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Marine Propulsion

Joe Grez, founder and CEO. EP Carry was developed from funding-to-launch within 6 months, with a carefully chosen team of contractors in design, marketing, electronics, firmware, wireless, manufacturing, operations, and supply chain.

The 20 lb., International Award-Winning EP Carry is distinguished as the lightest complete system and it's, by far, the easiest-to-use outboard, solving 12 use-case dilemmas never before addressed in the segment.

EP Carry was viewed 68% more times than any other outboard brand at the 2021 Online Seattle Boat Show, beating even established brands like Mercury Marine.

Hair and Skin Devices for Loreal

Between 2013 and 2017, Joe Grez worked with L’Oréal to create 14 new product concepts in beard care, skin care, skin treatments, hair care and hair coloring. Of particular note is Colorsonic; a new product category in hair coloring and hair treatments that was designed, tested, and ready for phase-1 scaling in 2 years. Success factors included a strong vision soundly rooted in the consumer voice, and timed phasing of decision making supported by marketing, tech, testing, and management.

E Series platform of toothbrushes

Sonicare's seminal platform used a side-to-side resonant motion. While this was superior in disrupting biofilms, the brush head was conidered too large and the side-to-side motion of the hard plastic head could rattle on the teeth.

A twisting motion was proposed but the concept was considered too expensive.

Joe Grez created a prototype drivetrain that showed a safe pathway to a financially secure decision. The new platform improved plaque performance with a smaller head that did not vibrate the teeth and lead to accelerated sales growth and higher margins.

AirFloss high speed droplet device.

Joe led development of the droplet cleaning principle that led to the Philips Sonicare Airfloss product.

Triton platform of toothbrushes

With increased competition in the 'Sonic' toothbrush segment, Joe Grez was chosen to lead the concept team charged with creating a new flagship for Sonicare, again. The Triton platform was also Sonicare's first "planned growth" platform; coordenating with consumer, tech and architecture teams, this new platform represented a roadmap for future growth in design, marketing, finance, supply chain and engineering, and grew Sonicare's sales by multiples.

Air Countermeasures

Alloy Surfaces LLC is a Chemring business.

Joe Grez developed packaging and dispensing methods for air countermeasures still protecting pilots, co-developed towed countermeasures in cooperation with Raytheon E-Systems, and developed equipment for application and web processing of special materials for these countermeasures.

Disposable medical diagnostics

Platform is based on an enzymatic switch technology. Enzymatics was acquired by OraSure.

Joe Grez's work included:

System for the collection and separation of a precise quantity of blood from a finger prick, transferred through a filter to remove red blood cells without hemolization.
An extremely precise capillary formed over a strip of reagent coated plastic using injection molded parts that produced the 3% CV required for medical products.
Web handling and coating equipment that produced a precisely linear dried concentration-gradient for use in the capillaries above.

Photovoltaics

In the late 1980's, Chronar was at the forefront of amorphous cell technology. Its goal was to produce Complete encasulated solar panels at a cost of $1.00 per Watt and we came close. As a new graduate, Joe Grez developed, built, and managed a demonstration plant. And then went on to manage the interconnection and encapsulation development program for their large scale outdoor panels. 33 year old Chronar panels are still producing electricity within their efficiency claims made in the '80s.