James T. Kindley

James T. Kindley 2958 Seabrook Island Road John’s Island, SC 29455 469 261 6134 [email protected]

EDUCATION Harvard University, Boston, MA 1977 MBA Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 1971 MS Product Design Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 1968 BS Industrial Design

AWARDS SMU/COX Distinguished Teacher Award (MBA and undergraduate programs) Received for: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of South Carolina Moore School of Business Columbia, SC Spring 2011 Adjunct Professor of Marketing For MKTG 465 – (section overload)

Trident Technical College North Charleston, SC 2009-present Adjunct Professor of Business Courses taught: Various Marketing, Business, and Management required and elective courses

Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business Dallas, TX 1996-present Senior Lecturer Marketing (Adjunct Professor of Marketing from 2009 to present) Courses taught: Fundamentals of Marketing A– required course for PMBAs and MBAs Fundamentals of Marketing B – elective course for PMBAs and MBAs Product and Brand Management – elective course for graduate students Marketing Implementation – elective course Marketing Strategy – elective course Marketing Pricing Implementation – elective course

Fundamentals of Marketing – Honors course for undergraduates

Building and Leading an Innovative Enterprise – specialized course for SMU/COX Executive MBAs

Additionally - Develop and teach specialized courses for COX Executive Education Programs and provide custom programs in conjunction with COX EXED Formulating and Implementing Exceptional Business Strategy – executive program offered twice yearly. Innovation and New Product Development Thinking Creatively and Entrepreneurially (customized courses for companies such as AstraZeneca, Texas Instruments, Ben E. Keith, Trane, Lennox) Page 2 Kindley Opportunity Selection - course developed around a proprietary framework used for selecting among multiple opportunities to increase new product successes. Better Ideation with UNBLOCKS –workshop developed around proprietary “multi- dimensional segmentation technique” for enhanced idea creation.

Adjunct Professor of Marketing (SMU) 1980-1985

Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 1972-1975 Instructor of Design

RELATED ACTIVITIES Article Recently Published “Visions” – PDMA publication June 2007 “Why Innovation is Not Producing More New Product Successes”

Reviewer and Author for Harvard Business School Press: “Brief Cases in Marketing” 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Co-author of teaching note for “Mountain Man Brewing Company”

Research interests: New product development and innovation, consumer products. Specific focus at improving front-end ideation and project selection process dynamics for higher new product success rates and improved investment returns.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UNBLOCKS John’s Island SC 2009 – present This firm was previously – Know/Go – founded in 2000 in Dallas Principal Founder of this “consultative/teaching” firm specializing in providing companies with assistance in improving their new product development programs. Provide workshops, seminars, consulting for new product teams. Programs customized and delivered at company sites. Clients include: Lennox, Lockheed, SmartBridge, Jokari, Heelys, Easy Gardener, Trane, Base4, and others. Mr. Kindley has received several patents for products developed under his leadership at Base4, Jokari, and HannahDirect.

American Designer Pottery Dallas, TX 1996-1999 President Led start-up company that manufactured unique polyurethane pottery that mimicked terra-cotta. Sales in 1996 of $800k; sales of more than $30 million in 1999. Sold company to Fiskars in 1999.

Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company Fort Worth, TX 1990-1995 VP of Marketing Instrumental in revitalizing classic workwear brand and helping implement strategic focus still successfully in place. Managed all marketing functions.

Bissell, Inc Grand Rapids, MI 1988-1990 VP Marketing

, Kindley Rubbermaid, Inc. Wooster, OH 1985-1988 Group Product Manager

Jokari, Inc. Dallas, TX 1977-1985 Director of Marketing

DesignSense Atlanta, GA 1972-1975 Principal, Industrial Designer

RCA Camden, NJ 1969-1972 Industrial Designer

ACTIVITIES Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company Fort Worth, TX 2001- present Director

Heelys, Inc. Dallas, TX 2006-2008 Director eShipGlobal, Inc. Irving, TX 2009- present Advisor, Director

VisionOnSite, Inc. Forney, TX 2007- present Advisor

Have fourteen patents for various new products, three more are pending