Jim is Senior Partner at Principia Partners, and has nearly 20 years of consulting experience in the chemicals and materials industries. He has conducted and directed numerous assignments on market and sales strategies, acquisition and divestiture analyses, and strategic business planning for global materials suppliers and leading fabricated component producers and OEMs. He has specialized in assisting clients with their market-entry planning, product repositioning and pricing strategies.

He has specialized in evaluating intermaterial and interprocess competition to assist clients with market entry planning, product repositioning, and pricing strategies. Prior to joining Principia, Jim was a Project Manager in the Market Assessment practice at Charles River Associates. He was also employed in the Advanced Materials and Plastics practices at Kline & Company.

Jim began his consulting career in product liability litigation involving construction and industrial products. His work focused on investigating equipment and system failures in the medical and aerospace business. Jim is a recognized expert in metallurgy and has provided court testimonial expertise in several cases. He holds a BA in chemistry and economics from Franklin & Marshall College, and also earned MS and PE degrees in materials science from Columbia University. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Society of Plastics Engineers, and ASM International.