Mark Flowers

Background

About Mark Flowers

Over 30 years of executive engineering management experience with focus on building start-up teams, leading product development and planning strategic growth. Inspired by high impact products, aggressive technology challenges and opportunities to lead a collaborative team of experts. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY: Co-founder and executive leader in multiple tech companies; served as director, and held positions of VP of Engineering, EVP and CTO through multiple successful exits including an IPO on the NYSE with growth to over $1B. Able to refine focus on core value proposition, establish sustainable advantages, and lead progress through diverse challenges. Expertise in developing technology roadmaps, IP protection, and strategic partnerships. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT: Delivering products. Senior engineering management experience including hardware, firmware, software, mobile apps, full-custom mixed signal ASICs, DSP, and mechanical design. Assessment of program needs, optimized development plans, and staffing with domain experts. Leveraging best practices, managing for reliable execution with visibility, milestones, design reviews, risk mitigation, and on time delivery of quality products. Finding and managing the right partner organizations when speed and flexible scale are needed. Expertise in medical products and consumer low-cost high-volume designs with transition to off-shore manufacturing. Energizing teams as they strive for aggressive goals. TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: Deep technical expertise with passion for well-engineered designs. Working closely with teams, often contributing to architecture, design, simulation and/or analog engineering. Challenging teams to pursue best possible solutions and products. Inventor on numerous patents.