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Douglas
F. Carlberg
Chairman & CEO
M2 Global, Inc.
Chairman and CEO of M2 Global Manufacturing and M2
Global Solutions, he has over 30 years of experience
in operations management in the electronics, telecommunications,
and defense industries. His background
includes more than 15 years of executive leadership
with profit/loss responsibility for leading high-technology
commercial and defense firms. His areas
of expertise include directing all lean manufacturing
aspects of product development, production, supply-chain
management, sales, and service. The recipient
of numerous awards for excellence in manufacturing,
he serves as president of the Southwest Region of
the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.
M.
Paul Carlberg
Vice President, Sales
Après Systems
Vice President of Sales at Après Systems, developers
of etfile
document management, he has over 15 years of experience
in management, customer service, sales and marketing,
Web development, project management, and computer
operations. With strong leadership, analytical,
and negotiation abilities, he is adept at troubleshooting
and proficient at developing and managing automated
financial information systems. He has
a broad range of technical and computer skills and
is regarded as a skilled professional at developing
innovative customer service improvements to enhance
bottom-line performance.
Patti
K. Meisetschleager
Chief Financial Officer
M2 Global, Inc.
Chief financial officer of M2 Global, Inc., she has
over 25 years of experience in finance and cash management
in industry and banking. She is proficient
at developing and implementing banking and cash management
operations for large corporations, including directing
multimillion-dollar negotiations and managing relationships
with hundreds of banks. Her extensive experience
with major U.S. banks includes integrating cash management
operations for three acquisitions and one merger.
John
H. Puckett
President
Visions of Excellence
Founder and president of Visions
of Excellence (a consulting firm specializing
in coaching companies in the transition to lean manufacturing),
he has over 35 years of experience in manufacturing. His
areas of expertise include industrial engineering,
program management, production operations, material
management, and executive management operations. He
is proficient at business development, team-based
manufacturing, lean manufacturing, and supply chain
management. His experience in lean manufacturing
includes training and facilitation in production demand
flow, Kaizen process improvement, process improvement
tools, and statistical process control tools and methods.
Larry
G. Anderson
Principal & Owner
Anderson & Associates
Principal of Anderson and Associates, he is a senior
management and training professional with over 30
years of management, training, and engineering experience. He
has a strong lean manufacturing and Manufacturing
Resource Planning improvement background that includes
a variety of functional experience. A people-oriented
leader with a bottom-line focus, he possesses exceptional
motivational skills and is known for transforming
companies into world-class organizations. He
serves as an examiner for the Shingo Price for Excellence
in Manufacturing and the Texas Award for Performance
Excellence.
John
Banse
Executive VP & COO
Steele Technologies, Inc.
Executive vice president and chief operating officer
of Steele Technologies, he has over 20 years of experience
in manufacturing and operations management in high-technology
industries including telecommunications, wireless
location systems, digital recording systems, computer
hardware, and power mobility products. He
has a history of success in domestic and global business
development, high-level negotiations, managing multi-site
operations, leading multi-function teams, and developing
systems and strategies for manufacturing operations
and engineering, supply chain, and quality improvement.
Bob
Cartwright
President
Intelligent Compensation
Founder and president of Intelligent Compensation
(a human resources compensation consulting firm),
he has over 20 years of diverse experience in all
areas of compensation and human resource management. A
certified Senior Professional of Human Resources,
his areas of expertise include executive and team-based
compensation strategies, expatriate compensation,
performance management systems, employment relations,
strategic planning, personnel policy development,
succession planning, litigation services, and Defense
Contracting Compensation Systems Compliance strategies.
Jean
Cunningham
Principal & Owner
Lean Accounting and Business Strategy
Owner and principal of Lean Accounting and Business
Strategy, she is a management consultant with over
16 years of experience applying lean concepts to a
variety of organizations. Co-author of
two books, Real Numbers: Management Accounting
in a Lean Organization, and Simpler, Faster:
Systems Strategy for Lean IT, she received the
Shingo Prize for Research in 2004. Her
areas of expertise include business strategy development,
process improvement, and growth and acquisition planning.
James
Cupello, Ph.D.
A research scientist and quality management expert,
he has a 30-year history of maximizing quality and
productivity in industry, government, and academia.
