Robert Martinsons

Mr. Martinsons specializes in electronics and medical devices, although he works with a wide range of other technologies as well. He has over 40 years of a large company and small business unit operations and consulting 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. As Vice President of Operations for Accumetrics, a private-equity-backed blood platelet testing firm, he helped scale a turnaround business ten-fold in volumes and revenues over a 3-year period. He is adept at negotiating and managing relationships with major domestic and international clients and partners and has extensive experience in deploying lean enterprise and six-sigma principles. Mr. Martinsons served on Motorola's Board of Directors Advisory Council and Science Advisory Board and currently serves as a Management Fellow at UCSD Connect. Mr. Martinsons also holds 4 patents.