Leading Technology-Based Businesses into Diverse New Markets.

Focused on Vehicle Electrification and Charging.

Is your business ready for this Transformation?

Let my experience, sales and marketing methodologies, research discipline, and business leadership provide your team with a consensus driven path and tempo, positioning your business for success.

Successful aligning leading technologies to product development, targeting multiple diverse markets, creating sales team momentum.

Instill a Start-up mindset, aligning your business to this high-growth global revolution.

Is there part of your Business Development that is stuck? Let me help you get that piece moving forward, and Accel-r-8 your growth.

  • Short Duration Projects: Quick Impact

    Either independent anlaysis, or short term project leadership can help your team advance beyond current hurdles.

  • Mid-Long Term Project Leadership

    Engage a larger team on more complex projects with well-defined deliverables and timing.

  • Retained Support

    A low-level of longer term availabiity, for representation, market research, implementation support for projects, etc.

Check out the kind of Services I can provide!

  • Founder, Principle Consultant

    John has led rapid turn-arounds and growth initiatives with Semiconductor (Intersil/Infineon), Components (Mersen, Littelfuse) and Tier 1 (Philips, SPX, Dana) and start-up (WiTricity) companies.

    Advanced through Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Quality, Operations, P&L-GM, Start-up Leadership. Former Vice President Global Sales and Marketing, VP General Manager Electric Vehicle Business. Start-ups, to revenue of $450M.

    Extensive international experience, having both lived and worked in Europe, John has systematically increased business in the development and purchasing centers in the US, Brazil, Germany, Korea, and China, working through both Direct-to-OEM sales teams, and Rep-Distributors.

    John has worked directly with vehicle OEMs including Ford, GM, Porsche, VW Group, Stellantis Ventures, BMW, Mercedes, NIO, Rivian, Ferrari, Deere, and Caterpillar.

    …and pioneered ‘sell-to sell-thru sell-with’ relationships with leading Tier 1s including Aptiv, BorgWarner, Magna, HBPO, Mahle, Yazaki, Bosch, and Marquardt.

  • John earned his BS in Electrical Engineering degree at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, his MBA at Ohio University.

    Continued learning in Marketing and Strategy at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and did post graduate work in Organizational Behavior at Cornell University.

    John completed the Ford Operating Management System curriculum at Eastern Michigan University.

    He has had the privilege of serving as Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Strategy in the School of Management at Bucknell University.