Deep Team of Operating Partners
To complement our investment and back office experience, we lean on our commercial and operations-focused advisors, including multiple current and former CEOs.
Consumer Partners
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Tamer Abuaita
Head of Global Operations & Supply Chain at Stanley Black & Decker and SC Johnson, Head of Europe Operations at Kraft Heinz
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Leandro Balbinot
CTO at Whole Foods, SVP of Digital & Technology at McDonald’s, CIO of North America at Kraft Heinz
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Alex Bernhardt
President of North America at FGX Intl., Head of Northeast & West Sales at Pepsi
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James Black
VP Shopper Insights at L’Oreal, Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble
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Beth Campbell
CEO of Giant Eagle, CEO of Rexall Pharmacy, CEO of Sobeys, CEO of Food Lion, CEO of Hannaford
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Scott Charlton
SVP of Manufacturing & Distribution at Publix, Head of Operations at C&S Grocers, Head of Supply Chain at Sysco
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Jim Core
President of Novvia Group, President Home Depot Pro/Institutional Division
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Maurice Coreil
Global Head of Tax at Dole Foods, Global Head of Tax at Diversey, Global Head of Tax at Sealed Air
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Bob Crawford
CEO of Brook Furniture Rental, Director of Marketing at Coca-Cola, Director of Marketing at Quaker Oats
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Joe Fragnito
President & CCO at Reynolds American, Head of Beverage & Snack Nuts at Kraft Heinz
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Steve Matthesen
CEO of Acosta, CEO of DTN, CEO of Nielsen Retail Division
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Jason Park
CFO of Draft Kings
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Doug Robinson
President of Lowe’s International, CEO of Arxx Building Products, CEO of Beaver Lumber, CEO of West Marine
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Ken Romanzi
CEO of B&G Foods, COO of Ocean Spray, President of Fresh Food at WhiteWave, President of US Toys at Hasbro, CEO of Naked Juice
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Malik Sadiq
COO at Livekindly Collective
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Bob Shortt
President of Pelican Products, Head of Sales at Targus, Head of Sales at WaterPik, Head of Sales at Black & Decker
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Katherine Skinner
EVP & GM at IRI, GM Non-Carbonated Beverage at Coca-Cola, Director of Innovation at Coca-Cola
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David Toy
CEO of Heartisan Foods, President of Sauer Brands, Head of Foodservice at Kraft Heinz
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Bruce Vahjen
Head of Procurement Operations at Pepsi, Head of Raw Material Safety at Pepsi, Head of Sustainability at Pepsi
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Joe Yacura
CPO at Fannie Mae, CPO at IHG, CPO at Bank of America, CPO at American Express
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Tory Upham
CEO at Puffin Drinkwear, President at CushCore/Kreft Moto, GM at Dakine Equipment
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Erik Rahner
President of Feminine/Infant Care at Edgewell, Marketing Director at Energizer, Brand Manager at Beiersdorf
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Helayna Minsk
VP of Merchandising at Walgreens, VP of Marketing & Women’s Health at Johnson & Johnson, Marketing Director at Unilever
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Gabriel Arreaga
Head of Global Supply Chain at Kroger, Mondelez, Stanley Black & Decker and Unilever
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Kurt Deibel
Head of Food Quality & Safety at KraftHeinz North America, VP of Food Quality & Safety at Pepsi and Tropicana
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Peter Cummins
VP of Global R&D and Scientific/Regulatory Affairs at Johnson & Johnson and McNeil Consumer Healthcare
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Dan Blue
President of Sanford Health World Clinic
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Nathaniel Davis
Global VP of Research & Development at AB InBev
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Erich Fritz
COO B&G Foods, COO Ocean Spray, COO Roll Intl. / POM-Wonderful, COO Naked Juice, COO Balducci
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Andrew Gross
EVP at Serta Simmons Bedding, VP of Brand Development at Unilever
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Paul Verdu
President of SABMiller Canada, President of Molson Coors Tenth & Blake Division, VP of Marketing at Constellation Brands, President of Wisconsin Brewing
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Andy Keatings
Global Head of Quality & Food Safety at KraftHeinz
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David Taylor
Head of North America Supply Chain & Operations at AB InBev
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Michael Taylor
President of Five Drinks, CEO of Green Flash Brewing, VP of Non-Alcohol Brands at AB InBev
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Scott Vail
VP of Operations at Ball, President of Metal Container, Sr. Director of Brewery Operations at AB InBev
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Chaz Calidri
VP of Operations & Engineering at Pfizer
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Sam Martin
CEO of A&P, COO of Office Max, Head of Operations at Wild Oats Market and Shopko
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Jim Nolan
President of Bimbo Bakeries US, CEO YoCrunch, CEO Sara Lee Fresh Bakery & Foodservice, EVP of Operations at Pepsi Americas
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Mike Corbo
Global Head of Supply Chain & Operations at Colgate-Palmolive
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Jim Mitchell
