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Biography, Dan Feinberg

 

Daniel (Baer) Feinberg

Principal and Founder, Fein-Line Associates, Inc.

Founding Partner, Quantum Performance Group, LLC

Dan Feinberg is President and CEO of Fein-Line Associates, Inc., a consulting firm focused on the electronic interconnect (printed wiring board) and assembly industries and a founding Partner in the Quantum Performance Group, LLC, a market research firm.  Dan was formerly president of Morton Electronic Materials (MEM or Dynachem), a $220 million division of Morton International, Inc., and a group vice president of the parent company, Morton International until its acquisition by Rohm and Haas in 1999.  His experience makes him uniquely suited to assist electronic industry companies in today’s global, highly competitive environment.

Through a focused, global restructuring acquisition and divestiture plan, Dan led a turn around that returned MEM to significant profitably. Under Dan's market leadership, MEM built a powerful presence in its global market with an impressive technology portfolio.  He championed the MEM passive materials research effort and created an environment that fostered innovation, leading to the introduction of a number of hi tech, advanced materials.

Dan’s engineering, sales, marketing, M&A and general management background, and his experience in Asia and Europe, was demonstrated in his ability to restructure and “turn around” a business. Often described as a “Street Fighter,” Dan is at home in a battle to gain market share and lead a team in accomplishing difficult tasks. 

During Dan’s career, he has served in various management positions including engineering director at a large PWB fabricator to various marketing and sales management positions, including V.P., Sales and Marketing, Executive V.P. and President of Morton Electronic Materials (Dynachem).

Dan has authored numerous articles, presented papers at various industry events including the world conference in Tokyo and was keynote speaker at the 1999 and 2003 PCMI conferences and the 1998 NEMI spring meeting. He has present technical papers at various AES seminars as well as the spring EIPC conference in Niece in 1990.   He has organized and hosted various seminars including a NAFTA trade seminar and trade mission, a seminar on exporting to Asia and a highly attended tutorial on unfair trade practices and dumping. Dan writes a monthly column for CircuiTree magazine, is on the Board Authority advisory board and has been its contributing editor, he has also had articles published in P.C. Fab and Future Circuits.

Dan is a key figure and well known in the PWB industry.  He has been a member of IPC since 1968, has received its prestigious Chairman’s award and was presented with the IPC’s special achievement award in 1994 and its Public Policy Champion award in June 2000. He was the founding chair of the IPC supplier’s council and championed the founding of IPC Expo.  He presently chairs the IPC Government Relations Committee and sits on the board of directors of the California Circuits Association, and LaserVia Corp. He has been active in charitable organizations in Orange County including chair of the United Way leadership effort and underwriting chair for the Orange County ACS Cattle Barron’s Ball. His hobbies include power boating and extreme computing.


For More Information Contact:

Fein-Line Associates, Inc.
P.O.Box 73355, San Clemente, CA 92673-0112
Tel: (949) 498-7866
FAX: (949) 498-5738
Internet: baer@feinline.com

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1/28/2007

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