Benjamin Sepe

About Benjamin Sepe

Platform Director operating at the intersection of safety technology and commercial enablement. 10+ years of experience spanning design engineering, project management, product management, and software platform management. My technical foundation, execution capability, proven commercial aptitude, and team leadership skills enable me to work across organizations with an extremely high level of effectiveness, earn trust rapidly, and manage conflicting stakeholder needs while delivering technology solutions that are aligned with business needs.Currently leading the AnsellGUARDIAN platform, program, and product teams globally. AnsellGUARDIAN combines a software suite and commercial approach - leveraging a job hazard assessment to identify site risks, recommend safety solutions, and enable our customers to get better safety outcomes - all enabled by a powerful digital tool. Also founded and currently lead the Ansell SafeConnect team, a customer-facing digital portal for accessing and deploying AnsellGUARDIAN recommendations (think \"MyChart for Safety\"). Highlights- 10 Years Experience in SafetyTech, HealthTech, and Industrial Equipment Industries - Background in Design Engineering, with deep experience as a Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Developer, and SaaS Executive- Currently lead AnsellGUARDIAN Platform team of 4 Product Managers and Product Analysts spanning AnsellGUARDIAN, APEX, and SafeConnect solutions - Founder of Ansell SafeConnect, a first-of-its-kind SaaS product expanding customers AnsellGUARDIAN experience - Built Grid, a SafetyTech SaaS platform, as part of MSA\'s technology leadership team - Data Analytics experience and capability. Have Microsoft PowerBI dashboarding certification, formal statistics course completion, and Six Sigma greenbelt- Love building 0-to-1 prototypes of software and IoT solutions, and have built and shipped IoT devices from 0-1-scale in as little as 9 months- Hold multiple design patents for IoT platforms and safety products, Inventor of the Year and Product of the Year award recipient, GameChanger award recipient- Graduated top of MBA class (3.95 GPA)- International business experience, having spent 1 year working in the UK successfully implementing NPD stage gate processes at an acquisition Outside of work, I am perpetually in pursuit of the perfect cup of pour-over, am a fitness enthusiast ‍, love traveling with my wife to Europe, and enjoy exploring the local Pittsburgh trails with my Bernese Mountain Dog, Hudson Let\'s connect!

Experience

1. Director, Global Guardian Platform

   Ansell

   Mar 2025 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

Education

• Penn State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering

  2010 — 2014

• University of Pittsburgh

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy & Project Management

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Biomedical Engineering
• Lean Manufacturing
• Microsoft Office
• Performance Testing
• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Ventricular Assist Devices
• Fluid Dynamics
• Public Speaking
• Chemical Engineering
• Biotechnology
• Customer Service
• Fluid Simulation
• Data Analysis
• Bioengineering
• Engineering
• Microsoft Word
• Solidworks
• Laboratory
• Minitab
• Leadership
• Matlab
• Medical Devices