Fractional product development leadership
Twenty years getting physical products engineered, costed, sourced, tooled and onto shelves at Target, Walmart, CVS and Amazon. Now doing it one to two days a week for consumer brands that need a head of product development and aren't ready to hire one.
01 — Sound familiar
If two or more of these are true, we should talk.
I don't do brand, marketing, logos or websites. You've got that covered — that's usually the problem.
02 — Track record
01 / Shipped
50+ consumer products to national retail. Twenty disruptive innovations across Oster, Crockpot, Sunbeam and Holmes. Four issued patents and five provisionals. Connected-home products built with Belkin.
02 / Scaled
Joined Fridababy as a project manager, left as Sr. Director of Engineering & Quality — sourcing, engineering, quality and project management under one roof. Revenue grew 300%. Launched a second brand, Fridamom.
03 / Saved
Seven figures removed through Lean and Six Sigma on live production lines. R&D across seven US manufacturing sites. Built Jarden Life Sciences into the third-largest thermal packaging company in the country inside a year.
Selected work
Developed under my engineering leadership at Newell/Jarden (2011–2018) and Fridababy (2018–2021). Product images belong to their respective brands.
Ask for the full portfolio03 — How it works
Week 1 – 3
I go through your BOMs, supplier agreements, tooling and development calendar and tell you where your cost and your time are actually going. Most founders are surprised by at least one number.
Week 4 – 6
Re-quote what needs re-quoting, qualify alternate suppliers, rebuild the development calendar backwards from your retail date, and put the launch on a schedule that survives contact with a factory.
Ongoing
I own the pipeline, manage the suppliers, hold the launch dates and sit in on every decision where engineering costs money. You get your evenings back.
Figure 01 — What a teardown finds
A real example from my own brand: a rigid display box modelled at $22 landed, quoted at 250 units. Tariff and freight are where the plan quietly breaks.
Source: my own supplier research and live tariff analysis, With Love, 2026. Illustrative of a category-typical gap, not a client engagement.
04 — Engagements
Prices are published because it saves us both a conversation.
Six weeks, fixed scope. A full teardown of your cost, suppliers, tooling and calendar. You keep the quotes and the schedule whether or not we carry on.
One to two days a week. I run your development pipeline, manage your suppliers, own your launch dates, and sit in on every decision where engineering costs money.
For independent sponsors, search funds and acquirers. Product and manufacturing diligence before you close, then running product and operations after.
With Love
With Love is a consumer brand I'm developing — a box that keeps a new mother fed through the night feeds. I built the first one by hand for my wife.
It has a brand bible, a costed bill of materials, a live tariff analysis and a supplier strategy, because that is what it actually takes and I know what it takes.
That's why I'm useful to you. I'm not advising from a deck — I'm in it at the same time you are.
For sponsors, searchers & acquirers
If you're buying a consumer-products or light-manufacturing business, I do product and manufacturing diligence before you close — BOMs, tooling, supplier concentration, cost structure, what the seller isn't telling you — and then run product and operations after.
Twenty years in the category, a portfolio of national-retail launches, and a track record of taking seven figures out of production lines. Cash plus equity, structured deal by deal.
05 — About
I'm a mechanical engineer who spent twenty years inside consumer products — first designing them, then running the teams that do.
Eight years at Jarden and Newell Brands: head engineer on Ball, Diamond and Bicycle, then Engineering Program Manager running R&D across seven manufacturing sites, then Principal Development Engineer on Oster, Crockpot, Sunbeam and Holmes. Twenty products to market, four patents, and an Edison Award for the Ball FreshTECH canning appliance.
Then Fridababy — I joined as a project manager and left as Sr. Director of Engineering and Quality, having built the product development function from scratch: sourcing, engineering, quality and project management. Fifty-plus products to market, a second brand launched in Fridamom, and revenue up 300%.
Since 2021 I've run Accomplish independently. The principal engagement was Jordan Manufacturing: I ran their engineering, stood up their project management function, mentored the executive team, and delivered seven-figure savings through Lean and Six Sigma on their production lines.
I work fractionally by design. I have two young children and I'm the parent who does the school run, which is why one to two days a week suits me and a corner office doesn't. It also means that when I'm working on your product, I'm working on your product.
Start a conversation
Twenty minutes, no obligation. If it isn't something I can help with, I'll say so and point you at someone who can.
greg@accomplishus.com