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Lean Accounting Summit Presenters
The Lean Accounting Summit has a reputation of drawing
the world's most recognized lean and lean accounting
thought-leaders.
Bruce Baggaley
Bruce Baggaley, Senior Partner, BMA, Inc., specializes
in the development and implementation of management
processes that incorporate Lean Accounting and lean
performance management systems. His functional expertise
includes the development of management information for
operational and financial planning and control, in
implementing financial accounting control systems, and
in applying activity-based management principles to
reengineering operating processes. He has extensive
experience in aerospace and defense, public utility,
telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing and
service industries. Prior to forming his own firm Mr.
Baggaley was a Accounting and Audit partner at KPMG
responsible for strategic planning for the firm and a
managing associate in the management controls consulting
practice of Coopers & Lybrand in New York, and was a
Professional Accounting Fellow at the Securities &
Exchange Commission.
Mr. Baggaley received an AB in Economics from Dartmouth
College and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University
Graduate School of Business, where he was a member Beta
Gamma Sigma honorary society and is a Certified Public
Accountant. Mr. Baggaley is a frequent speaker on lean
accounting and the management of lean companies and is
co-author of the book Practical Lean Accounting about
implementing Lean Accounting.
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Terry Begnoche
Terry presently serves as a Member and Industry
Relations Manager at the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (SME)
www.sme.org. SME is a non-profit professional
development society serving the manufacturing community.
Terry works with manufacturing professionals in product
and process design & management, lean manufacturing,
quality, and supply chain focusing on collaborative
learning and improvement. Terry’s career interest has
evolved from responding to environmental emergencies to
managing liabilities through controlled compliance and
on to proactive prevention and creative re-design to
eliminate problems and improve performance. Terry
approaches work as an opportunity to help create
win/win/win outcomes for people, their economy, and the
supporting environment. Terry worked to help SME, AME,
and the Shingo Prize collaborate to create a meaningful
Lean Certification and the related Lean Registry.
Prior to joining SME, Terry had over 20 years of
environmental, management, safety, training and
regulatory experience. He began studying quality and
management systems design and improvement because he
perceived that the accomplishment of environmental,
safety, and general business aims was frequently
hindered by management system conflicts. Simultaneously,
he developed and began teaching classes at Oakland
University combining Lean, Quality, Business, and
Environmental Management in courses such as Pollution
Prevention and Environmental Management.
Terry received a BS in Environmental Science from the
University of Michigan at Dearborn and an MSBA in
Quality and Operations Management from Madonna
University. Terry is belongs to Association for
Manufacturing Excellence (AME), American Society for
Quality (ASQ), SME, and the Michigan Association of
Environmental Professionals (MAEP past President and
recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Environmental
Professional Award).
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Michael Bremer
Michael Bremer is a managing partner of the Chicago
office of The Cumberland Group, and an Adjunct Senior
Project Manager for Motorola University and Oriel/Stata-Matrix.
He is a nationally recognized speaker on process
improvement, lean manufacturing, leadership, and
management team effectiveness. He has thirty years
experience including director of the information systems
group for a Fortune 25 company, Chief Financial Officer
for an international association and President of
several new business start-ups.
Michael has been a speaker for the American Quality &
Productivity Center, the Association Manufacturing
Excellence and spoke at the White House Conference on
Productivity. He serves on the national board of the
Association Manufacturing Excellence and is a past board
member of the Strategic Management Association and Board
President of Old Town School of Folk Music.
Michael has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Business
from the University of Missouri – St. Louis, he is a Six
Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean Bronze level certified
(SME), CPA, and CMC. He has published a number of
articles on process improvement, corporate strategy and
performance metrics. He co-authored the “Six Sigma Black
Belt Handbook,” was lead author for “Six Sigma Financial
Tracking & Reporting” both published by McGraw-Hill; his
new book (2007) is on Innovation.
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Mark Carpenter
Mark Carpenter has been the
Controller for Parker Hannifin's Quick Coupling Division
for 17 years. The Quick Coupling lean journey started
in 2001 and lean accounting was introduced shortly
thereafter. Mark has been leading the lean accounting
efforts at Quick Coupling and has been a frequent
trainer at other Parker divisions for lean accounting as
well as other classes.
