Steven M. Ogintz has over 36 years of diversified business experience, gained primarily at DuPont Engineered Parts. He recently retired as the Global Supply Chain Manger for the VESPEL polyimide parts business. Steve held leadership positions in marketing, manufacturing, and supply chain. Steve has extensive experience in leading small- to medium-sized businesses serving high performance industrial markets. In these roles he led or participated in strategic planning activities to identify and capture market opportunities by defining the relevant market space and setting and implementing tactical plans to capture the profitable opportunities.

Steve has led new market development activities that resulted in more than tenfold revenue growth, to 50% of the business unit’s revenue in 4 years, including identification of key market attributes, marketing communication strategies, and identification and development of appropriate market channels. He held positions with increasing responsibility in two different product groups. In both businesses, he led marketing activities to identify and secure profitable segment leadership while withdrawing from undesirable segments.

Steve has held a number of operations/supply chain roles in a mid-sized parts business where he was accountable for operational and capital budgeting, supply and capacity planning, and capital project implementation. He led a diversified supply chain team of nearly thirty individuals including the Planning Team and the Customer Service Team. Accountabilities included customer service, accounts receivable, inventory, external processing, internal secondary processing, and shipping and receiving.

In his last assignment, Steve led the supply chain for four global parts plants and one resin plant that supplied high performance parts to the jet engine, automotive, semi-conductor, and diversified component industries. He led global sales and operational planning, including management of inventories to meet business objectives for customer service reliability. The business successfully implemented SAP enterprise resource planning during this period, including the use of the Advanced Planner and Optimizer to make customer promises based on available capacity.

Steve holds Bachelor and Master of Chemical Engineering degrees from Cornell University and an MBA from University of Delaware, obtained while working for DuPont. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer.

Steve serves as Treasurer of Jewish Family Service of Delaware and is a member of the Newark Symphony Orchestra.