Joel F. Smith

Joel Smith has over 30 years of experience in product and process development in the textile, paper, industrial equipment, industrial and commercial electronics, and machine design industries.  Joel is currently a principal and co-founder of THE PEOPLE SOURCE GROUP (TPSG), a generalist consulting firm.  He has held director and vice president of engineering positions for small to medium sized companies and general management positions for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.  Prior to founding TPSG, he was general manager of HITEK, a start-up manufacturing subsidiary of Sarnoff Corporation.   He has run business units for FMC, was involved in turnaround of The Delp Corporation, and was VP of Engineering for The Synthetics Group.  Joel has led, managed and coached financial, marketing, operations and technical professionals for over 20 years.  He has provided outsourced technical people to internal and external customers.

Joel holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Towne School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.  He has taken numerous advanced courses in management and business.  Joel is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of BioStrategy Partners and serves on the board of BioLaunch 611+ KIZ.  He is the Chair Emeritus of the Small Business Board and formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Steering Committee of Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures of Temple University and is a founding member of the University of Pennsylvania Center of Organizational Dynamics.