Switzerland
Global technology executive with extensive experience leading the design, development and delivery of award winning consumer electronics, mobile and medical technology products to market. Hundred's of product SKUs designed, hundreds of millions of devices shipped, billions of dollars in service and product revenue generated. Delivered industry shaping products including the first Android phone to ship at scale, first smartphone with an AI voice assistant, device for non-invasive evaluation of cardiovascular health and most recently a top to bottom re-imagination of a portfolio of home security cameras, sensors and communication gateways. Built and lead large teams of engineering, design and product management teams with teams located in US, China and Europe. Extensive experience creating the systems and working models to enable these teams to effectively collaborate. A graduate of both Northwestern University and UNSW in Sydney, where he was awarded the University Medal for the top engineering student. Executive Leadership Skills: ● Cross Functional Team Leadership ● Org transformation ● Product & technology roadmapping ● C-suite & board communications, in public company & PE context ● Global team development ● Strategic vendor management Functional Domains Managed: ● Product management ● Digital & industrial design ● SW, Mechanical & Electronics Engineering ● Embedded AI and ML development ● Technology strategy & architecture ● Manufacturing and NPI management Work Authorizations: Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Helping companies build and scale complex technology products and global engineering organizations across consumer electronics, IoT, digital health, and AI-enabled platforms. Focus areas include technology strategy, engineering transformation, global R&D scaling, and advisory support for startups and PE-backed businesses.
● Executive leadership: Owner of all R&D teams operating with teams based out of Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Serbia and Poland with technology partners across the globe. Scaled team from 50 to more than 200. ● Cross Functional Team Management: full stack product development team with product management, product engineering (SW, ME, EE), AI/ML model creation and optimization, and design (digital & industrial) complemented with near shored resources ● Org Transformation: Consolidated multiple competing teams into a unified global organization, hired 150 new people, modernized engineering, project & people process’ and moved team from low engagement environment to well above industry standards. ● Green Field Team Development: Full stack ID and UX design team built from scratch, won multiple “Red Dot” and “iF” awards. Created embedded AI team now shipping millions of vision AI enabled devices per year. ● New Product Platform: Created brand new product platform, replacing several legacy systems with a significant reduction in unit cost through innovative approach to the design of each product, implementation of technology platform strategy and close partnership with our technology suppliers. New platform running at scale with several million devices being shipped per year.
● System Architecture: Executive leader for team making key technology choices and the base electrical and mechanical design of all Motorola smartphones, tablets and smart watches. ● Innovation Management: Built and evolved innovation pipeline working closely with design, marketing and product management teams on early prototypes and concept testing ● Technology Development: Engineering leader for innovations that required development of custom silicon, new mechanical concepts and significant updates to core parts of Android OS ● Product Development: Engineering leader for several flagship mobile phones including Moto Z, the world's first modular mobile phone ● Strategic Vendor Management: Key technical executive working with key technology vendors with annual company spend of > 500 million USD
● Technology Development: Engineering lead and an inventor for industry shaping features such as Moto Voice, adopted by Google as the “Hey Google” feature on all Android smartphones. ● Product Development: Various cross functional leadership roles on iconic mobile and tablet products, including several generations of the Droid franchise in the US and the Nexus by Google product line.
● Product Development: Leading SW teams across US and China setup with an efficient 24 hour working model supporting broad range of features up and down Android stack, such as the 1st fingerprint reader on a smartphone ● Product Management: Various Symbian and entertainment first products ● Software Development: Mobile protocol stack and app development