Leveraging over twenty-five years of hands-on high tech general management P&L experience in corporate America, Dr. Henke's 13.75-year consulting practice has focused on a specific number of in-depth engagements which have had exceptional benefits for the businesses involved. These clients have ranged from international manufacturing entities to pure software product companies to professional services firms; from those in early start-up phases to middle-sized pre-IPO companies to larger public corporations.
Dr. Henke focuses on his clients' most important business and management problems, solves them and then helps assure enduring implementation.
Engagements over the years have involved both part-time Advisory Consulting for multiple clients, as well as periodic full-time Interim Executive Positions at certain client companies.
Part-time Advisory Consulting engagements have included (a) helping client management develop new or refreshed strategic and operational business plans; (b) acquisition & divestiture evaluation and execution; (c) establishing new products/services and new business units; (d) reorganizing domestic and international groups; (e) refocusing entities on "customer solutions" vs. pure software features & functions; (f) entering new markets, such as PC software applications on MS Windows, and e-Commerce & Collaborative Commerce on the Internet, by leveraging worldwide VAR channels and negotiating major strategic partner agreements with 3rd parties; (g) mentoring advanced R&D groups; (h) executing domestic & international market surveys and analyses; (i) counseling and providing liaison functions among Chairmen, CEOs and multiple board members; (j) helping to raise angel and venture capital; and like projects & programs.
Examples of periodic full-time Interim Executive Positions include line responsibility as interim President & COO for a particular company seeking growth toward a liquidity event. Another example is a yearlong stint as General Manager of a fast-growing software division in the business of manufacturing simulation, pursuing strategic partnerships and new product rollouts. Another is acting for a year as Chief Operating Officer of an Internet start up in the mass customization e-commerce space. Another is interim VP Business Development of a private, venture-backed hi-tech company. Another was a full time assignment as interim VP Marketing at a MCAD/PLM pre-IPO upstart.
Executed via long-term retainers or as short-term projects, the consulting carried out by Henke himself for various client companies has averaged more than 160 hours/month for the 13.75 years since Henke Associates was founded, not including the consulting hours spent by others on the Henke Associates team.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Russell F. Henke, PhD, FSME, PE, LFASME, is president of Henke Associates, business/management consultants to over forty high-technology client companies worldwide since March 31, 1996. During the previous 25 years -- while serving as corporate officer, board member or entrepreneur -- he was active in developing, marketing, selling and supporting commercially-successful applications software & global professional services in electronic design automation (EDA); finite element analysis and Mechanical CAD/CAM, including the most modern Internet e-commerce; as well as industrial and electronics manufacturing. He held consecutive corporate executive positions at Mentor Graphics Corporation (VP & GM), Automation Technology Products (Chairman & CEO), Gould Electronics (President & General Manager), Schlumberger Applicon (Executive Vice President), and SDRC (President & COO).
Henke started his career in the machine tool training program at the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company and simultaneously earned ME, MS and PhD degrees at the University of Cincinnati. Henke also "moonlighted" as an adjunct assistant professor, teaching mathematics and engineering for 13 years. In 1989, Henke received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from UC. A member of ASME, IEEE and the SME, Henke was elected an SME Fellow in Class of 2000, one of only 225 Fellows in SME's entire history. Henke was also elected in 2001 by the SME Membership as an International SME Director. Henke received an award for Professional Leadership from the IEEE in 2002. He was elected an ASME International Fellow in 2003, and ASME Life Fellow in 2006. Henke serves on the Advisory Board of iSEEK Corporation. In April 2006, Henke was presented with The CAD Society 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award at COFES2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona. In February 2007, Henke also joined Cyon Research's select group of experts on business and technology issues as a Senior Analyst. This Cyon Research affiliation aids and supplements Henke's ongoing, independent consulting practice (Henke Associates). Click on "articles" to read press releases associated with the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Cyon Research affiliation.
Corporate Career & Education Details
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