“Jens hired me into f'real foods right when we were challenged with creating the world's most sophisticated self-cleaning milkshake blender. Under his leadership and guidance we turned a grand and ambitious vision into something truly great! He led our team through every stage of product development from 'how the hell are we going to do that?!', through the innovation and invention of solutions, into manufacturing, and then introduction to market. Jens applies the right mix of motivation, drive, focus, fairness, and humor to really inspire a team of engineers to do their best. He knows how to encourage people to express their ideas freely and makes the decisions necessary to keep a project moving forward. He is unfailingly positive and forward-looking; every problem is an opportunity for creative solutions. Jens knows how to manage people of every discipline and knows when to seek expertise outside of the organization. When outside contractors are engaged he ensures that good value is received. Finally, Jens is very action-oriented and has superb critical-thinking skills. He’s a big advocate of learning-by-doing; we created numerous iterations of our machine during the project and learned a great deal each time. In the 25 years I have been involved with new-product development Jens was one of the best leaders I’ve had the opportunity to work for. Our team took on some tremendous challenges and had an absolute blast overcoming them. ”
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