Experts In Residence Program

Bob Daniel-Wayman "BDW" | Engineering & Product

BDW brings over 30 years of experience in developing and shipping products along with leading quality efforts in a global product and solutions company. Over his career, he developed large scale telecommunications products, a pioneering consumer IoT product, industrial automation, consumer durables, and consumer electronics.

Along the way, he was granted 23 patents and served as V.P. of Engineering and V.P. of Quality. His senior-level experience provides insight into the impact of technical, business, and organizational strategies on company success.

Are you looking for critical insights on design approach? Worried about ensuring a quality product? Seeking help with planning your design path, thinking through production processes, or identifying potential gaps in your approach before they hold you back?

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Karthik Chandramouli | Supply Chain

Karthik is a versatile leader who blends a rare combo of world-class supply chain expertise at Global 50 firms, with product and bizops experience at growth-stage technology startups.

Most recently, Karthik led Product and E-Commerce for a wireless charging startup in Chicago, launching multiple hardware products and designing a digital marketing campaign for a new direct-to-consumer channel.

Karthik's career began at Toyota, where he led supply chain network optimization and growth initiatives. He then moved to Motorola and drove a global Lean Transformation across 14 factories in 10 countries, achieving world-class quality and flexibility - a first in the consumer electronic industry.

Feel free to reach out if you are wrestling with: How does your product become a reality? Which suppliers should I work with? How do you reduce risk in a new product launch? What is lead time? How do you scale supply? How do you move supply chain concerns upstream into the design phase? How do you ensure high quality and low cost?

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Marcy Capron | Entrepreneurship & Product Management

Marcy Capron, mHUB Expert in Residence, is a Chicago-based entrepreneur, inventor, strategist, engineer, and designer sitting at the intersection of technology and the human condition. Marcy studied at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Northwestern University before founding Plymathic in 2010, a digital innovation consultancy that was the go-to technical co-founding team for 30+ Chicagoland startups; acquired by Tandem in 2017.

From 2018-2022, Marcy served as Chief Product & Tech Officer at Equilibria ("EQ"), a women's cannabis tech company she co-founded with Coco Meers, focused on personalized wellness routines for real outcomes. Marcy's recent entrepreneurial endeavors have led her to founding Paprika, a medtech startup revolutionizing PAP treatment for patients with sleep apnea.

Marcy joined mHUB as an Expert in Residence, Entrepreneurship & Product Management in 2023 through the Catalyze Initiative. As with her own startups, Marcy evaluates all innovation projects agnostically through the lenses of software, hardtech, CPG, durables, softgoods, and/or service-design, resulting in a uniquely robust and differentiated model. Marcy looks at Product through the eyes of brand, pop culture, and user psychology.

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Jason Kunreuther | Business Strategy & Finance Management

Jason brings 25+ years of strategy and operational experience at mid-to-large size firms in the Financial Service and FinTech space. He has built and run businesses within larger companies and has a wealth of experience in identifying strong ideas and accelerating them from ideation through execution. Jason started his post-graduate work as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group and has worked at a combination of large banks (Barclays), mid-sized FinTech firms (PEAK6) and market makers (Citadel Securities) in Chief Strategy and Chief Operating Officer roles.

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