What Makes Us Different

Ken Haven
Founder / Chairman

Ken Haven is Founder and Chairman of Acorn Product Development. He has been CEO of Acorn Product Development since the company’s founding in 1993. Ken has more than 40 years of product development experience including technical leadership roles with NeXT Computer, Attain, Inc., and Hewlett-Packard. He holds MS and BS degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.

Brian Lewis
General Manager, West

Brian Lewis leads the engineering team in our Silicon Valley Design Center. He brings over 20 years of experience focused on the healthcare and life science industries. Brian has extensive experience with life science instrumentation and consumables and has taken complex software controlled devices through multiple clinical trials. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University, and has been awarded 15 patents throughout his career. In his free time, you can find Brian working on one of his vintage cars or riding mountain bikes.

Tim Lau
Founder / CTO Emeritus

Tim Lau co-founded Acorn with Ken and is Acorn’s CTO Emeritus. Tim has 40+ years product development experience in technology product development, and manufacturing liaison roles for NeXT Computer, Wyse Technology, and Plantronics. Tim holds a BS in mechanial engineering from University of Rochester and an MS in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Jeff Weeks
General Manager, East

Jeff Weeks leads the engineering team in our Boston Design Center. With over 11 years’ experience delivering complex products and technologies to market, he is adept at all stages of development from product definition to volume production. Jeff is highly experienced managing global teams to deliver high quality products and user experiences. Since graduating with a BS from Northeastern University his experience has spanned consumer products, scientific instrumentation, defense systems and industrial automation.

Tom Dutremble
CEO

Tom is CEO of Acorn Product Development. He specializes in mechanism design, structural analysis and vibration analysis. With over 10 years of experience in high volume manufacturing design, Tom has a deep understanding of intersection of industrial automation and design for manufacturability. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University and an MBA from Boston University.

Minxiang Liu
General Manager of Acorn Asia Group

Minxiang Liu leads the engineering team in our China Design Center. He has more than 20 years of product design and development experience and five years of teaching experience at the college level. He holds a MS degree in mechanical engineering from Northern Illinois University and BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University.

Natasa Petrova
CFO

Natasa has had a dynamic career in the accounting and audit field in an international environment. As CFO, Natasa leads the accounting team at Acorn and works on financial initiatives across all centers in the US and internationally. She holds Masters in Audit and is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Ramnik Singh
Director of People Operations

As Director of People Operations, Ramnik has been leading HR and operations for all Acorn US Offices in her 14+ years with the company. She is a member of the executive team, and works on achieving strategic business objectives in areas of Organization Design, Succession and Workforce Planning, Talent and Performance Management and Business Process Improvements. She holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in Operations Research.