Richard J. Petti

As a marketing executive at MathWorks, a $400 million software company, Dick introduced revolutionary business analytics that directly impacted overall revenue and profitability, contributed on all 11 management boards for commercial businesses, and restructured strategic planning to enable project champions and executives to better evaluate opportunities. As Division GM at Symbolics, he turned around the Macsyma business and raised funding to spin it off as Macsyma Inc., which he ran until its acquisition by a defense contractor. Dick served as a consultant at McKinsey, where he received top ratings for his financial analysis, operations analysis, and troubleshooting in R&D management. Dick has worked or consulted in 8 businesses in Fortune 100 companies, including GE HQ and two other GE locations. MBA U Chicago, PhD Berkeley, BS MIT.