Datapoint
President and Chief Executive Officer
Led this previously troubled NYSE computer company into profitability and significantly improved its approaches to product introduction and marketing, as well as its overall customer relations. Businesses included distributed data processing, local area networking and video conferencing. Products were manufactured in San Antonio, Texas and marketed worldwide.
Nortel
Group Vice President
Raised sales to over $1.2 billion/year and turned the customer premise telecommunications equipment business profitable. Created new marketing channels and more aggressive selling techniques. Introduced the Meridian product line. Chief operating officer of a group of 6000 people engineering, marketing, manufacturing, selling and servicing PBXs, terminals, telephones, and switches.
International Harvester
Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Stimulated the development of new technologies and sophisticated engineering for agricultural equipment, construction equipment, and trucks with a technology and engineering budget of $500 million per year. Introduced a variety of new technologies, including the use of plastics in truck body parts, microprocessors in farm tractors, rare earth steels in disc harrows and plows. Responsible for the management information systems group of 1600 people.
Xerox
Division President
Held multiple management positions involving copiers, facsimile, printers and unique imaging technologies. In charge of copier/duplicator technology development. Commercialized the daisy printwheel for the first electronic typing system, enabling proportional spacing, right hand justification, typing both ways and added display to word processors. Drove the fax business into profitability. Developed new computer printer technologies. Led a medical technologies development group.
IBM
Research Manager
Identified and developed a variety of fiber optical and other optical techniques for successful data processing applications. Manager of corporate-wide multi-font and single font optical character recognition product development programs.
Molex
Board of Directors, Chairman of Technology Committee and Member of Audit Committee, formerly Chairman of Compensation Committee
Served as a director during growth from $121 million to over $3.5 billion in sales. Molex is a global manufacturer of 100,000 different electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnection products and systems, switches, value-added assemblies, and application tooling. Molex supplies manufacturers in the automotive, computer, computer peripheral, business equipment, telecommunications, consumer products and premise wiring industries.
CREE
Board of Directors, Member of Compensation and Audit Committees
Cree is an advanced semiconductor company that leverages its expertise in silicon carbide, gallium nitride and silicon materials technology to produce new semiconductors. Cree products include blue, green and ultraviolet light emitting diodes (LEDs), near UV lasers, radio frequency and high power microwave devices, and power switching devices. Targeted applications for these products include solid state illumination, optical storage, wireless infrastructure and power switching.
Zebra Technologies
Board of Directors, Chairman of Compensation Committee
Zebra Technologies delivers innovative and reliable on-demand printing solutions for business improvement and security applications. A broad range of applications benefit from Zebra thermal bar code, "smart" label and receipt printers, and Eltron card printers, resulting in enhanced security, increased productivity, improved quality, lower costs, and better customer service. The installed base is nearly three million printers, including RFID printer/encoders and wireless mobile systems. |