Welcome to Concept to Creation, a podcast featuring entrepreneurs who share their business journey. We’ll hear what motivated them to turn their dreams into a business. They’ll share stories from the trenches of business, from raising capital, creating products or services, navigating regulations, hiring employees, and managing competition end growth. We’ll discover their successes and failures, and they’ll provide advice for budding entrepreneurs.
Your Host:
Mike Konrad began his career in the electronic assembly equipment industry in 1985. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents.
Mike is an internationally known speaker on the subject of increasing reliability through contamination removal and cleanliness quantification techniques and procedures. Mike was awarded “Distinguish Speaker Status” with SMTA in 2018 and received the “Rich Freiberger Best of Conference Award” in 2019.
Mike was recently elected to the SMTA Global Board of Directors where he chairs the SMTA Training Committee and is also a member of the SMTA Strategic Devolopment Committee. Mike is also Vice President of Technical Programs for the Los Angeles / Orange County SMTA Chapter.
Mike is also the host of the popular Reliability Matters Podcast.
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