Robert Garthwait

About Robert Garthwait

Robert is a fully integrated and multi-talented creative, with a passion for great design, a superb aesthetic sense, and an exceptional eye for detail. He delivers focused, innovative, and insight-rich design, branding & marketing solutions that engage target audiences and amplify lasting success for a diverse portfolio of clients including musical artists, local retailers and large multinational private companies. With his roots in manufacturing and engineering, Robert is a brilliant problem solver who uses his expertise and enthusiasm to think and create in not just a visual manner but also in a panoptic way that is future oriented and brand focused centered around a very strong strategic process of research. Robert is a graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, where he studied both product and graphic design as well as engineering. Robert founded and works for his own creative house as full stack designer and consultant.\"I wanna wake up every morning with a passion. I wanna wake up with a smile on my face and be able to say I love what I do. You can dream about it or you go out and make it happen.\"

Experience

1. Executive Vice President

   The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

   Jun 2014 — Present

   Fourth generation leadership of The Cly-Del Manufacturing Company dedicated to developing strategies that are linked to execution plans for a new era of American Manufacturing. Setting overall strategic direction as well as creating organization structures and operating models that help make said strategies actionable. Assessing M&A and new business incubation opportunities to support diversified expansion into new markets. Focused on growth opportunities as well as operational excellence aimed to uphold the manufacturing tradition of Cly-Del established in 1939.

Education

• Lehigh University

  Bachelor's Degree, Design Arts, Product Design, Engineering and Entrepreneurship minor

  2010 — 2014