Ron Bates
Retained Executive Search Consultant

Ron Bates Managing Principal Executive Advantage Group With over three decades of experience, we have proven our search process and our unique concept of personalized retained executive search in virtually every industry segment and functional discipline. Contact us to learn how you can leverage our unique Executive Advantage to help you fill your next Mission Critical executive search.

Ron Bates is a Managing Principal and Search Consultant with the retained executive search firm Executive Advantage Group, Inc. He joined the firm in 2001 to help grow the practice. Possessing +11 years in retained executive search, he is actively involved with Board of Directors and Executive level searches for pre-IPO, private, public, and multinational companies. Prior to Executive Advantage Group, Ron was with Heidrick & Struggles where he was a Partner in their based in their Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park office. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Ron Bates was a top performing Managing Director with the retained executive search firm StratfordGroup (Division of Spherion - NYSE: SFN). Ron has successfully executed Board of Directors, Executive Management, Manufacturing, Operations, Customer Service, Finance, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development searches across the following industries:

Application Service Providers Aerospace Aeronautical Automotive Business Process Reengineering Business Process Outsourcing Capital Equipment Classified Military Programs Clean Room Business Appraisal Services Communications Computer Content Distribution Networks Data Management Digital Signal Processing Document Control

Electronics Financial Services Food & Beverage Fuel Cells Healthcare Hi-Tech Manufacturing Human Resources Outsourcing Internet Services Internet Marketing Insurance Management Consulting Marketing Platforms Material Handling Meat Packing Medical Device Mobile Marketing

Networking Equipment Packaging Print Advertising Power Generation Search Engines Semiconductor Software Sterilization Systems Integration Consulting Telecommunications Vacuum Filtration Video Encoding Video on Demand Voice over IP

With 27 years of industry experience, Ron’s management background includes full P

responsibility, sales management and consulting management, hardware and systems product development management roles with Hewlett-Packard, TRW, Raytheon, Mentor Graphics and Computer Vision. He has sales and engineering experienced in hardware and systems development, process assessment, IC and DSP design services, IP Core deployment, DFT/verification/emulation, semiconductor automated test platforms, custom automated test platforms, and design software consulting.

Prior to being a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, and a Managing Director at StratfordGroup, half of Ron's career has been in sales. He's been trained in Miller Heiman's - Conceptual and Strategic Selling (i.e., "Red Flags & Blue Sheets"), Mack Hannon's - Consultative Selling, Neil Rackham's - SPIN Selling, and Holden's - Power Base Selling when he was at HP. Ron has also been trained in Target Marketing Systems' - Target Account Selling and Executive Level Selling, Mack Hannon's - Competing on Value, and Value Vision's - Value Based Selling (i.e., the competitor to Bosworth's - Solutions Selling) while at Mentor Graphics. He has also taught Executive Call Planning based on SPIN Selling, and a course Ron created and taught at Hewlett-Packard, Mentor Graphics, Computer Vision, Schlumberger, et. al., called "Critical Path Selling" an executive level sales and tactical execution training course. Ron has also coached and mentored from a sales management perspective the execution of deals that ranged in size from $100K - $10M via many of these techniques especially in his roles managing consulting sales at Mentor Graphics and Computer Vision prior to getting into Executive Search.

In addition to his sales management and consulting management background, what is most unique about Ron is that he possesses a deep technical background spanning a broad range of hardware and software technology disciplines. After obtaining a degree in Physics from the University of Oregon, and co-authoring "Far Ultraviolet Laser Resonance Raman Studies of Electronic Excitations": Advances in Laser Spectroscopy, Vol. 3, 1986, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Ron worked for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, TRW, Raytheon, Mentor Graphics and Computer Vision. From 500 MHz – 45 GHz, he has been responsible for multi-million dollar development programs ranging from waveguide, stripline, MMIC devices and antennas for satellite communications, secure military and covert satellite reconnaissance systems, threat identification, anti-missile electronics counter measures, and radar jamming systems. He has developed verification strategies for MMIC T/R modules, High Power analog, mixed-signal, ASIC, and 50 MHz - 1.5 GHz digital IC and MCM semiconductor devices used in wireline and wireless terrestrial and space based Telecommunications applications. Ron has also designed custom automated test platforms for airborne radar, electronic counter measure, avionics and flight control systems, in addition to having developed antenna characterization and production test strategies for satellite, ship and airborne antennas. He has delivered product development process assessments for technology clients engaged in Concurrent Engineering and process/workflow product development Reengineering programs. Ron has also provided product development and DSP design support to clients engaged in applications of CDMA and TDMA communications technology; JPEG, MPEG video; voice compression, electronic surveillance, PDA, paging, embedded IP and programmable core applications. He has also provided LAN/WAN network performance assessments, network design/optimization/integration services, remote network monitoring, customer premise equipment installation & maintenance client services.

The following is a partial list of public sector Technology clients Ron Bates has had the opportunity to provide service to during his 27-year career.

Advanced Auto Parts Agilent AMD Amdocs Boeing Cisco Deloitte & Touche DivX ECI Telecom ESI Ericsson Ernst & Young

Fujitsu IBM Hewlett-Packard ICG Communications Intel Kaiser Electronics Kodak Lockheed Martin LSI Logic Medtronic Mentor Graphics Motorola

National Semiconductor NorthropGrumman Oracle PeopleSoft Pixelworks QualComm Raytheon Rockwell Semiconductor Sharp Schlumberger Siemens Sun Microsystems

Tandem Computers Teledyne Texas Instruments Trimble Navigation TRW Vitesse Semiconductor VLSI Technology Western Digital Xerox X-Rite Yellow Book USA Zhone Technologies

With +44,000 direct contacts on on-line professional networking platforms, Ron has been referred to as "the most connected man on Earth". View his detailed networking profiles on LinkedIn and Ecademy. Feel free to invite Ron to connect with you on the on-line networking platforms you use.

Also a recognized expert in on-line networking, personal branding and building a personal Internet presence, Ron has been an invited speaker at venues such as the Human Capital Institute, Marketing Executive Networking Group, British America Business Council, Expert Connections, Business of Success Radio is a regular guest on Netshare’s "Ask the Coach", and most recently Ron's interview was included in Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies From World-Class Leaders, by Ed Cohen, © 2007 John Wiley & Sons. To view a partial list of articles Ron has published click here.

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