Wayne Kugel

Current

• SVP, Operations and Customer Service at Cray Inc.

Past

• Vice President, Operations at Cray Inc.
• Solutions Executive at IBM
• Sr. Technology Analyst at Carlson Marketing Group

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Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Wayne Kugel’s Summary

Accomplished, charismatic and results oriented executive with international experience. Proven corporate performance in operations, enterprise risk management, product lifecycle management, strategy development, large multifaceted projects, marketing, and sales. Strong belief in coaching, empowering and challenging good people to be great leaders focused on corporate results. Willing and dedicated to provide sound leadership to work through complex issues with teams to acheive successful outcomes.

Wayne Kugel’s Specialties:

Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Branding, Analytics, Negotiations and Process Development

Wayne Kugel’s Experience

• SVP, Operations and Customer Service

  Cray Inc.

  (Public Company; CRAY; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Responsible for Operations, Customer Service, Enterprise Risk Management and Product Life Cycle Management.

• Vice President, Operations

  Cray Inc.

  (Public Company; CRAY; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2005 — January 2009 (3 years 10 months)

  Enterprise Risk Management, Real Estate, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and New Product Introduction

• Solutions Executive

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1995 — November 2001 (6 years 7 months)

  Business Consulting
  Marketing Applications
  Data Mining Applications

• Sr. Technology Analyst

  Carlson Marketing Group

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 1991 — May 1995 (3 years 8 months)

  Corporate Technology Strategy
  Application Architecture, Design, Development and Implementation

Wayne Kugel’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  BBA , Management Information Systems , 1986 — 1991

  o Carlson Executive Development, Growing the Enterprise / Mergers and Acquisitions, Minneapolis, MN - 2007
  o Innovating with Partners in China, San Diego, CA - 2007
  o Operations Research Training, Post Naval Graduate School, San Diego, CA - 1996
  o Business Case Study, IBM/Harvard Business School, New York, NY - 1997,
  o Effective Negotiations, CRI, New York, NY - 1997
  o Issues Based Consulting, IBM, La Hulpe Belgium - 1998.
  o Marketing Cost Accounting at the UW Milwaukee, WI - 1990

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