In 2004, Sales Operations & Financial Planning was
introduced at Quick Coupling Division. Mark has been
the project leader for this effort since inception.
Mark has a BS in Accounting from Western Illinois
University.
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Frank Celmer
Frank Celmer is the
controller for TC Industries, Inc. in Crystal Lake,
Illinois. Since 2005 Frank has helped spearhead his
company’s Lean journey and serves on several Lean
steering committees. He holds “Accounting for Lean”
seminars for local and national companies and also
collaborates with a lean manufacturing consultant to
promote the early involvement and integration of
accounting into the Lean process. Frank had the
privilege to help organize and present TC Industries as
a 2007 tour site for the AME Conference last October.
Frank also serves as
an instructor at Judson University and McHenry County
College in the Business and Accounting departments.
Frank holds a MBA with a certificate in Project
Management and was featured in the April 2007 issue of
“Lean Accounting News.”
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David Cochran, Ph.D.
Dr. David S. Cochran is the founder of System Design,
LLC (2003). He was on the Mechanical Engineering faculty
at MIT from (1995-2003). He established the Production
System Design (PSD) Laboratory at MIT (1995) and his
company (2003) to advance the science of system design
and integrated performance measurement which provides a
roadmap for advancement beyond the success of “lean” and
the Toyota Production System. He is a two-time recipient
of the prestigious Shingo Prize (2002 and 1989) for
manufacturing excellence for his work in the design of
“lean” systems. He received the Dudley Prize for best
paper from the International Journal of Production
Research in 2000 for his work to integrate system design
theory. A special issue of the Journal of Manufacturing
Systems (v. 20, No. 6 2001/2002) highlights his work in
developing the MSDD (Manufacturing System Design
Decomposition) and case study research with the
Automotive and Aerospace industries.
Dr. Cochran has developed the Collective System Design (CSD)
methodology for advancement beyond the results achieved
with lean and six-sigma (while not replacing the
fundamentals of lean or six-sigma). CSD codifies the
leadership and technical principles that bring success
to companies like Toyota, Honda, GE and Southwest
airlines through a language for system design. It
integrates change leadership through dialogue, a
diagnosis to design process to identify and resolve
problems, principles for designing effective systems, a
language for system design and tools to take thinking
from structure to action in many applications including
government, industry, service and cross-sector systems
in scope.
Dr. Cochran is facilitating system design change with
major Aerospace, Automotive and Consumer Products
companies. His work is presently focused on the
Collective System Design of enterprise, and integrated
product design and delivery systems with THAAD, Lockheed
Martin, Visteon and Hewlett Packard.
Dr. Cochran has consulted Lockheed Martin (F-22, JSF,
Space Systems, Missiles and Fire Control: PAC-3), NASA,
Visteon Automotive (6 divisions including Electronics,
Plastics, Climate Control, Glass, and Chassis
components), Robert Bosch Corp.(2 divisions: AB and AP),
Ford Motor Company, Dell Computer, and Kinetic Systems.
Prior to joining MIT, he worked for Ford Motor Company
(Electronics and Automotive Components Division), Lord
Aerospace and the US Army Corps of Engineers, Systems
Engineering Division.
Dr. Cochran is adjunct faculty at Meijo University in
Nagoya, Japan in the Production Engineering - Management
Program and is guest lecturer to the Production
Engineering Institute (TUT), Tampere, Finland. He is a
Board Member of the Greater Boston Manufacturing
Partnership and is affiliated with the Society of
Organizational Learning founded at MIT. Dr. Cochran
received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
from Auburn University and M.Sc. in Manufacturing
Systems Engineering from The Pennsylvania State
University.
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Learn more about Dr. Cochran's Cost Management and Lean
System Design Simulation bonus event on day 2 of the
seminar
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Jean Cunningham
Jean Cunningham, founder of Jean Cunningham Consulting (JCC),
is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the Lean
Accounting field. In addition to an extensive speaking
schedule, Jean also currently serves as the CFO of the
Association of Manufacturing Excellence as well as the
CFO for Stiles Associates, an executive retain search
firm focusing on Lean and Six Sigma.
