LAUZUN CONSULTING GROUP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• President
• Bright Automotive As VP of Product Development
• Leader of Their Customer Engineering

Dave is President of Lauzun Consulting Group LLC, which he founded in January of 2016. The Lauzun Consulting Group can serve the clients' needs for both managerial and technical consulting. Services include: due diligence assessments for company acquisitions; organizational consulting for start-up companies; technical consulting for electric and hybrid-electric systems; the creation or refinement of sustainability programs; and operational improvements for Product Development organizations. With over 25 years' experience in leading large-scale product development efforts, Dave possesses a rare mixture of large-company disciplines and start-up company breadth and flexibility. Dave began his career at Chrysler Corporation in 1983 where he held a number of management positions in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality Systems. Significant Engineering experiences include all functional parts of the vehicle (Exterior, Interior, Chassis and Powertrain), as well as bumper-to-bumper leadership experiences as the Program Manager for all mid-size and large products and Development Manager for all mid-sized vehicles. Dave's Manufacturing experiences include management assignments at both Assembly and Stamping Plants, as well as the development of Chrysler's home-grown version of the Toyota Production System. He gained valuable experiences in Total Quality Management as the Engineering/Quality Manager in an Assembly Plant; Quality Manager of the entire Jeep platform; and leader of Chrysler's first full-vehicle Design for 6 Sigma (DFSS) program. In 2008 Dave joined Bright Automotive as VP of Product Development. At Bright he was responsible for leading the design and development effort for the world's first all-new hybrid electric service/delivery van. In January of 2010 Dave was promoted to an Executive Vice President at Bright and assumed responsibilities for Sales, Marketing, Purchasing and Manufacturing in addition to Product Development. He later assumed responsibilities for Bright's Engineering Services Group ("eSolutions") and gained experiences leading a P&L operation. In his 4 years at Bright Dave led almost every corporate group at one time or another and gained experiences in venture capital, negotiations, government relations, business development, consulting, and other functions in addition to vehicle electrification. After the untimely demise of Bright Automotive in 2012, Dave joined Cummins as leader of their Customer Engineering organization. At Cummins Dave led the 200-person Off Highway Customer Engineering team, and was responsible for working with the customers to optimize the installation of the engine into the customers' machines and vehicles. Dave also served as the "Functional Excellence Leader" with the responsibility of improving the tools and processes for all 1500 engineers around the globe. While at Cummins, Dave also founded a "Products-In-Use" initiative to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of existing Cummins fleets and thereby significantly reduce global CO2 production.