Robert E. Houf President, Arcturus Services, LLC (2011 – Present)
- Provide guidance and consultation in electronics to executive management for investment/venture capital groups
- Identify M&A needs in electronics development, operations and manufacturing capabilities
- Define and Implement electronics strategies as new-business enabler/growth engine in traditional, ‘non-electronic’ companies
- Advise, design and start-up of electronics organizations; guidance for management transition
- Provide electronics talent definition, acquisition and recruiting support/facilitation/staffing guidance
- Provide short-term, on-site executive management of electronics organization start-ups and transitions
General Manager Controls & Electronics Whirlpool Corporation (2005 – 2009)
- Established world-class electronic engineering capability for the world’s leading home appliance manufacturer delivering electronics development leadership.
- General management of 550 engineers and technologists in 12 technology centers in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Italy, India and China. Partnered with 4,000 person product delivery organization.
- Built electronics development organization that produces electronic technology advantage for Fabric Care, Refrigeration, Cooking, Cleaning, Water, and Portables businesses.
- Executed multi-year effort that delivered an industry-first electronic product architecture – increasing focus on consumer benefits and speed of change while reducing material, inventory and capital costs.
- Led creation and implementation of new component engineering management systems for product development and interfaces between engineering, procurement, and manufacturing to drive productivity, quality, and reduced time-to-market.
- Implemented the Corporation’s business-driven intellectual property strategy for electronics, establishing means to achieve competitive advantage.
Director Engineering/Director Marketing Motorola Semiconductor/ON Semiconductor (1996 – 2005)
- Created, hired and managed applications engineering team and new applications and characterization labs delivering design-ins, new product definition and characterization and strategic support of customers
- Marketing Director for Industrial, Retail and Healthcare segments in Corporate Marketing
- Managed new product strategic direction and customer engineering relationships to drive direction of the discrete, power, standard logic and analog switch semiconductor portfolio for Asia, America and Europe, covering wireless/portable, computing, consumer, industrial and automotive market segments
Director of Program Management – Variable Frequency Drives Rockwell Automation (1977 – 1996)
- Led development and market introduction of a new generation of AC variable frequency inverter drives utilizing 600/1200V IGBT power åmodules in three new product lines
- Managed new product development engineering for factory automation controls, power supplies and motor controls for the Standard Control Product Division of Rockwell Automation
The Ohio State University, BSEE ‘77
- Eta Kappa Nu – Member IEEE Honor Society
- Tau Beta Pi – Member Engineering Honor Society