Francis, Philip H.

Philip H. Francis is currently a Managing Partner for Management Consulting at Mascon Information Technologies. Prior to that, he was Director of Advanced Manufacturing Technology at Motorola and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric (Square D) and an executive officer at AT&T. While working at the Southwest Research Institute in engineering research, he published more than seventy articles in technical journals and wrote the first book on R&D management. He also served as a Professor and Chair at Illinois Institute of Technology.