Michael Bellomo - Principal

Michael Bellomo, a seasoned leader with more than 30 years of experience, founded Charles River Engineering to share his extensive leadership skills, in-depth management experience and proven track record for successfully driving new product development. He specializes in motivating, inspiring and managing cross functional teams in the pursuit of bringing new products to market.

As Charles Rivers principal, Michael is a motivating innovation leader. With long product development career in medical devices, computer, military and automotive industries he is passionate about bringing new products to market to inspire better living.  As both a coach and hands-on leader, he works with teams to identify the right development model to address their needs, establishes a clear plan of action, ensures the necessary buy-in, and drives accountability and results.

Prior to founding Charles River in 2014, Michael spent 22 years at Philips in a variety of positions focused on product development and innovation helping grow business unit revenues 10x:

• For 10 years as Director of R&D he led the development of over 15 new products, building upon industry best practices for project management, advanced development and product design  
• As Program Manager led the creation of new businesses in international markets including Philips (Japan) Home Monitoring
• As Program Manager led the innovation program for new services developing insights, concepts and value propositions for new device enabled services for home monitoring

Michael holds a degree in engineering from University of Massachusetts as well as earning his MBA from Babson College. He is also PMP certified.