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Mr. Winkler was appointed Vice President and General Manger Engineering and Product Development in 2006. He joined Kronos with over 18 years of engineering, design and complex system product development experience. Mr. Winkler served as a Vice president of Engineering at Armatron International during his tenure he redesigned and re-launched entire lines of commercial and consumer products. Increasing quality, streamlining production and at the same time reducing costs. He also launched new products for Sam’s Club, Costco, Flowtron: Outdoor Products and Sharper Image. Previous to that Mr. Winkler worked as a key member of the product development team at Keurig Premium coffee systems. There Mr. Winkler held an instrumental role of senior product development engineer in the launch the company’s first small office single cup coffee brewing system. He followed that success with the company’s first entry into the consumer single cup coffee brewing market. Mr. Winkler is a graduate of Northeastern University spent the first eleven years of his career at The Schawbel Corporation where he developed products for such companies as Conair, Black & Decker, Craftsman, S.C. Johnson, Philips, Scripto- Tokia and Sanyei/Koizumi. Over his career he has been named in over seven patents. | 