Accelerate Growth Today

Enforcing the behaviors for consistent decisions that enable growth, margin and enterprise value. 

Executive Performance Drives Enterprise Performance.

Every executive faces the same challenge: making better decisions, executing with discipline, building stronger leadership teams, and creating lasting enterprise value in an environment of constant uncertainty.

The problem is rarely strategy alone. Most organizations already know what they want to accomplish. Performance is limited by how consistently leaders make decisions, allocate capital, develop talent, and turn strategy into execution.

The ForgeVector Performance System™ was built to solve that problem.

Developed from decades of experience leading public, private, and private equity-backed companies through growth, turnarounds, acquisitions, and operational transformation, it combines executive coaching, performance diagnostics, proven operating frameworks, and the AI Executive Performance Partner into one integrated system that helps leaders continually improve their effectiveness.

By strengthening decision quality, execution discipline, leadership capability, and organizational alignment, executives build companies that grow faster, perform better, and create enduring enterprise value.

Great companies are built by leaders who make better decisions, execute with discipline, and continuously improve.

That is the purpose of ForgeVector Partners.

EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

I have turned around companies, now I help their leaders do it.

David Dutton.  Former CEO across NASDAQ, PE-backed and private industrial technology businesses.  Stanford Executive MBA. 20+ years in the room where hard decisions get made.

85%

 REVENUE GROWTH IN 2 YEARS

   6 -> 11%

EBITDA MARGIN IMPROVEMENT

   $400M

ANNUAL LOSS TURNED TO PROFITABILITY

TRACK RECORD

Not framework. Results.

The same principles I coach are the ones I applied across three CEO roles over two decades.

MDC PRECISION - PE BACKED

 85% revenue growth in 24 months in semiconductor cycle﻿

Improved EBITDA from 6% to 11% during manufacturing expansion. Doubled manufacturing capacity adding a low-cost factory in Viet Nam. Expanded addressable market by $1.3B through new higher margin product platforms. 

 CEO & BOARD DIRECTOR - SEMICONDUCTOR, LIFE SCIENCE, & AEROSPACE

MATTSON TECHNOLOGY - NASDAQ: MTSN (1994 TO 2016)

  $400M loss -> sustained profitability﻿

Increased cash from $20M to $150M+.  Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Implemented global operations with factories in Germany, California and South Korea with manufacturing partners in Taiwan and Japan. 

 PRESIDENT CEO & BOARD DIRECTOR - PUBLIC SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT

SILVACO - PRIVATE

  Revenue doubled + 6 acquisitions﻿

Achieved sustained profitability. Established new SIP divisioin now representing 25%+ of revenue. Led transition to GAAP and public market readiness.

 CEO, BOARD DIRECTOR & VICE CHAIRMAN - EDA SOFTWARE

BOARD EXPERIENCE 

  Strategy - Compensation - Audit committees﻿

Served on boards of MDC Precision, Silvaco and Mattson Technology.  Deep experience in capital deployment, M&A integration, and governance under constraint. 

   BOARD DIRECTOR ACROSS PE-BACKED, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMPANIES

I spent 20+ years as CEO of industrial technology companies — turning around a loss-making NASDAQ business, scaling a PE-backed manufacturer, and building a software company through six acquisitions. I've sat in the chair you're sitting in, managed the board you're managing, and made the calls you're losing sleep over.

I don't teach leadership theory. I work inside your business, alongside you, on the real decisions — capital allocation, talent, execution, and the behaviours that either build or erode enterprise value.

My approach is grounded in what I call Level 5 Discipline: the consistency to make the right decisions under pressure. Not the smart ones when it's easy — the right ones when the stakes are highest.

Executive Coaching Expertise

Performance Improvement Strategies

Operational Excellence