Jean is the co-author of the acclaimed book, Real
Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization,
an essential text for learning Lean Accounting. She has
also recently co-authored another book, Easier, Simpler,
Faster – a book about Lean and Information Systems.
Both books have been awarded the Shingo Prize, which
Newsweek magazine referred to as the “Nobel Prize of
Manufacturing.”
Jean was previously the former Chief Financial Officer
and Vice President of Company Services at Lantech, LLC
and Marshfield Door Systems, Inc.. It was during these
tenures that Jean launched her Lean career, driving Lean
from the manufacturing floor into the backoffice
functions to include Finance, Information Systems, Human
Resources and Telecommunications.
Prior to joining Lantech, LLC, Jean was a finance
professional with Digital Equipment Corporation and
Westinghouse Electric, holding a number of senior
Controllership and Treasury positions.
Jean has a BS in Accounting from Indiana University and
an MBA from Northeastern University’s Executive
Program. She and her family reside in the Chicago area.
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Bob Dean
Bob Dean is a co-founder of TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
and has developed most of TBM’s training and new
products, a role that keeps him on the leading edge of
trends in business improvement. Bob has been
instrumental in the incorporation of lean business
techniques and Six Sigma – creating LeanSigma® – and in
taking the improvement tools that traditionally belonged
to manufacturing and applying them to service
industries.
Bob is a frequent contributor to the Managing Times
quarterly journal where he writes on developments in
lean philosophies and, most recently, he has been
helping companies integrate their value chains beyond
manufacturing.
For nearly 20 years, Bob has been consulting with
companies from the manufacturing and service sectors
worldwide such as Allied Signal, Ames True Temper and
Pella Corporation. He continues to have close ties with
the Japanese team responsible for the legendary Toyota
Production System, and has worked extensively with the
core group of men who worked under Taichii Ohno,
recognized as the father of just in time. Bob is a
graduate of Clarkson University with a degree in
Engineering.
TBM Consulting Group, Inc. has been instrumental in
bringing lean business principles to the United States,
Europe and South America over the past decade. From its
Connecticut beginnings, TBM has branched out to include
offices on three continents, while growing at a rate of
about 30 percent annually. Profiled in several
publications, TBM has been credited with turning around
hundreds of companies worldwide in the manufacturing and
service sectors.
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Orry Fiume
Orest (Orry) J. Fiume was vice president of Finance and
Administration and a director of The Wiremold Company,
West Hartford, CT, which gained international
recognition as a leader in lean business management in
“Lean Thinking,” by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones.
Orry was Wiremold’s senior financial officer from 1978
until his retirement in 2002. Before that, he was an
audit manager with Coopers & Lybrand.
Orry led Wiremold’s conversion to lean accounting in
1991 and developed alternate accounting systems that
supported the company’s entire lean business efforts. He
went on to install lean accounting at more than 20
Wiremold acquisitions. Orry has studied lean production
in both the U.S. and Japan and has been a guest speaker
at many conferences throughout the U.S. In addition, he
has taught courses on management accounting in a lean
business at The TBM Institute, The University of Dayton
Center for Competitive Change, The Center for Lean
Business Management, MEP’s in five states, and numerous
companies. He also was a member of the People to People
Program’s Economic Management Delegation to China to
discuss U.S. financial management practices. More
recently, Orry has co-authored the 2004 Shingo Prize
winning book, Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a
Lean Organization and was inducted as a Life Member of
the Shingo Prize Academy, which has been referred to by
Business Week as the Nobel prize in manufacturing.
Orry has an MS in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and a BBA in Accounting from Fairfield
University. He is a certified public accountant, and a
member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and Financial Executives International,
where he is a past president of the Connecticut Valley
Chapter. He also serves on the Board of Directors of
several companies.
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Janice Frampton
Janice Frampton is a Senior Lean Consultant with Jean
Cunningham Consulting (JCC), a financial and process
improvement consulting firm with clients throughout the
United States. The firm specializes in “Lean Beyond
Manufacturing” offering a full range of services that
redesign business processes into a lean framework that
sustains waste elimination and supports ongoing and
long-term improvements.
