Charlotte, NC

Product Innovation and Design — Results Driven Transformation.

Fifteen years designing and implementing product and growth strategy for Fortune 500 energy and industrial leaders. A parallel track turning blueprints into buildings as an independent developer and general contractor.

Portrait of Timothy Horner
15+ yrsProduct & growth strategy
$190MPortfolio owned, global
$3MGround-up development, self-GC'd
128%Of plan, program turnaround

Tim moves fluidly between corporate structure and entrepreneurial execution — designing what an organization needs next, then building it himself when no one else will.

As Senior Manager at Duke Energy, he runs energy efficiency programs with a P&L owner's discipline. Through Skyline Centro LLC, he's the visionary and general contractor behind a ground-up, five-unit luxury condominium project — proof he can take an idea from thesis to something you can stand inside.

The throughline is rigor: numbers-first market analysis paired with an instinct for what people actually want, whether he's scaling a connected-hardware line, structuring an acquisition, or reworking a program to meet where the market moved. For an organization navigating growth or transformation, that's a rare pairing — strategic fluency and the hands-on capability to actually build what he proposes.

Where strategy meets execution

Strategy

Turning market signal into a funded, defensible plan.

  • Stage-Gate innovation management
  • Market & competitive analysis
  • Business case development
  • Financial modeling & ROI analysis

Build

Shipping the thing, whether it's code or concrete.

  • New product commercialization
  • IoT & SaaS product development
  • Ground-up construction & development
  • General contracting & permitting

People

Getting the right stakeholders pulling the same direction.

  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Voice-of-customer research
  • Channel & contractor relationships
  • Executive stakeholder engagement

Professional experience

2022 — Present
Senior Manager, Products & Services
Duke Energy — Charlotte, NC

Turned around the flagship C&I energy efficiency program from 58% of plan to 128%, then held it above target.

2020 — 2022
Offering Management Leader, Global
Honeywell — Charlotte, NC

Owned strategy and commercial execution for a $190M industrial safety and gas detection portfolio across NA, EMEA, and APAC.

2018 — 2020
General Manager, Product Development & Innovation
Interstate Batteries — Dallas, TX

Full P&L ownership of a diagnostics and charging systems unit; launched a connected-hardware line with recurring SaaS revenue.

2015 — 2018
Regional Operations Manager
Interstate Batteries — Northeast Region (US)

Coached independent distributors across multi-state territories — the channel instincts that carried straight into development.

2012 — 2015
Manager, Global Product Innovation
Brady Corporation — Buffalo, NY

Directed voice-of-customer research that shaped a $20M+ product roadmap across industrial segments.

2006 — 2008
Product Sales & Marketing Manager
James Hardie Building Products — Chicago, IL

Earned specification with builders and architects — a first education in how construction markets actually decide.

Let's talk

Open to the next build — corporate or ground-up.