His areas of expertise include strategic planning,
Six Sigma, market research, research and development,
and new product development. A Six Sigma
Master Black Belt, he was among the first to apply
quality improvement processes in the area of new product
development. He has held leadership positions
in a wide range of fields including aerospace, banking,
and biophysics. He holds a Ph.D. in radiation
biophysics from the University of Kansas.
R.
Tim Dickinson, Ph.D.
President
Dickinson Engineering
Owner and president of Dickinson Engineering consulting
firm, he has an extensive history in engineering and
manufacturing technology, including over 15 years
of executive experience. He is proficient
at assisting manufacturing senior management with
cost and lead time reduction projects, and he has
a solid history of helping supply chain managers achieve
substantial improvements in productivity.
His areas of expertise include process technology
development and the application of lean and Six Sigma
manufacturing techniques. He holds a Ph.D.
in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas.
Anthony
L. Edridge, Ph. D.
A senior scientist with over 30 years of experience
in engineering, quality, and project management in
the telecommunications, electronics, aerospace, and
defense fields, his background includes 13 years of
research and development achievements. His
problem-solving abilities have led to significant
financial gains for numerous companies. At
M2 Global Technology, he provided leadership to the
engineering team, achieving a 50 percent reduction
in new product introduction cycle time that was a
major factor in increasing M2 Global's product market
share. He holds a Ph.D. in microwave physics
from the University of Surrey, England.
James
N. Edwards
Principal & Owner
River Oaks Resources
Principal and owner of River Oaks Resources management
consulting firm, he is a Certified Management Consultant
with over 30 years of experience. He specializes
in manufacturing consulting with an emphasis on business
process re-engineering, just-in-time manufacturing,
lean manufacturing, and manufacturing control systems. His
areas of expertise include overall business planning,
manufacturing resource planning, enterprise resource
planning, and distribution systems. He
has a strong history of achieving dramatic reductions
in lead time and work-in-process inventory, with significant
gains in productivity and quality.
Isaac
K. Fokuo Jr.
Founder and principal of the BOTHO Group of companies,
he has over 12 years of experience in internatinal
business development, finance, change and project
management, supply-chain management, and business
development. His areas of expertise include
corporate due diligence and governance, business development,
process design and implementation, political and economic
risk analysis, and Islamic finance. He
is a sought-after speaker on topics such as emerging
market opportunities, corporate governance, strategic
philanthropy, and operations management.
Adrian
Guardia, Ph.D., SPHR
President and principal consultant for Applied Group
Dynamics, he has over 30 years of experience in Human
Resources. His expertise spans diverse
fields including financial services, electronics manufacturing,
soft drink bottling, and high-end retailing. His
career assignments have included nationally recognized
firms such as JPMorgan Chase, Harris Corporation,
Dr. Pepper Bottling Company, and Federated Department
Stores. He holds a Ph.D. in Leadership
Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University.
Robert
K. Hall
A manufacturing executive with over 15 years of multi-site
management and profit and loss experience (including
five years at the vice-president level), he has an
extensive background in lean manufacturing. As
a lean manufacturing improvement consultant, he has
markedly increased profits and efficiency for numerous
companies in diverse industries including automotive
manufacturing, mining equipment, construction equipment,
steel production, industrial products, medical devices,
communications, information technology, and various
consumer products.
Christopher
James
Principal of James Financial Consulting, he is a finance
professional with over 20 years of experience in fast-paced,
high technology manufacturing environments. His
areas of expertise include cost accounting, general
accounting, and financial planning. He
is proficient at developing accurate financial models
and markedly improving planning, reporting, and forecasting
processes. With superior organizational
skills, he is adept at successfully managing financial
operations throughout challenging periods.
Gyula
Kovacs, Ph. D.
Quality engineer and project manager for M2 Global
Technology, he has over 30 years of experience in
industry and academia, including 15 years of experience
in manufacturing and operations management and commercial,
military, and aerospace product and component and
chemical compounds manufacturing. An expert
in managing quality systems operations in a Lean Manufacturing
environment, he successfully led two companies in
achieving ISO 9001:9004 compliance and certification. His
areas of expertise include ISO/QS/AS 9000, GMP, OSHA,
ASTM, ASME codes, Kaizen, Poka-Yoke, Six Sigma, Total
Quality Management, Statistical Process Control, and
auditing.
