Jyothish Daniel

About Jyothish Daniel

Multi-dimensional C-Level executive, passionate about building and growing businesses in the climate resiliency, industrial products and infrastructure/power/energy sectors. Experienced in applying strong leadership, management, operational and commercial skills in startup, growth and turnaround situations. History of achieving increasing market share, expanding geographic footprint, driving improved profitability and cost reduction. Proven ability to attract, coach and inspire high caliber talent at all levels to achieve success. Passionate about building high performance teams. Demonstrated Corporate Development track record in implementing management operating systems, covering all functional areas, enabling successful rapid and sustainable business growth. KEY CAPABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE Driving Product Innovation and New Market Entry - Moved Portadam into the fast growing Climate Resiliency sector, leveraging water control experience to create new Flood Protection solutions. Drove design and launch of an innovative product suite for the North American market. Driving Growth and Corporate Development - Drove development and implementation of corporate-wide management operating system (covering Operations, HR and Finance functions) for The Conti Group. Increasing Market Share and Building Great Teams - Started up and initially drove Sundurance Energy division. Employee number One of unit - recruited, trained and coached entire team. Improving Profitability and Cost Reduction - Drove turnaround of financial and operating performance in Blinds To Go\'s manufacturing operations by implementing Strategic Sourcing and Lean Manufacturing. Expanding Geographic Footprint - Drove Mackie Automotive’s first international expansion, recruiting entire team and establishing all required business processes for a Lean Manufacturing facility in the UK. • Start-up, Turnaround and Growth Environments • Margin Enhancement & Revenue Growth • Climate Resiliency • Flood Protection • Lean Manufacturing Operations/Logistics • Topgrading Talent • Power and Renewable Energy Projects • Infrastructure Project Development • Business Due Diligence • Engineering/Construction • Project Due Diligence • Business Development • Project Finance • Corporate Strategy • People and Team Management • Organization Design/Development

Experience

1. CEO at Portadam, C-suite Advisor, Board Member

   Portadam

   Jan 2015 — Present · Williamstown, NJ, US

   Portadam provides water control solutions in the areas of Water Diversion, Flood Protection and Water Storage primarily across the United States and Canada. Portadam\'s over 40 years of expertise and DNA in the understanding and control of water/water flows sets us apart from all others. With over executed projects we have a real resume of actually managing and protecting locations from water using our systems. Starting with a Safety minded approach we custom tailor solutions for each of our clients based on their particular needs. Our fully engineered and tested solutions (ANSI 2510) include systems that have been vetted & used by the US Army Corps. Portadam\'s solutions are highly flexible and completely modular and can be easily deployed in almost any configuration across uneven terrain or slopes. Contact us if you need to control water around your critical infrastructure at

Education

• Harvard Business School

  MBA, General Management with focus on Strategy & Operations

  1996 — 1997

• University of Waterloo

  B.A.Sc. Honours, Mechanical Engineering

  1987 — 1992