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Prior to this role, Kai was responsible for Americas Business Development at InFocus, and redefined their retail and home theater projection business in the Americas. He developed multiple new SKUs, and created over $12 million in new product revenue in these new retail channels.
In October 2000, he created the Desktop Monitors Group at Planar adding over $15 million dollars in revenues, and creating 17 new products. He followed this up with their Plasma Division 2 years later. Prior to this he was the Director of Global OEM Sales and Marketing at Energizer.
He is an acknowledged authority on consumer electronics, batteries, fuel cells, PDAs, handhelds, TFT-AMLCDs, computer hardware, LCD-TVs and Plasma display products. His previous 3 positions included leading successful multi-million dollar new division start-ups, as well as existing division turn-arounds in each of these fields. Kai has held senior management positions at Planar Systems, Energizer, Gillette/Duracell, and SC Johnson and Son and is an active member of the teaching faculty at the University of Phoenix MBA program.