February 23, 2012. For more than 25 years, NCMS has been managing collaborative research and development programs in manufacturing. These programs have yielded hundreds of projects, leveraging billions of dollars – many of which have been acknowledged by international awards and high praise from project participants. These projects have also created many disruptive moments through innovative ideas and solutions that have moved new projects and processes to the market more quickly and at less cost and with minimized risk.
This has taken place at a time in U.S. manufacturing when the industry has been under intense pressure from the economic climate and challenge to remain globally competitive. These barriers have delivered less positive disruptive moments, leaving many manufacturers starved for crucial investments in new capital for growth.
Our NCMS charter clearly limits our ability to move beyond the precompetitive space to take the many innovative and game changing collaboration results of our members to market. That is why I am announcing a new cooperation with Corporate Finance Associates (CFA).
CFA has a 50 year history working with companies to bring the required knowledge and capital to make their disruptive moments, positive moments. Their strengths include, but are not limited to, acquisition strategy, capital formation, ownership transfer and mergers and joint ventures, among other innovative structures and strategies.
I encourage you to refer to the following link to our lead CFA contact, Gianpiero (JP) Balestrieri, Managing Partner, Washington, DC office: http://www.cfaw.com/washington-dc/people/jp-balestrieri.html
Rick Jarman
NCMS President & CEO
