, market entry, and strategic resiliency.
• Builds resilient operating systems that improve productivity, cash flow, quality, safety, delivery, and cost structure. Balances short-term performance needs with long-term capability building, using data, Lean thinking, and structured problem solving to drive repeatable improvement. Experienced in transforming underperforming businesses, integrating new sites, rationalizing capacity, and scaling operations during rapid growth.
• Leads with clarity, steadiness, and values-based decision-making in dynamic and high-pressure environments. Builds high-trust cultures where teams feel empowered, accountable, and aligned to shared performance goals. Recognized for developing future leaders, guiding leadership groups through strategic inflection points, and sustaining performance improvements that endure beyond business cycles.
• Held full P&L ownership across commercial, product, development, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and HR for global emerging technology portfolio spanning Germany, France, China, and U.S. sites.
• Slowed Corning Laser Technologies (CLT) business net profit loss from (57)% to (11)% of revenue within one year, delivering $7.1M YoY improvement and leading successful divestiture at end of 2024.
• Repositioned Corning Varioptic (CVO) business to high-value machine vision, robotics, medical, military, and ophthalmic markets to reduce dependency on legacy segments.
• Drove 80%+ expected revenue growth, 20pp gross margin lift, and 30pp NPAT improvement for CVO through product focus shift and higher-integration designs.
• Advanced automotive-grade liquid lens platform, creating differentiated “blue ocean” position for ADAS, OMS, and DMS applications.
• Oversaw strategic management of three venture investments in Through-Glass Via (TGV) and metallization technologies to support long-term innovation roadmap.
• De facto division COO guiding global manufacturing, strategy, supply chain, quality, and EHS for seven facilities across U.S. , Europe, and China supporting semiconductor, aerospace/defense, and specialty glass markets (~1.7K associates).
• Delivered six consecutive years of record performance, increasing revenue 126% to $711M and gross margin 184% to $259M while enabling continued growth to $825M in 2025.
• Led pandemic response with workforce trust, operational agility, and continuity planning, ensuring uninterrupted customer delivery and safety across global sites.
• Directed >$200M in capital expansion programs to optimize asset utilization, scale capacity, and unlock significant revenue and margin uplift.
• Rearchitected organizational structure by creating market-aligned manufacturing leadership roles and SIOP-driven supply chain model to support rapid scaling and throughput improvement.
• Served as trusted strategic advisor to Chairman & CEO, shaping enterprise priorities, strengthening customer and partner relationships, and translating strategic intent into coordinated execution across business units.
• Orchestrated CEO engagement model with major customers, suppliers, investors, government officials , and board of directors, increasing senior-level touchpoints by 35% and advancing strategic partnerships.
• Coordinated innovation-focused customer programs, including CES relationship-building campaigns, accelerating growth opportunities across multiple business units.
• Acted as “traveling office” for Chairman, ensuring seamless briefings, stakeholder alignment, messaging consistency, and rapid decision cycles during global engagements.
• Led full manufacturing operations and support functions for five facilities across U.S. and Mexico (~8K associates), driving capacity expansion, cost efficiency, supply assurance, and operational resilience during significant demand volatility.
• Delivered record 2013 performance: revenue +16% YoY to $846M and gross margin +20% YoY to $329M with fixed cost held flat to 2010 levels.
• Implemented 24/7 shift configurations across three Reynosa sites, increasing available capacity 25%+ to support sustained customer demand.
• Secured and deployed $28M+ capital for metal fabrication, molding, and assembly expansions, improving throughput, lead times, and product availability.
• Established Big CR cost reduction program, improving utilization, outsourcing strategic fabrication volume, and increasing automation line productivity 76%.
• Partnered with SVP of Global Manufacturing to direct multisite operations across North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona while shaping division-wide manufacturing strategy, footprint decisions, capacity planning, and organizational alignment.
• Translated long-range strategic intent into executable cost, capacity, capability, and culture workstreams; developed and delivered Americas manufacturing strategy aligned to global priorities.
• Sponsored and guided major footprint and tech transfer initiatives to optimize network efficiency, supply assurance, and throughput.
• Served as Chief of Staff to SVP: coordinated plant reviews, consolidated performance metrics, and prepared strategic briefing materials for executive and board-level forums.
• Served as executive committee leader overseeing manufacturing, quality, distribution, customer service, and supplier partnerships for contract and private-label aerosol production.
• Optimized fill weights and standardized production controls, eliminating overfill and delivering $150K+ annual savings.
• Reduced labor cost from 5.2% to 3.8% of sales through load balancing, downtime reduction, and improved documentation workflows.
• Strengthened output reliability and customer fulfillment by cutting past-due orders 75% via disciplined scheduling and inventory management.
• Served as executive committee leader overseeing manufacturing, quality, design, distribution, and supplier partnerships.
• Delivered $100K+ annual material savings by optimizing web layouts across printing and die-cut operations and standardizing flexographic printing parameters.
• Improved working capital and production efficiency by implementing capacity modeling, inventory aging controls, and targeted capital upgrades (lighting, HVAC, waste heat recovery, automated inspection).
• Directed operations for six pharmaceutical glass facilities generating $90M+ in sales and 800+ associates, driving performance, safety, and productivity across U.S. and Canada sites.
• Sponsored 40+ yield and productivity initiatives delivering >$1.5M annual savings for two years and building CI capability with Master Black Belt, Black Belts, and Green Belts.
• Progressed from engineer to first-line supervisor to quality to operations leader, ultimately serving as expat plant manager responsible for launching and running new facility.

Roles

• Director
• CEO
• Manager
• Vice President

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