Eight equal principals.
280 combined years.
One argument.

More than thirty years spanning the automotive C-suite, venture capital, and startups. At General Motors he was President of CAMI Automotive and then President and Managing Director in Argentina. He moved to Chrysler as Vice President of Assembly and Stamping Operations, spent a year as Daimler’s Vice President of Production Planning, then returned to Chrysler as Executive Vice President of Procurement and Supply and finally President of Global Parts and Service. He closed out the operating run as Executive Vice President of Global Manufacturing at Case New Holland.

Since 2010 he has been Managing Partner of IncWell, and from 2020 to 2022 he served as Chief Technology Officer of Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. He invests through Band of Angels. In December 2021 he co-founded Aro Homes, building sustainable factory-built housing, where he leads under the title he chose for himself — Servant Leader.

Responsible for all Honda automobile production operations in the United States, including manufacturing quality, production engineering, and power unit operations. He joined Honda in 1989 in the Vehicle Quality Department at the Marysville Auto Plant and spent the next twenty years across quality — complex analysis and new-model introductions. In 2010 he left quality to manage the Marysville Paint Department, his first primarily production-oriented assignment.

He returned to quality in 2013 and soon moved into New Model and Production Operations, including a stint leading the Performance Manufacturing Center — then the production location for the second-generation Acura NSX supercar — where he supported the introduction of the Acura PMC Edition models. From 2020 to 2025 he held plant leadership at the East Liberty Auto Plant, then Marysville as Vice President, then Honda Canada Manufacturing as Senior Vice President. He returned to Ohio in April 2025 to take up his current role.

Purchased Exeltech Consulting in 1998 and built it over twenty-six years into a multidisciplinary bridge, transportation, and civil-engineering practice working across Washington, Oregon, California, and Montana. At exit it carried roughly $9M in revenue, a $12M backlog, and 58 employees. He sold to Bowman Consulting (NASDAQ: BWMN) in 2024 and now serves as an Executive Vice President there, following Bowman’s acquisition of the firm.

Before Exeltech he spent a decade at HDR, latterly as Vice President. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and Structural Engineer in multiple states, and a certified Project Management Professional.

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for contributions to robotics and automation in aerospace, automotive, and e-commerce. At General Motors he rose to Technical Executive and GM Fellow for Flexible Manufacturing Systems, shaping the company’s approach to programmable automotive manufacturing. He then led automation at General Electric’s global research organization and advanced robotics across Amazon’s fulfillment enterprise.

In 2021 Skyline Champion named him its first Vice President of Manufacturing Technology, directing robotics, advanced automation, applied process controls, and material-handling innovation across more than forty North American plants. He holds over one hundred patent filings and innovation awards from General Motors, General Electric, and NASA.

From 1997 to 2008 he was Engineering Group Manager on the GM EV1 and the Chevrolet Sequel and Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles, leading release of the EV1’s exterior subsystems — among the lowest-drag production cars of its era. From 2008 to 2025 he was Manager of New Business Development for Fuel Cell Technology at General Motors, establishing partnerships, government relations, and new-energy initiatives.

Thirty-six years at one company spanning electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, and energy policy, with working depth in business development, product design, people leadership, and public policy.

Thirty-six years on manufacturing floors across three continents, now working full time on the Institute.

Joined Royal Enfield as Chief Operating Officer and left as Chief Executive four years later, taking annual production from roughly 50,000 to 113,000 units, profit up nineteen-fold at a sustainable 15% EBIT, and launching the Classic and the Thunderbird. Chief Operating Officer of Ather Energy; Senior Vice President and CEO of Cyient DLM; Managing Director and CEO of EICL, where profits tripled in two years.

Earlier, Managing Director for South East Asia Global Sourcing at FCA, lean deployment across Daimler/Chrysler’s North American and Mercedes-Benz plants, and the launch of the CTS, SRX, and STS at General Motors Lansing Grand River — GM’s first lean greenfield inside a UAW plant.

More than thirty-five years across academia, auditing, and consulting. After his doctorate at Ohio State he joined the accountancy faculty at the University of Illinois, then moved into practice: principal in Andersen’s Professional Standards Group, National SOX Advisor for EY, and corporate-governance partner at Grant Thornton, all in Chicago. He briefly led the governance, risk and compliance practice at Infogix before returning to academia, where he directed the Corporate Governance Center at Kennesaw State University.

He stays close to practice through the Behavioral Forensics Group, where he is Managing Principal and Chief Executive, working on fraud risk mitigation, detection and investigation. He is a member of all five COSO sponsoring organizations, a former trustee of the IIA and FEI research foundations, a former member of the PCAOB’s Standing Advisory Group, and currently a Financial Executives International Faculty Research Fellow.

He was on the authoring teams for the 2009 COSO guidance on monitoring internal control systems, the 2010 ISACA guidance, The Audit Committee Handbook, Internal Auditing: Assurance and Advisory Services, and A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics — the work on the psychology of fraud that has been presented to the FBI Academy, the World Bank, and the IMF. Sixty papers, fifteen books, and speaking engagements in sixteen countries.

Leads marketing for Oracle’s supply chain and manufacturing industries and applications, after running hotel, cruise, and casino industry marketing for Oracle Hospitality (2015–21) and travel and transportation industry marketing (2007–15). For more than ten years he has led the industry tracks for travel and transportation and for manufacturing at Oracle OpenWorld, CloudWorld, and AI World.

Before Oracle: Senior Program Manager at Electronic Data Systems across airlines, healthcare, freight, and logistics; Director of Cargo and Logistics at American Airlines Decision Technologies and Sabre Holdings; and a start on the shop floor as a manufacturing engineer at Tata Motors in Jamshedpur.