Jim Morris

Background

About Jim Morris

Industrial Technology President/CEO, Private Equity board member and P&L/Strategy leader with mix of industrial, technology, and services leadership success in operating and PE roles.Innovative, strategic leader attending to detail with a distinctive mix of strategy, product leadership, operations, and M&A. Drove two $1B+ turnarounds and led organic growth from $2B to $10B. Led significant growth and performance improvement in highly competitive industries and drove transformation in both industrial and technology businesses. Leadership and ability to build sustainable, talented teams and organizations post-McKinsey was forged at West Point and in highly successful organizations. West Point undergrad, Kellogg MBA. Decorated combat veteran, former front-line Army intelligence officer.Setting Strategy: Extensive strategy focus at McKinsey as Associate Partner, 15+ projects and head of strategy/corporate development at front end of Western Digital’s $2B to $15B growth. Drove clarity in large-scale digital transformations of traditional industrial companies.Leading Digital Growth: Led P&L’s across Cloud, Enterprise, Consumer, Builder/Contractors, and Distribution expanding channels, filling in portfolio gaps, driving partnerships, managing competitive dynamics and pricing, and taking market share to grow from $4B to $10B.Leadership: Built teams for long-term with sustainable structure, process, talent; built linkages across go-to-market and operations functions leading to 2 $1B profit improvements. Led large scale technical software-hardware engineering organizations.Driving M&A: Led portfolio restructuring and complex industry-transforming acquisitions, examples being $1B+ NPV transaction to reposition company from distant #3 to #1 in $30B industrySKILLS: Leadership | P&L Accountability | IoT | Digital Transformation | Strategy | Product Leadership | Product Management | Marketing | Pricing | Strategy | M&A | Spinouts | Operations | Supply Chain | Organizational Development | Roadmap | Board interaction | Channel strategy | Cost reduction | Design for Cost | Organic Growth |