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Topics in Entrepreneurial Technical Leadership (Online – Free)
About the event
Agenda: 6:30 – 7:00 PM networking
Presentation: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Q/A: 8:00 – 8:30 PM
Success is an essential part of most collective and personal advancements and a powerful driving force for growing businesses profitably.
In most cases, success is achieved by effective leaders who empower their teams to produce continuously superior results. Particularly, the companies operating in the space of technology and engineering are driven to succeed by strong, accomplished, and determined technical leaders.
It is widely recognized that engineering is not only a technical activity. Engineering was and is foremost a fundamental business activity with significant impact on the company’s performance.
The talk is based on the “Lead to Succeed” seminar series offered by SXN International LLC. The presentation will focus on some practical attitudes and skills that an effective leader should master to bring his technical team to success.
This talk is applicable to business in general. You don’t need to be a consultant to benefit from coming to this talk.
Speaker
Principal & Founder, SXN International, llc, an Engineering & Leadership Consultancy
About the Speaker
Sorin Marcovici is the founder and principal of SXN INTERNATIONAL LLC an engineering and leadership consultancy in Lexington, MA.
Until 2018 he was the President and CEO of XLV Diagnostics Inc. in Thunder Bay, Ontario, a medical imaging company that developed the first electro-optic detector based digital mammography machine. Before that, until September 2011 he was the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA.
Sorin holds a Physicist-Engineer degree from the Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, Romania, and a MD in Electrical Engineering, with Major in Computers, from Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
During his many years with Analogic, Sorin held various technical and managerial positions of continuously increased responsibility and was the General Manager of several operating divisions. He was also the President of Anrad Corporation, the Canadian wholly owned subsidiary of Analogic in Montreal, Quebec where he developed the most advanced, direct conversion, x-ray detectors for digital mammography.
Beside his extensive, world-wide experience as a high-tech executive, Sorin has deep knowledge in multiple technical and scientific fields: electronics, mathematics, material science, and physics. His contributions encompass developing and launching continuous series of innovative products for medical imaging instrumentation ranging from various detectors to ultrasound systems, digital radiography and electronics for CT-scanners. He holds thirteen patents, has presented numerous papers at technical conferences, and has lectured world-wide on precision instrumentation.
Sorin’s broad interests in product development and technical leadership translate also in his active participation to innovative engineering leadership development programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University in Boston.
Sorin is an IEEE Fellow recognized “For contribution to and leadership in development of amorphous Selenium technologies and flat panel, X-ray detectors”.