Founder, President

Dr. Garrick Villaume is an accomplished technology developer and process systems innovator. He’s delivered exotic devices and valuable products with high-performing business operations for over thirty years. His work developing, scaling, and optimizing engineering, manufacturing processes, and quality systems in enterprise, growth-stage, and nascent startup environments have enabled the designs and enhanced production of state-of-the-art photovoltaic, optoelectronic, and data storage products.

A savvy architect of analytical intelligence processes, he’s developed and deployed complex knowledge management systems across research and development, supply chain and product operations, customer quality, and field service domains for global enterprises, growing businesses, and pre-revenue startups. He’s led dozens of projects to develop and deploy sophisticated automated decision processes for multi-level, enterprise-wide management support systems in Fortune 500 technology firms, and has designed and built core engineering, operations, and information governance protocols for several nascent technology ventures.

Dr. Villaume is a student of complex systems with a passion for applying physics, statistical analysis, and computational models to start, grow, and optimize businesses and streamline decision processes in dynamic organizations. He has a B.S. in Physics and PhD in High Energy Particle Physics from the University of Minnesota, earned a Harvard Business School certification in Strategic Leadership and General Management, and is certified in several leading management models.