Thomas R. Weschler

Several common threads running through Mr. Weschler’s career have provided excellent training for his role at Strategic Consulting:

• All of his work experience has been in the field of industrial measurement and diagnostics.
• Most of the situations have involved launch of new products and technologies.
• Most situations have required the building of organizations for growth.
• All have required the development of winning business strategies.

Before he founded Strategic Consulting, Mr. Weschler established IDEXX’s Food & Environmental Division, and served as its president from 1992 to 1996. During this period, the Division grew from $1 million in revenues to a market leadership position in the food and environmental diagnostics market. He directed the introduction of several innovative technology-based products (SNAP, LIGHTNING, COLIERT), each of which gained dominant market share positions.

Before IDEXX, Mr. Weschler served as vice president and general manager of Roche/ CompuChem, a leading US environmental testing lab network. He has also been president/COO of Orion Research, Inc., a world leader in electrochemical-based measurement systems, and president/general manager of Fiskars Electronics, a telecommunications power equipment and instrumentation company.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Weschler founded and served as president of MicroPure, a manufacturer of in-line process instrumentation for detection of particles and other impurities. Before MicroPure, Mr. Weschler was group product manager at Millipore Corporation, a leading analytical filtration company, specializing in water microbiology, beverage microbiology, and general industrial applications.

Mr. Weschler received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1975 and a B.S. in economics/accounting from Villanova University in 1973.

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