Sean Wright

Driving enterprise level changes to enable profitable, scalable, and sustainable transformation in support of an industry leading position for years to come.

Providing product strategy, operations, supply chain, and transformation scaling insights to early stage CPG startups.

Directly solving critical, high value challenges for private, public, government, VC, and investor sectors. Hands-on and directly influencing the strategy, solution, and implementation across a broad set of industries.

Building and leading global teams that enable strategic prioritization, enterprise scalability, and global expansion as a core as part company key goals: - Product Lifecycle Management - Architect and oversee new initiative intake funnel, prioritize and align roadmap to company strategic goals, create execute level product roadmap, and ensure execution to framework PLC playbook. - Product Operations - Highly tenured, cross-company leaders enabling strategic internal and external transformations. Responsible lead for initiatives with company wide or significant external impacts. - Country Expansion - Design and enable country expansions. Develop ROI, PRD, and company requirements to achieve as well as oversee actual execution of all new geographic expansions affecting partnership enablement, employment or supply chain functionality, or new sales requirements. - Product Operations Analytics - Chartered to ingest, assess, and make broadly available critical data affecting driver, station owner, and API based customer needs in both internal and external formats

Leading and scaling ChargePoint Supply Chain from start-up to publicly traded industry leader. Founded, grew and led multiple teams in parallel including: - Operations Program Management - Leaders overseeing and enabling cross-functional collaboration to launch new products, bring up new manufacturing and supply chain partners, and mature internal systems and processes as demand, complexity, and the industry evolves. - Document Control - Systems and product organization experts driving scalability, versatility, and durability as customer and industry needs change. Oversee company usage of SKU and inventory management tools including Arena, Netsuite, and SalesForce as well as develop and institute standards to be used by all internal stakeholders. - Sustaining Manufacturing Operations - Leaders overseeing daily operations metrics at multiple contract manufacturing sites. Shepherds for optimizing cost, output, and mix flexibility. - ISO Compliance - Architect and enable compliance to various ISO standards as the Operations expert and overall company lead. Successfully achieved and maintain compliance through standardized ISO improvement and traceability practices. - ESG - Focused team with extensive industry expertise tasked to enable maximum results across various metrics as prioritized by executive board and industry focus.

Led a team of New Product Operations senior program managers for MacPro, AppleTV, Display, and Accessory programs in parallel. Ultimately responsible for manufacturing ramp and launch, including meeting non-material product cost targets, quality metrics, and capacity requirements.

- Successfully ramped the 2017 13" MacBook Pro, responsible for all aspects of preparation for mass production prior to product launch. Coordinated a broad cross-functional team in a geographically complex setting and with a highly compressed launch timing window. - Led the design and bring-up of two new manufacturing facilities to bolster Apple's ability to increase capacity and drive overall product cost by leveraging competing suppliers. - Oversight and execution of CapEx purchasing and delivery for all 2017 new MacBook program launches.

Managed team chartered to target, investigate, and implement new technology initiatives across the operations organization and manufacturing network.

Led the development, testing, and implementation of new product process and operations readiness for product launch in Ghana, enabling localized school feeding programs to combat child malnutrition.

Operations lead for new network design and implementation supporting China-based new product launches. Daily management of contract manufacturer relationships; overall oversight of full operations support capability.

Lead the development, approval, and implementation of strategic project initiatives affecting top-tier chocolate brands with cross-functional and executive leadership. Operations interface between marketing and sales for top-tier chocolate brands, responsible for driving large scale process improvement efforts and new product launches.

Design, test, and implement new product types with large scale capital projects ($15M+) at multiple factory sites globally.

Design, test, and implement thermal solutions for large scale, multi-setting (land, air, sea, space) applications.