Claudio
S. Mariotta
An accomplished executive, he has over 35 years of
domestic and international experience in general management,
operations, new product development, manufacturing,
and quality management. His achievements
include managing joint development of products with
AT&T and a startup company, developing an offshore
software contractor, completing technical due diligence
for acquisitions and equity investments, obtaining
ISO 9001 certification, attaining dramatic improvements
in operational efficiency and cost reduction, and
playing a key role in redesigning the first digital
radio.
Don
F. Pankey
An expert in quality evaluation and improvement, he
has over 30 years of management experience in manufacturing
and quality control at major corporations in industries
such as communications, electronics, and utilities. He
has a solid history of developing and implementing
quality and customer satisfaction improvement strategies
that lead to substantial increases in sales and profits. He
has served as examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award and senior examiner for the State of
Florida Governor's Sterling Award.
Alexi
Paulina
Principal of Skillful Scribe, a writing and editing
service, she has over 20 years of experience in diverse
industries including biotechnology, information technology,
telecommunications, electronics, manufacturing, and
defense. Her skills include writing and
editing a wide variety of written material including
news releases and articles, technical documents and
manuals, website content, brochures, resumes, biographies,
correspondence, and presentations. She
has written numerous articles for various publications,
and also prepared the applications that enabled a
Fortune 500 company to win several awards.
James
W. Randle, Jr.
A senior management professional with over 30 years
of experience in both corporate and educational environments,
his areas of expertise include supplier development,
supply chain management, sourcing, education, training,
strategic planning, program management, team building,
supplier and customer relations, communication, and
customer satisfaction. He is proficient
at developing, implementing, and presenting innovative
and effective training programs in a variety of fields. In
his 23-year career at Lockheed Martin, he received
numerous awards and recognitions.
Wayne
A. Richie
A Certified Quality Engineer (American Society for
Quality), he has over 20 years of experience in electronics,
manufacturing, quality improvement, telecommunications,
and computer systems. His areas of expertise
include electronics test technology, quality engineering,
and team-based management. He is proficient
at achieving process and product enhancements by using
quality improvement and management tools such as statistical
process control, benchmarking, Kaizen techniques,
and Six Sigma.
John
A. Saathoff
A manufacturing productivity expert, he has over 30
years of experience helping businesses achieve substantial
increases in productivity and profit. He
has served as a consultant to several Fortune 500
companies and is proficient at improving the bottom
line of medium to large-sized organizations by identifying
and implementing the techniques of lean thinking and
the solutions of constraints management. His
areas of expertise include all aspects of lean manufacturing,
Kaizen process improvement, and just-in-time manufacturing. His
experience is international in scope, covering Europe
and the Far East as well as the United States.
Dan
L. Shunk, Ph. D.
Technology Programs Director
Arizona State University
Director of Technology Programs at Arizona State University,
he has over 25 years of experience in the field.
Presently he is working with major electronics companies
as the principal investigator on a $1.5M project,
developing a strategy and achieving a reduction of
times and costs by 20 to 80 percent. In
addition, he is pursuing research into global new
product development, model-based enterprises, and
global supply chain. His educational background
includes a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue
University. His latest book is Integrated
Process Design and Development.
Kaye
Don Treese, Ph. D.
Principal & Owner
Treese & Associates
Owner and principal consultant of Treese & Associates
of Tucson, Arizona, he has over 30 years of experience
in manufacturing technology and engineering management.
He has successfully performed consulting projects
in industrial engineering, manufacturing technology,
and factory modernization for over 40 major clients
covering a wide range of technologies. His
educational background includes a Ph.D. in business
administration from the University of Beverly Hills,
California.
Archie
A. Wohlfahrt
Director, Business Development
M2 Global Technology, Ltd.
Senior director of business development for M2 Global
Technology, he has over 25 years of experience in
technology-related manufacturing. His areas
of expertise include product development, strategic
business improvement, business process re-engineering,
just-in-time manufacturing, lean manufacturing, Kaizen
process improvement, and team-based management. He
has a strong history of developing and implementing
highly successful business improvement initiatives,
including a new product introduction process that
reduced product development time by 60 percent.
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