Andre Neumann-Loreck

Andre neumann loreck

Founder, Managing Partner, Executive Coach, and Consultant

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Coaching
  • Operations & Manufacturing Strategy
  • Negotiations
  • New Product Introduction
  • Organizational Design
  • Scaling Teams
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Manufacturing Engineering & Quality
  • Company Culture & Values

Andre Neumann-Loreck is an experienced COO, operations, manufacturing, and supply chain executive who co-founded On Tap Consulting in 2013. As an executive consultant and coach, he focuses on offering startup entrepreneurs strategic and tactical support for launching products and scaling their companies.


Offering Executive Coaching and Consulting

With over 25 years of experience at the executive level, Andre provides Executive Coaching with a focus on increasing leadership effectiveness, teamwork, and personal development. Andre also consults for entrepreneurs and founders of venture-backed startups to develop operations and manufacturing strategies, accelerate product launches, navigate NPI (New Product Introduction) builds, and grow and manage teams.

“We work with the best interests of the entrepreneurs at the forefront of everything we do.”

Over the last ten years working with 100s of startups, Andre’s goal has been to offer the knowledge, expertise, and network that entrepreneurs need to achieve their goals. He has worked with companies in wellness and medical devices, robotics, enterprise-class products, and consumer electronics.

A Track Record of Leadership

Formerly a three-time COO at successful startups and a VP of Engineering & Operations at Cisco Consumer Products, Andre’s advice and guidance are based on what works in the field. He helps executives avoid costly mistakes.

Andre draws from past professional experiences, including:

  • Operating at the VP level at two Fortune 500 companies
  • Working as VP and then promoted to COO at three startups
  • Hiring, mentoring, and coaching managers who have risen to the highest executive levels
  • Running cross-functional product teams with P&L responsibility
  • Managing through rapid growth, high volume production, and industry downturns in the disk drive industry with over 50 product launches of these complex, electromechanical products
  • Working in factories in the U.S., Europe, and across Asia

Prior to Cisco Systems, Andre built and led successful teams at Pure Digital Technologies (Flip Video; sold to Cisco Systems) where he was COO, and served on the Board of Santur Corporation when it was sold to NeoPhotonics.

Since founding On Tap Consulting in 2013, the company has grown to more than two dozen veteran executives with expertise in the most pertinent areas of a startup journey.

On Tap is able to zoom from strategy to tactics to solve your most pressing issues and enable you to capitalize on your biggest opportunities.