Hi all — glad to be here. I'm a manufacturing operating executive with 25 years building, scaling, and running manufacturing businesses across aerospace/defense, automotive, industrial, and emerging-hardware sectors. Most relevant for this community: I built a $100M greenfield manufacturing operation from the ground up and scaled the team from 12 to 150, and I've run multi-process plants spanning machining, forging, heat treat, plating, and assembly — owning P&L, capital deployment, and the cost/capacity/launch outcomes that customer wins depend on. I'm developing a value-chain consolidation thesis in Northeast precision manufacturing: acquire a precision CNC machining anchor, then integrate adjacent stages — heat treat, coating, specialty machining, tooling — to capture inter-stage margin and build an integrated regional platform. The tailwind is structural: a generation of succession-less owners retiring into a shortage of operators who can actually run and grow what capital acquires. Who I'd like to connect with here: Capital partners — family offices, independent-sponsor backers, and lower-middle-market PE interested in operator-led manufacturing consolidation Funds / sponsors seeking an operating partner or EIR with deep, hands-on manufacturing experience Fellow operators and searchers in the manufacturing ETA / independent-sponsor space — always happy to compare notes and learn from people further down this road Honest about where I am: my strength is operating capability and value-chain depth; I'm building toward operating ownership and bringing the operating hands plus the thesis, partnering on capital and deal structure. If any of this resonates, I'd genuinely welcome a conversation — feel free to reply or message me.