Sharon Dow

Managing Partner

2022 - Current

Emeritus Fund Lead & Investor

2021 - 2022

Judge & Advisor/Mentor

2020 - 2022

Independent Director, Operating Partner & Interim Executive

2008 - 2021

Strategic Executive / Managing Executive XIR or Startup CFO Sets vision, helps team realized vision, unlocks potential of talent in the organizations. Start-ups and growth, turnarounds, acquisitions, board advisory, carve outs, recapitalization. Solves complex problems. Uplifts and inspires to action. Governance, financial stewardship, operational improvements. Ability to work with ambiguity and build process from the ground up.

Leadership Team

2020 - 2021

Medical devices for all! Our mission is to ensure that everyone can access safe, effective and affordable medical devices. Fighting Global Medical Device Shortages, Air To All is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that coordinates the design, production, distribution and deployment of affordable medical devices. Serving those with unmet demand for medical devices in emergency, surge, rural or remote settings. Vision: Ensure that no one in the world dies for lack of an affordable medical device. Chore: End the global shortage of medical equipment. How: Deploy millions of low-cost medical devices for fighting health threats globally. Near-term: Deliver respirators and ventilators to mitigate the global Covid-19 crisis through 2024. NIOSH and FDA approved device development and deployment.

Advisor, Executive & Finance

2019 - 2021

Global Director Operations & Account Managment, Hi-Tech Sector

2004 - 2005

Lead global services development, supply chain solutions, and contract negotiation for the operations producing world’s best known cell phones, laptops, servers, modems, copiers, network devices, telecom, and registers brands. Consumer electronics, telecommunication and electronics sector contract manufacturing, distribution, systems implementation, consulting, network analysis and operations startup, import and inter-modal transportation.

Director and Managing Executive

1997 - 2004

Various Executive and Senior Management positions: Director, Marketing and Services; Director Supply Chain Operations; Managing Executive; Internal Consultant / Business Controls Analyst. Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA 1997-2004 $20 Billion, Leading Domestics Forest products manufacture, market and distribution company. Spearheaded $5 billion division’s culture change, growth, process improvement, and supply chain solution selling strategy with Chief Operating Officer. Boosted sales productivity in a mature transaction selling environment and introduced a bias for customer focused, consultative, supply chain management, complete with IS tools, talent planning and process reengineering. Included creation of Distribution Services to increase supply chain efficiency and optimize capacity utilization.

Certification Committee

1997 - 2000

Brought Distribution and Supply Management to the certification body of knowledge. Instrumental in upgrading the credential with Constraints Management, Business Planning and Inventory Management. Obtained support and buy-in for the changes and served as worldwide subject matter expert contributor. The association for supply chain management. APICS merged the world leading Operations Management society with the Supply-Chain Council in 2014 and with American Society of Transportation and Logistics (AST&L) in 2015.

Site Operations

1990 - 1991

Site Installation for Hydro Dam Operation, Environmental management.