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Summary
This Principal R&D & Materials Innovation Consultant is a principal-level R&D and innovation leader with 15+ years building, rescuing, and scaling high-performance materials and product platforms across adhesives, pressure-sensitive labels, specialty coatings, and advanced manufacturing environments. Proven track record leading innovation turnarounds, rebuilding NPI pipelines, and accelerating commercialization from lab through full-scale production. This Principal R&D & Materials Innovation Consultant is an expert in pressure-sensitive adhesive systems, hot-melt and UV-cured platforms, and customer-driven product development for demanding industrial and regulated markets. Recognized for aligning technical strategy with business priorities, reallocating R&D resources to the highest-value programs, and delivering sustained growth through disciplined portfolio management. This Principal R&D & Materials Innovation Consultant is a trusted cross-functional leader partnering with manufacturing, quality, procurement, and key accounts to drive rapid innovation, improve NPI cadence, and build differentiated product pipelines at scale. Open to relocation, travel up to 30%, US citizen.
Highlights
- R&D Strategy & Innovation Turnarounds
- Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives & Label Platforms
- NPI Acceleration
- Product & Process Commercialization
- Platform & Portfolio Leadership
- Advanced Materials & Formulation Science
- Manufacturing Scale-Up & Process Transfer
- Key Account Technical Leadership
- Cross-Functional Program Leadership
- Technology Roadmapping
- Customer-Driven Product Development
- Global Supplier & Partner Collaboration
Relevant Accomplishments
- Led multi-platform innovation programs across pressure-sensitive adhesives, hot-melt, UV-cured, and specialty coating systems, supporting global label and industrial markets.
- Built and scaled NPI pipelines delivering accelerated product commercialization and sustained revenue growth across regulated and high-performance applications.
- Directed formulation, process development, and manufacturing scale-up of PSA systems used in cleanroom, industrial, packaging, and specialty tape platforms.
- Recognized for rebuilding innovation cadence, reallocating R&D resources to high-value programs, and improving NPI throughput and commercialization success rates.
- Trusted technical partner to operations, quality, procurement, and key accounts, driving differentiated product platforms and long-term customer growth.
- Provide on-demand subject matter expertise in materials science, specialty inks, coatings, cleanroom labeling, and R&D strategy to startups, corporations, and investors seeking technical, operational, and commercial clarity.
- Technical Due Diligence: Provided deep-dive analysis on formulation chemistry, scalability, and manufacturing readiness for early-stage and growth-stage companies, supporting multimillion-dollar decision-making.
- Project Scope Advisory: Advised clients on product lifecycles, supply-chain dependencies, and quality frameworks, helping organizations benchmark competitive advantages and identify operational inefficiencies.
- Risk Assessment: Outlined technical, regulatory, and commercialization risks for technologies under consideration, improving client risk models, and making go/no-go decisions.
- Scope: Served as a member of the executive leadership team, partnering directly with the CEO to shape core R&D strategy, operational priorities, and business direction for CTI’s global specialty chromic ink product lines.
- Commercialization Lead: Delivered multiple high-impact product launches adopted across global consumer and industrial brands, including programs exceeding 180M units annually
- Cost Reduction & Waste Mitigation: Requalified 300+ expired raw materials through an AI-supported testing and validation framework, reducing waste and delivering $500K in savings.
- Product Line Stabilization: Resolved a critical clarity and residual-color defect across a flagship product family by redesigning dispersion chemistry, restoring customer confidence, and recovering $300K+ in recurring revenue.
- Scope: Global leadership of product platforms spanning pressure-sensitive adhesives, specialty labels, cleanroom materials, and advanced manufacturing systems supporting regulated industrial markets.
- Organizational Leadership: Directed ~15-person team across product development, R&D, sales, and operations, setting priorities, resourcing plans, and execution accountability at customer pace.
- Global Program Direction: Managed cross-GEO operations between the U.S. and Malaysia, strengthening coordination, compliance, and cross-functional execution across R&D, production, and supply chain teams.
- Resource Management: Reallocated R&D resources toward the highest-value development programs, improving deal success rate 40%, NPI throughput, launch velocity, and portfolio focus.
- Accelerating ROI: Directed portfolio optimization of 500+ custom labels to ~20 standard SKUs, improving production and inventory efficiency, and accelerating ROI on a $2M+ UV hotmelt coater by one year.
- Product Ownership: Owned NPI platforms of labels, tapes, and sterilization-indicating technologies applied to >500M packages and generating ~$4M in recurring annual revenue.
- Scope: Led global R&D programs for multi-billion-dollar specialty digital and packaging print businesses, driving formulation strategy, scale-up readiness, IP, and project alignment across cross-functional business groups.
- Market Expansion: Developed HP’s first food-safe solvent-based pigment ink on low-surface energy substrates, opening $100M+ in new revenue opportunities.
- Program Rescue: Slashed projected R&D program costs by $500K through scope control and supplier optimization, saving the program from cancellation and improving NPVI by 3x.
- Technical and IP Leadership: Led multi-year innovation programs with budgets exceeding $1M, guiding concept-to-commercialization execution across global teams while securing eight U.S patents.
- Mentorship & Skill Development: Trained and owned daily workflow of four senior technicians, mentored three formulation chemists, accelerating formulation readiness, scale-up, and manufacturing execution.
Roles
- Senior Chemist
- Leader
- Director
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