Joe Grez

Current

• Team member at LaserMotive
• Founder, President at PropEle Electric Boat Motors Inc
• Project manager at Philips Oral Healthcare

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Past

• Program Manager at Alloy Surfaces
• Research Engineer/ project manager at OraSure Technologies
• research engineer, project lead at EPV Solar

Education

• Westlawn school of Yacht Design
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Connections

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Industry

Consumer Goods

Joe Grez’s Summary

20 + years of early concept and product development PM experience; internal, global, startup, government and entrepreneurship level teams from technicians to PhDs. 10 years with Sonicare (Philips Oral Healthcare). Approaching 20 published patent applications (US and international). Successfully managed the creation-point development efforts that defined Sonicare Elite and Flexcare products which represent over 300 million in sales. Also developed several IR decoys, photovoltaic products blood and saliva diagnostics. Prefer breakthrough projects with significant IP content.

Joe Grez’s Specialties:

• Consumer product development.
• Set-based concept development.
• Strategy- Gate creation and management to manage risk
• Risk tracking methodology
• Defining and driving intellectual property strategy - both patents and internal knowledge building
• Enabling teams- generate highly motivated individualistic team members all responsible but running in the same direction

Joe Grez’s Experience

• Team member

  LaserMotive

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Assisted the Lasermotive team by collaborating to build climber features including top stop, bumper, top switch and bottom landing pogo. Assisted with some tests of climber functionality. Jumped up and down excitedly during the competition with an inability to focus on anything else.

• Founder, President

  PropEle Electric Boat Motors Inc

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Starting a part time business to bring the Electric Paddle concept to portable boat owners. The Electric Paddle is a very light and portable complete propulsion system designed to being most portable boats up to hull speed and can propel any small boat at one paddler equivalent output for up to 5 hours. Sign up for our monthly newsletter on the website and look for our launch in Q1 of 2010.

• Project manager

  Philips Oral Healthcare

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)

  Most notable: management of early product concept development activities resulting in both the Elite (e-series) platform and the new Flexcare platform of Sonicare toothbrush products which collectively constitute well over 300 million in sales. Continue to manage new concept development programs.

Joe Grez’s Education

• Westlawn school of Yacht Design

  None , Yacht Design , 1990 — 1992

  First half of study- pre CAD.

• West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  BS , General Physics , 1980 — 1985

  A General Physics program emphasizing math and key areas of physics, electronics, dynamics, etc. Additional coursework in operations management, team building, various engineering courses at Drexel and Rutgers. Yacht design. Minor in music performance (trumpet) and completed sufficient coursework for a minor in art, West Chester U.

Additional Information

Joe Grez’s Interests:

electric vehicles, oil painting, small wooden boats.

Joe Grez’s Groups:

MIT Enterprise Forum
Pacific Coast Rover Club
Spaceward space elevator competition; LaserMotive team member

•    Innovations In Health

Joe Grez’s Honors:

19 patents and publications at this time. (search international listings)

Thermal Stability of Aluminum / Tin Oxide interface, Ramos, Eser, Grez, Journal of applied Physics, 1988.


Team achievement award Chronar corp.