CEO of Rovagnati North America, CEO of UNO Foods, EVP Sysco, Head of Northeast Sales at Pepsi
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Shehnaz Safiuddin
VP Marketing at Precious Moments, SVP Marketing at TOMY International, Sr. Director Marketing at Fisher-Price, Director Marketing at Tops Markets
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Nancy Loewe
CFO of Pepsi Frito Lay, CFO of Kimberly Clark, CFO of Visa, CFO of Weyerhaeuser, Division CFO at General Electric
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Ric Alvarez
CEO of Richelieu Foods, Anita’s Snacks, Raymundos, Overhill Farms, Spartan Foods, Busch's Fresh Food Market, Frozen Specialties, Castro Cheese, Juanitas Foods, Country Pure and Ruiz Foods
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David Dearie
Chairman of Lark Distilling, CEO of Treasury Wine Estates, CEO of Saint Michelle Wine Estates, COO of Brown-Forman
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Geoff Feil
President of Writing Division at Newell Brands, Head of Wal-Mart Sales at KraftHeinz
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Paul Green
President of Fresh Division at UNFI, VP Sales at Performance Food Group, Director of Operations at Fleming Foods
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Troy Shannan
CEO of Due North, Global Head of Operations at Kraft Heinz, Head of Operations at Nonni Foods
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Steve Miranda
Global Head of Engineering at KraftHeinz
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Jordan Thompson
VP of Manufacturing & Operations at Dare Foods, McCain Foods, Weston Foods and Campbells
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Johanna Tzur
CMO at TaskRabbit, CMO at R2Net, CMO at HSBC
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Dave Albert
President of Home & Personal Care Appliances Division at Spectrum Brands, President of Mechanical Access Solutions Division at Stanley Black & Decker
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Brian Leahy
EVP/CCO at Omnimax, President of Southern Patio, Director of Business Development at Home Depot
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Tom Park
COO of Versa Products, President of BabyStyle, President of The Disney Store, President of Kenmore/Craftsman/DieHard for Sears, COO of Belkin, COO of MGA Entertainment
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Mike Dubose
President of Fisher Healthcare, Head of International Sales at Grainger, VP at Alliant Foodservice, VP of National Accounts at Corporate Express, Director of Sales at Baxter Healthcare
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Heather Kang
Global CMO at Stanley Black & Decker, VP of Digital at Mars, Director of Innovation at McCormick
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Nico Simone
VP of Global Digital at McDonalds, CIO at Petrobas, CIO at Grupo Boticário, IT Director at ABInbev
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Amar Bamra
Director or North America Operations at KraftHeinz, Plant Manager at Coca-Cola
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Adam Michaels
EVP & Chief Digital Officer at Crocs, Head of E-Commerce at Reebok
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Bill Lehman
Chief Business Officer for Genuine Foods, CFO of DrinkWorks, Head of Global Indirect Procurement at ABInbev and Compass Group
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Jash Pabbi
SVP of Technical Services & Food Quality at Baxters North America and Director of Food Quality at Hero, Lufthansa, Nestle and Coca Cola
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Cole Orobetz
CEO and Co-Founder of Alpha Foods
Industrial Partners
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Tom Brosnan
CEO of Norko Refrigeration, CEO of Novum Refrigeration
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Bert Davis
GM of Transmission, Distribution and Grid Modernization at Georgia Power
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Dean Douglas
CEO of Dover Pump Solutions, CEO of Peerless Pump, GM US & Canada at Sulzer
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Doug Esamann
EVP of Transmission, Distribution, Product & Service at Duke Energy
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Bill Estes
GM of Anderson Power Products, VP of Electrical & Industrial Division at AZZ
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Josh Gordon
President of Diesel Exhaust Division at Old World Industries, Division Sales Head at Graham Packaging
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Roy Haley
CEO of Wesco International
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Ilham Kadri
CEO of Solvay, CEO of Diversey, GM Europe & Middle East at Dow Chemical
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Sep Kousha
Head of Direct Procurement at LafargeHolcim, Head of Procurement at Pratt & Whitney
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Greg McQueen
Head of North America at Spirax Sarco, President of nVent Industrial Heat Tracing
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Pratap Mukharji
Head of Supply Chain & Service Practice at Bain & Company
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Ben Skoog
Head of Growth & Innovation at Louisiana-Pacific, VP Sales & Marketing at Arcitell
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Bill Strenglis
President of Dover Foodservice Equipment Division
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Jeff Trattner
Head of Marketing at Roppe Holdings, Head of Marketing at State Industrial, Director Marketing at GOJO Industries
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Jim Underhill
COO & CFO at MRC Global
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Gary Uren
President of Legend Corporation, President of Atkore, President of Tyco Electrical Products Asia
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Mike Costello
CEO of Otto Environmental, GM/Head of Sales at Waste Connections, Allied Waste, Republic, Waste Management and BFI
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Jim Prescott
