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Ron Bates
Retained Executive Search Consultant
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
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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
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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
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With 27 years of industry experience, Ron’s management background includes full P&L 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
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Fujitsu
IBM
Hewlett-Packard
ICG Communications
Intel
Kaiser Electronics
Kodak
Lockheed Martin
LSI Logic
Medtronic
Mentor Graphics
Motorola
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National Semiconductor
NorthropGrumman
Oracle
PeopleSoft
Pixelworks
QualComm
Raytheon
Rockwell Semiconductor
Sharp
Schlumberger
Siemens
Sun Microsystems
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Tandem Computers
Teledyne
Texas Instruments
Trimble Navigation
TRW
Vitesse Semiconductor
VLSI Technology
Western Digital
Xerox
X-Rite
Yellow Book USA
Zhone Technologies
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In addition to his role at Executive Advantage Group, Ron is also Executive Director, Global Sourcing & Recruiting Network with ExecutiveNetworks.com. With a 25-year legacy as a leading provider of executive peer networks to more than 225 large mostly global corporations - Executive Networks is focused on building the world's foremost constellation of HR-related executive peer networks.
Ron has also coached former EMC, Deloitte Consulting, IBM, SAP, Merck, E&Y, Harte Hanks, Oracle, Red Hat, WorldCom et al. executives responsible for multi-billion dollar business units.
With +43,000 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, Facebook, Twitter, 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.
To learn more about Ron, simply do a Google search on: ron bates
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