ARM Institute creates 3 new management positions

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The ARM (Superior Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute has introduced the promotion of three present staff: Dr. Charles (Chuck) Brandt has been promoted from Sr. Director, Know-how Growth to Vice President, Technical Initiatives. Arnold Kravitz’s function has been modified from Chief Know-how Officer to Chief Innovation Officer, and Suzanne (Suzy) Teele has been promoted from Head of Advertising and marketing & Communications to Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Outreach.

“These newly created roles replicate every particular person’s increasing obligations and contributions to the ARM Institute because the group advances ahead,” famous Ira Moskowitz, ARM Institute CEO, “The ARM Institute crew and our Board of Administrators congratulates Chuck, Arnie, and Suzy on their new roles and thanks them for his or her continued dedication to the ARM Institute mission.”

These organizational modifications replicate the rising range of the ARM Institute’s capabilities. Study extra about every crew member and their new function beneath:

Arnie Kravitz: Chief Innovation Officer

Kravitz joined the ARM Institute in 2018 because the Institute’s Chief Know-how Officer. On this function, he drove the creation and execution of the ARM Institute technical technique. He has spent over 39 years designing, growing, and manufacturing a big portfolio of merchandise that embrace weapon techniques and countermeasures, aquatic robots, autonomous automobiles, augmented, and digital actuality imaginative and prescient techniques, self-learning inference engine-based techniques, industrial shopper electronics, cryptographic and counter cryptographic gadgets. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins College and has vital expertise exploiting rising instruments and strategies to quickly rework new concepts into manufactured merchandise.

Kravitz is an skilled C-Suite govt and entrepreneur serving as CEO, COO, President, and Vice President of quite a few fortune 500 firms, and served on a number of company boards. He holds a grasp’s diploma in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

On this new function, he’ll drive the ARM Institute’s innovation actions, to evolve and develop the group, to attain its steady mission of: rising U.S. international competitiveness, by accelerating the invention, and transition of revolutionary options to the market, growing new partnerships, launching ventures, and securing new alternatives that make robots, AI, and autonomy extra accessible to U.S. producers and the protection trade.

Dr. Chuck Brandt: Vice President, Technical Initiatives

Dr. Brandt joined the ARM Institute in 2018 as Deputy Director, Know-how Growth earlier than being promoted to Sr. Director, Know-how Growth earlier this 12 months, and now being promoted to Vice President, Technical Initiatives. He joined the ARM Institute from Innovation Works, the place he was the Vice President of Know-how Packages. Previous to becoming a member of Innovation Works, he was the CTO on the Know-how Collaborative, each Pittsburgh-based organizations. In these and prior roles at Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse, and Raytheon, Dr. Brandt has showcased his capability to coordinate expertise initiatives, early-stage product growth, and university-based commercialization.

Dr. Brandt holds a Ph.D. in Digital Supplies from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the College of Illinois. He has introduced over 50 papers and holds 6 patents.

In his new function, Dr. Brandt will lead the ARM Institute’s technical technique and program planning, proceed to handle the ARM Institute program administration workplace, and lead the Mill 19 robotic engineering plans and funding technique.

Suzy Teele: Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Outreach

Teele joined the ARM Institute shortly after its creation in 2017 and has been instrumental in growing the ARM Institute’s nationwide model and rising its consortium of 330+ organizations. She has over twenty years of expertise in enterprise technique, product administration, buyer acquisition and retention, advertising and marketing, gross sales, and enterprise growth. Teele was additionally an govt at a number of software program firms, driving income progress as a COO or CMO.

She has been acknowledged as an Indiana College of PA (IUP) Distinguished Alumni and has been inducted into the IUP Enterprise Corridor of Fame. Different accolades embrace a Better Pittsburgh Athena Award finalist and BusinessWomen First Award. Teele helped to start out the Pittsburgh Chapter of WELD (Girls for Financial and Management Growth) and has coached many women-owned companies. She can also be an advisory board member for the Pittsburgh Robotics Community.

On this new function, Teele will proceed to drive the ARM Institute engagement technique and ongoing efforts for sustainability, construct relationships with key stakeholders, and oversee the ARM Institute product growth technique.