CEO of DiversiTech, CEO of Danzer Veneer Americas, CEO of Fenner Dunlop Americas, CEO of Ahlstrom Engine Filtration
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Ken Golder
CEO and Division Head of North America at Clariant Corporation
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Todd Williams
President of Cardo/ENTRIX, Head of Marketing at TRC, Head of Environmental Practice at Dillon Kane
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Raj Gupta
Head of Engineering at Canadian National Railway, Head of Engineering/R&D at Trinity Industries, President of Aerospace Division at Parker Hannifin
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Greg Soutendijk
President of Asia Fragrances and Global Head of Corporate Development at IFF
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Alan Roth
CEO of the Material Technology/Life Sciences Division at Element
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Mark Traylor
President of The AMES Companies
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Mark Panico
President of Legrand Data Communications, GM of Nalco Industrial Division, GM of Honeywell Control Systems Division
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Rob Jablonski
VP of Operations at Kohler, COO Baker Furniture, VP Engineering Pella, VP R&D at Associated Materials, GM Delphi
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Ray Torres
CEO Fenix Group, CEO Checkers Safety, CEO Amcor White Cap
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Marc Boreham
President of Technical Safety Services, President of Lab Division at Agilent Technologies
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Steve Chamberlin
President of Husqvarna, Chief Revenue Officer at Arrowhead, President of Makinex Americas, President Consumer Products at Sterno Group
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Steve Bouck
CEO of Waste Connections
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Tim Cook
CEO of Linxis , CEO of Shick Esteve, VP of Sales at AMF Bakery Systems
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Brian Mason
President of SPX Transformer, President of Bel Fuse, President of Emerson’s Network Power/Connectivity Solutions Division
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Paul Cox
President of John Crane Division at Smiths, President of Antenna Products Division at Andrews Corp.
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Marty Travers
President of Black & Veatch
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Chris Boehm
COO of Myers Power Products, Head of Power System Solutions at S&C Electric, EVP at IEC Systems, Director Global Operations at Powell
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Sunil Malhotra
Head of Operations at Klein Tool, Head of Operations at Pelican, Head of Manufacturing at Johnson Controls, VP of Operations at Schneider Electric
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John Attayek
CEO of DazPak, CEO of Inovar, CEO of Tapp Label
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Isis Tumos
Change Management at State of Maryland, ADP, Amgen and Toyota
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Richard Falk
VP of Operations at US Foods, VP of Operation at UTi Worldwide, VP of Supply Chain at GENCO, COO at DB Schenker
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Mark Burel
CEO of SWAT Environmental, CEO of Hoffman Southwest, CEO of USIC, CEO of American Residential Services
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Rob Wilhite
Head of the Distributed Energy Business at Black & Veatch
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Brian Truesdale
President of Fluid & Metering at IDEX, President Marmon Foodservice Equipment, GM of Switch & Sensor Division at ITW
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Mike Ludwig
VP of Marketing/E-Commerce at JPW, Head of Marketing at Wesco Distribution
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Kevin Foti
President of Praxair and NuCO2
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David Coolidge
CEO of Nivel, CEO of Gearbox, Chairman of Bosch Canada, EVP of the Auto Aftermarket Division at Bosch
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John Patterson
President of Thermoseal, Head of Food Retail Division at Dover, Head of Global Operations at Anthony International, COO of Senneca Holdings
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Ugo Ferrante
CIO at Diversey, CIO at Cummins, VP of Enterprise Architecture at LafargeHolcim
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Travis Wagner
VP of SUEZ’s Smart & Environmental Solutions Business, VP at Pure Technologies
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Lukas Loeffler
President of the Schneider Electric Water/Wastewater Business, CEO of Evoqua, CEO of Siemens Water
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Terry Dixon
President of Konica Minolta, EVP of Imaging Systems
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Rich Voorberg
President of Siemens Energy North America, EVP of Siemens Generation Services
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Ray Aschenbach
COO of KBS, President & COO of Advanced Technology Services (ATS), President of North America Operations & Global Digital Solutions at Iron Mountain
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Michael Lagg
SVP & Head of Global Sales at Iron Mountain
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Noel Heiks
Founder & CEO of Nuvotronics, Board Member at EMCORE, Interim CEO of Duos Technologies
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Joe Vesey
CMO and President of Xylem Americas
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Greg Rogowski
President of Mueller Water, CEO of Performance Fibers, President of the Honeywell Performance Fibers Business
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Stephen Haley
VP of Global Sales at G&W Electric, VP of Global Sales at Wyman Gordon
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Charlie Daniels
President of the Global Communications Business (GCS) at L3Harris, President of DRS Technologies, Head of Satellite & Communications at NAVWAR
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Dave Flinton
