About Us
Meet Our Team
Andreas Lindenthal, Managing Partner
Andreas is the founder and managing partner of PLMadvisors. He is a passionate thought leader and recognized industry expert with over 30 years international, hands-on experience in innovation, new product development (NPD) and product lifecycle management (PLM).
Andreas has served over 100 leading global companies across various industries to sustainably improve their business results by helping them to drive innovation, increase productivity, shorten time-to-market, reduce costs, ensure compliance and improve product quality through the resourceful utilization of innovation, NPD and PLM practices, processes and technologies.
Andreas has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences of Zurich, Switzerland and an MBA with emphasis in Entrepreneurship from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Email: andreas.lindenthal@plmadvisors.com
Office: 888.800.4PLM
Mobile: 949.412.2300
Andrew Nygard, Sr. Advisor
Andrew is a seasoned business executive accustomed to driving strategic business change across numerous industries. He thrives on helping organizations achieve their unreasonable goals.
Andrew specializes in innovation strategy, portfolio management and optimization, process improvement, and the application of technology in support of process and business innovation. He has extensive experience working with clients to drive change at the executive and operational levels, instituting program and portfolio management systems, and re-architecting organizational decision making systems.
Email: andrew.nygard@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Eric Rose, Sr. Advisor
Eric is a product innovation and management specialist who helps companies move new products from opportunity into marketplace reality and improve the processes by which they do so. He has created and managed NPD processes in FDA and ISO controlled environments.
Eric is NPDP certified and has more than 30 years experience in product innovation, product development, manufacturing, commercialization, and project management. He has worked in the consumer, medical, and industrial product industries with companies ranging from startups through Fortune 500s. Eric is the named inventor on more than 80 published patents worldwide.
Eric is an Adjunct Professor of Product Innovation at Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount universities and mentors entrepreneurship students at USC. He is a regular guest speaker across the country on the topic of product innovation.
Email: eric.rose@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Gerry Miller, Sr. Advisor
Gerry brings over 25 years of experience in innovation, new product development and PLM primarily in the life sciences and discrete manufacturing industries.
His accomplishments include designing new product development stage gate processes, improving project and portfolio management practices, defining and implementing product cost and product lifecycle management strategies, and leading the design, selection and implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Portfolio Management (PPM) systems, including the integration of PLM with ERP systems to improve supply chain data integration, speed to market and cost efficiency.
His experience also includes planning and managing product development projects that spanned North America, Europe and Asia. Gerry has received accolades for his ability to work across the engineering, marketing, finance and IT leadership groups to increase collaboration and improve results.
Email: gerry.miller@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Ken Parekh, Sr. Advisor
Ken brings over 25 years of industry and innovation experience to his clients. He has extensive experience advising global high-technology businesses, strengthening organizational, process and technology capabilities and building and leading high performance teams in the fulfillment of innovation and operations transformation.
Ken spent several years with Korn/Ferry international as a Leadership Development Consultant and over 17 years with Deloitte Consulting as a leader in their Strategy and Operations practice. As a Principal at Deloitte, Ken founded their successful Semiconductor and High Technology practice serving clients and led their West Region Product Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management practice.
Email: ken.parekh@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Paul Stasi, Sr. Advisor
Paul has over 25 years of experience in the implementation of mission critical corporate initiatives, enterprise wide SW application implementation and installing offices of Program and Portfolio Management at multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Silicon Valley, including Applied Materials, as well as several successful medical device companies, including Johnson & Johnson, ev3, Discus, Boston Scientific and Guidant.
He has a passion for new product development (NPD), program and portfolio management (PPM), and product lifecycle management (PLM). His leadership roles have focused on business process design, increased effectiveness for project teams, reducing cycle time in product development and time-to-market, process compliance and portfolio and resource management design.
Email: paul.stasi@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Sarah Fisher, Sr. Advisor
Sarah is a ‘Change Agent’. She enjoys the collaboration with executives and thought leaders alike to spur companies and people to reach their highest potential. She has a deep practical understanding of small and large businesses and the pivotal growth phases in between. Her background is rooted in software and technology, and she has worked with Start-Ups (Net Perceptions), Russell 2000 (Stellent), and Fortune 500 (Oracle) Companies.
Sarah’s career and industry path have allowed her to wear many hats and contribute in different areas within a corporation. This wide range of knowledge allows her to serve in various organizational areas and project roles. She brings a unique combination of skill-sets and is attentive at every level of detail from point of contact to the final stages of implementation and training.
Her expertise includes Product Development, Corporate Operations & Administration, Project Management, Customer Relationship & Engagement Management, and Marketing & Communications. Sarah resides in Southern California where she lives an active & healthy lifestyle. She has a creative eye for design & art and understands the importance of cultivating relationships on a personal & professional level.
Email: sarah.fisher@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Santosh Sansuddi, Sr. Advisor
Santosh brings 18+ years of experience primarily in implementing PLM solutions in the Medical Device, Automotive, Aerospace and High-Tech/Electronics industries.
He expertise ranges from requirements gathering to solution design, development, deployments, upgrades, application integrations, data migrations, as well as testing and validation. Some of his major projects include the implementation of Part, CAD, Document, BOM, and Change management for various companies and DMR, DHF/ Requirement management implementation for Medical device companies.
Email: santosh.sansuddi@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM
Aaron Paluzzi, Sr. Advisor
Aaron has over 18 years of experience with Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter product line in a variety of industry verticals including Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Power Generation, High Tech, Manufacturing, and Consumer Packaged Goods.
Aaron has participated in every portion of implementing the Digital Twin in PLM, including gathering requirements from stakeholders, writing specification documents, implementing data model changes to accommodate customer data, creating workflows, importing data, integrating simulation tools, and integrations to MES and ERP systems.
Email: aaron.paluzzi@plmadvisors.com
Phone: (888) 800-4PLM