Title: Director, Commercialization Practice
Category: Senior Professional
Education: B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Mr. Martinsons is an accomplished high-tech executive with more than 30 years of large company and small business unit operations experience in the medical device/instrumentation and electronics industries. His skills encompass product design, program management, quality, and technology commercialization. He founded two new business units at Motorola that grew to combined revenues in excess of $250M, managing international operations across four plants and five design centers. In the life sciences arena, he developed "lab-on-a-chip" DNA testing technologies, complex instrumentation, and built and scaled highly automated manufacturing systems. Most recently, Mr. Martinsons served as the Vice President of Operations for Accumetrics, a private-equity backed blood platelet testing firm. He helped scale this turnaround business ten-fold in volumes and revenues over a 3-year period. Mr. Martinsons combines technical expertise and management acumen to lead products from concept stage to commercial profitability. He is adept at negotiating and managing relationships with major domestic and international clients and partners, and he has extensive experience in deploying lean enterprise and six-sigma principles. Mr. Martinsons has also managed advanced technology development, and he applied this background to found and sell a consulting practice in product commercialization. Through this practice, he helped many startup businesses with marketing and business planning, working on over 30 projects across a broad span of technologies. His education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, with additional course work at Wharton for strategic planning and for management at the Center for Creative Leadership. Mr. Martinsons has also served on Motorola's Board of Directors Advisory Council and Science Advisory Board, and he serves as a Management Fellow at UCSD Connect, where he directed a conference on emerging nanotechnologies in 2003. Mr. Martinsons holds 4 patents.