David Orgill
Multi-functional business leader with 25 years of broad professional responsibilities, “hands-on” experience and skills geared toward accelerating the growth and development of self-sustaining businesses and global teams.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Information Technology, Nanotech |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Recruitment, Sales |
| Location: | Silicon Valley |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | capital productivity, Cleantech, disruptive innovation, Japan, joint-ventures, leadership, lean manufacturing, operational transparency, product life-cycle management |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California System - Berkeley |
FULL BIO
Manage the integration of technical, operations, marketing, finance, and business management functions worldwide. Focus on productivity of capital used in manufacturing. Highly self-motivated with strong multi-tasking and communications capabilities. Lean Six-Sigma balanced approach with complete transparency and accountability on product cost drivers. Enjoy solving complex business problems that involve technology, people, operations, and organizations.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Litrex Corporation |
| Position: | President, Chief Executive Officer, Board Member, and Board Secretary; Pleasanton, CA |
| Time period: | December 2002 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Leading developer and manufacturer of high-precision ink-jet printers with direct deposition technology for fabricating polymer light-emitting displays (PLED), LCD displays, printed electronics, deposition of nano-particle metals, and solar applications.
Responsible for product strategy and development, sales, manufacturing/ purchasing, field service, business planning, finance, legal, human resources, and IT. $15M revenue, $10M operating expenses, 50+ employees + 25 contractors. |
| Employer: | Symmorphix, Inc. |
| Position: | Co-founder, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Operations & Finance; Sunnyvale, CA |
| Time period: | November 1998 - December 2002 |
| Description: | VC-funded start-up firm based on technology spun-out from Applied Materials to address flat-panel display thin-film technology and later switched to planar integrated optical components.
Responsible for business planning, financing, investor, lender, and bank relations, all aspects of accounting and tax, legal, human resources, IT, facilities, purchasing, and business operations with staff of 9. Secretary for all Board meetings driving resolutions and documenting them with minutes. Managed all major external vendor disputes and negotiations. |
| Employer: | Applied Komatsu Technology (AKT) |
| Position: | Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager; Santa Clara, CA; Operations Support and Control Director; Tokyo, Japan |
| Time period: | October 1993 - October 1998 |
| Description: | Applied Materials/Komatsu Ltd. joint venture formed to develop, manufacture, sell, and support thin-film transistor production equipment for active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD). Revenue grew from ~$50M to ~$500M.
Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager; Santa Clara, CA 1994-1998 Responsible for business success by managing 5 P’s for physical vapor deposition (PVD) and CVD products. Responsible for all marketing activities related to newly developed PVD and Etch products. Operations Support and Control Director; Tokyo, Japan 1993-1994 Involved in joint venture formation from partner identification stage, through due diligence, to integrating both management teams. Supported COO assigned from Komatsu. |
| Employer: | Applied Materials, Inc. |
| Position: | Treasury Director, Applied Materials Japan; Tokyo, Japan; Manager of Investor Relations; Santa Clara, CA; Product Marketing Engineer - Japan, Etch Products Division; Santa Clara, CA |
| Time period: | May 1988 - September 1993 |
| Description: | Worldwide leader in semiconductor fabrication capital equipment. Revenue grew from ~$350M to >$1B.
Treasury Director, Applied Materials Japan; Tokyo, Japan 1991-1993 Expatriate responsible for banking operations, foreign exchange risk hedging, credit, collections and accounts receivable management, local insurance program administration and risk management, and investor relations in the Japanese market. Manager of Investor Relations; Santa Clara, CA 1989-1991 Primary company spokesman for investors and research analysts. Responsible for generating all financial press releases. Focal point for competitor, customer, and industry intelligence within company. Product Marketing Engineer - Japan, Etch Products Division; Santa Clara, CA 1988-1989 Responsible for supporting sales and marketing efforts of Japanese subsidiary - over $60M business annually (nearly 20% of company’s revenue). Coordinated customer demos, forecasted production demand, and resolved engineering issues. |
| Employer: | Morgan Stanley and Company, Inc. |
| Position: | Summer Associate, International Sales and Trading |
| Time period: | May 1987 - September 1987 |
| Description: | Rotational assignments on all fixed income and equity desks. Researched foreign stock market indices. |
| Employer: | I. B. M. Corporation |
| Position: | Procurement Quality Engineer, General Products Division; San Jose, CA |
| Time period: | May 1984 - August 1986 |
| Description: | Responsible for quality of several outsourced critical disk drive components. Worked in teams to evaluate suppliers' quality systems. Resolved disk drive component quality issues with vendors in J.I.T. environment. Implemented SPC at vendors. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1988 |
| Degree: | International Management, Finance, Applied Economics, MBA |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 1984 - 1986 |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Management |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 1984 |
| Degree: | Mechanical Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Enjoy snow skiing, wakeboarding, mountain biking, and golf. |
| Hobbies: | Enjoy gardening. Eagle Scout. Volunteer youth leader. |
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Stealth 2.0
New 2.0 widget-like project combining personalization and messaging. Plan to launch first, add monetization later. Looking for some marketing input as well as an architect to sketch out requirements.
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SWEEP
Small Wind Energy Experimental Program. Establishing a small wind research and development center on the Mendocino coast.
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Tom Kosnik
Consulting Professor at Stanford Technology Ventures Program.