After starting as a design engineer, Don moved into marketing at HP, where he worked with the sales force to grow HP's product lines, doing domestic & international business and channel development & future product planning for the $225M product line. He moved into management and strategic planning. After 10+ years with HP, he was recruited away to help a stalling company turn around their slowing growth, which was accomplished through international business development as well as completing strategic acquisitions, growing the core business from $12M to $18M, then to $30M with the acquisitions. This led to the sale of the company. Don was kept on to help with integration and operational improvements (moving manufacturing from a Maquiladora in Tijuana to a factory in China). After 10+ years, he left to start his own business growth consulting firm in 2003.