SVP & Chief Technology & Products Officer at Xylem, President of Water Infrastructure & Europe at Xylem
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Med Hasib
Head of Engineering at Ametek, CTO/Head of Engineering at Amphenol, Director of Global Engineering at Honeywell, Head of Global R&D for Controls/Motors at Siemens
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Jon Leombrone
EVP & President of Navigation Systems at Safran Federal Systems, Head of Strategy for the Communications Business at L3Harris, Director of International Programs & Airborne Systems at L3Harris
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Sherezad Shafiq
Head of Sales & Marketing for the Commercial Buildings Business at Grundfos
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Heiner Markhoff
CEO of Suez Water Technologies & Solutions, CEO of GE Water & Distributed Power, President of GE Plastics Europe
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Jim Parejko
VP of Engineering at G&W Electric, VP of Engineering at Bison Gear, Chief Engineer at Emerson Industrial Automation
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Bill Vasquez
President of TES Americas, VP of ITAD at Sims Recycling, COO of TASQ Technology, VP of Operations at ExpressPoint Technology
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Sam Halawi
CEO of AALTO HAPS, EVP & CCO at Intelsat, CCO of OneWeb, CEO of Thuraya
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Mike Moran
VP of Security & Fire Sales at Johnson Controls (JCI), VP of Commercial Sales at Tyco Security & Fire, Director of Commercial Sales at ADT Security & Fire
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Michael Epperson
CEO of Protegis Fire & Safety, CEO of ISA Fire & Security, CEO of Flow Service Partners, VP of Marketing at Stanley Security Solutions
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JP Berres
VP of Sales at Osprey Fire & Life Safety, Head of National Accounts at Consolidated Fire Protection, Head of Pacific Northwest at COSCO Fire Protection
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Matt Anderson
Chief Growth Officer at Space Force, COO at Space Force, Air Force Colonel/Wing Commander
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Jim Madson
VP of Sales for North America Fire Protection at Johnson Controls (JCI), VP of Sales at SimplexGrinnell, President of the Eastern US Security Business at Siemens
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Gene Postma
COO of API, Area Director for the National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA), CEO of Western States Fire Protection
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George Toth
CMO at Jensen Hughes, President of Rolf Jensen, President of Sako
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Rob Salek
Board Member at Summit Fire Protection, CEO of Consolidated Fire Protection, President of Asia/Europe/Australia for Tyco Fire & Security
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Kamran Malek
President of International Fire at API
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Marc Mansell
President of Bose Automotive
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Brendan Walsh
President of EBI Space & Defense, President of Ensign-Bickford Aerospace
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James Schwindeman
President of Premium Plant Services
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Ron Rothman
President of AFA Protective Systems, President of Honeywell Americas Security & Fire Business
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Phil Aronson
CEO of Aronson Security Group, VP at ADT Commercial
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Jim Simpson
Chief Strategy Officer at Virgin Orbit, CEO of Saturn Satellite, CEO of ABS, SVP at Aerojet Rocketdyne
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Ray Dezarate
VP of Sales & National Accounts at Protection One, SVP of Sales at Sonitrol Security Systems, President of Checkpoint Systems Americas
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Eric Butte
VP of Engineering at Space Micro, CTO at Xenesis, CTO at Helios Wire IoT, Chief Architect at Lockheed Martin, Advanced Program Director at SSL (Space Systems Loral)
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Kwame Williams
Regional VP of the Central Region for ADT Commercial, Sr. Director of Operations at Red Hawk Fire & Security
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Jim Hooper
SVP of Space & Defense at SES, Chief Commercial Officer of SES, VP of Global Government Sales at SES
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Elias Zaccack
EVP & Global Head of Sales at SES Networks, SVP & Head of the Americas Commercial Business at SES Networks
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Don Rodrigues
President of the Communications & Microwave Products Business, Power & Propulsion Systems Business and Aerospace Products Business at L3Harris
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Sandeep Arora
Head of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain at GE Prolec, VP of Transformers at Schneider Electric, President of India at Schneider Electric, Head of Transformer Operations at CG Power/Crompton Greaves
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Jerome Soltani
SVP of the US Services Business at Schneider Electric
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Stuart Thompson
President of the Electrification Services Business at ABB, President of Engineered Solutions & Power Equipment at GE Power
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Dave Henrichs
SVP of Sales for the Western Region of ABB, Head of Turnkey System Sales at Emerson Americas, VP of Sales & Marketing at Quick Cable, President of Pro-face Americas
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Randy Bays
President of Sensus, SVP at Xylem, CEO of Kinetek
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Sergio Corbo
Chief Commercial Officer of Veolia, Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer at GE Energy, VP of Sales/Marketing at Schneider Electric, President of Magnetek