Phil Baker Solana Beach, California 92075
Phil Baker has extensive international experience in design, manufacturing and business development. He established relationships with companies in the Far East in order to implement new product development strategies for Apple Computer, Seiko Instruments, Polaroid, Think Outside and others. He also initiated and successfully completed development, manufacturing and business relations with many other companies, including Sigma, Olympus, Ricoh, Nikon, Hitachi, Sanyo, Pioneer, Mamiya, GEHK, Asahi Pentax, Sunpak, Inventec, GVC, Acer, Quanta Computer, Seiko Epson, Kyocera, Panasonic, Sharp, V-Tech and Nam Tai.
EXPERIENCE
- 2002 - Present
PHIL BAKER CONSULTING
Principal
- Provide consulting services in the areas of product and market development to a select number of clients in the consumer and computer product areas. Current areas of activity include computers, printers, audio, wireless, digital imaging, computer peripherals, and accessories. Clients range from the leading companies in the computer industry to small startup companies to individual entrepreneurs.
- 1998 - 2002
THINK OUTSIDE, INC., Carlsbad, CA
President & COO
Director/Member of Board of Directors
- Co-founded and built the company from 0 to over $40M in revenues in 3 years.
- Staffed and managed all operational activities, including sales, marketing, finance, operations and engineering.
- Developed marketing distribution arrangements with Palm Computing, Sony Electronics, Kyocera, Targus International, Fellowes and others.
- Conceptualized, designed, and built the company as a highly-leveraged organization focused on time-to-market, maximizing use of investment proceeds, relying on a small number of employees, and leveraging on major manufacturing and marketing partners.
- Created, selected and recruited the board of directors.
- Established manufacturing and development alliances in Taiwan and China.
- 1997 - 1998
PRODUCT PARTNERS, INC., Solana Beach, CA
Principal
- Provided product development and marketing services to high-technology companies worldwide, with clients in the US, Far East and Israel.
- 1996 - 1997
PROXIMA CORPORATION, San Diego, CA
Vice President, Product Development
- Managed the development and sourcing of products from Japan.
- Directed hardware and software engineering organization with an annual budget of $9M; introduced 6 new products in 9 months, which produced revenue of $80M/yr.
- Developed strategic partnerships with companies in Norway, US and Israel to reduce development costs, expand product line and provide new product technologies.