Prior to joining JCC, Janice was the Director of Finance
Excellence for Solectron Corporation, where she was
responsible for designing and disseminating a Lean Six
Sigma Program across Solectron’s worldwide Finance
organization. Her focus was on the education and
development of functional lean leaders around the globe
while simultaneously driving and measuring the impact of
lean events across a decentralized and diverse team of
800 professionals worldwide. Some of the major processes
that were leanified across the organization included:
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Monthly and Quarterly Close
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Legal Entity Structure
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VAT Tax Recoveries
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Customer Profitability Statements
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Rolling 12-Month Forecast Process
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Business Metrics and Reporting Requirements
While at Solectron, Janice was also the General Manager
of a New England based manufacturing operation with an
expertise in new product introduction and high mix/low
volume as well as Director of Finance, I/T, H/R and
Administration for a self-contained subsidiary.
Prior to joining Solectron, Janice spent fifteen years
with Digital Equipment Corporation/COMPAQ Computer
Corporation in various financial roles, including OEM
Divisional Controller, European and Asian Internal Audit
Manager, International FP&A Manager as well as multiple
positions in the Corporate Controller’s office.
Janice has a BS in Accounting from Rochester Institute
of Technology and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Janice resides with her family in the suburbs of Boston,
Massachusetts.
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Rosemary Fullerton
Rosemary Fullerton is an associate professor in the Jon
M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University
(USU) where she teaches undergraduate cost accounting
and graduate advanced management accounting, focusing on
lean principles and lean accounting. During her tenure
at USU, she has been affiliated with the Shingo Prize
for Operational Excellence, serving as an applicant
reviewer, site examiner,
and team leader.
Dr. Fullerton’s research is centered on the
relationships among Lean manufacturing, cost accounting
and performance measures, and firm profitability. Her
current research interests include investigating the
prevalence of Lean accounting and the impact of cost
accounting practices in Lean manufacturing environments.
Dr. Fullerton has published her research in some of the
top academic accounting and operations management
journals. She has also presented her research at
numerous universities and conferences throughout the
U.S. and in Canada, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands,
and Italy. Dr. Fullerton has received awards for
outstanding teaching and research. She co-authored with
Jerry Solomon the Shingo Prize winning book, Accounting
for World Class Operations. Her manuscript, The Role of
Performance Measures and Incentive Systems in Relation
to the Degree of JIT Implementation, co-authored with
Dr. Cheryl McWatters from the University of Alberta,
also received a Shingo Research Prize in 2004.
In 2007, Professor Fullerton completed a year-long
sabbatical where she worked with leading Lean
consultants at various U.S. manufacturing firms, helping
managers transition their accounting systems to become
more relevant in Lean environments. She has presented
workshops on Lean accounting to both professional and
academic audiences around the country.
Dr. Fullerton has a Ph.D. from the University of Utah.
She also earned a bachelor’s degree in English from
Brigham Young University and bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in accounting from Utah State University. In
addition to USU, Professor Fullerton has taught at
McGill University, University of Utah, and Weber State
University. Prior to her academic career, she worked as
a CPA. She is a member of the American Accounting
Association, the Institute of Management Accountants,
the American Institute of CPAs, and the Utah Association
of CPAs, where she currently serves on the Business and
Management Council.
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Debbie Gavin
Debbie is the Vice
President of Finance and Controller for Boeing
Commercial Airplanes. Named to the position in June
2005, she is responsible for business operations,
accounting, financial planning and reporting, estimating
and cost management activities. She leads the Finance
Process Council and Skill Teams.
Her prior roles at
Boeing include Vice President Airplane Production
Finance and Program Management Office, Vice President of
Supplier Management for Business Operations and Finance,
Director of Finance for Supplier Management, Director of
Finance and Information Systems for the Fabrication
Division, Director of Revenue Management for sales
activities in Asia, and Director of Finance for the 757
Airplane Program. She has also held positions in
Corporate Internal Audit, Corporate Planning, and
Information Systems. Debbie joined Boeing in 1986 after
working in Management Consulting for Deloitte and as a
Special Agent for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Debbie received her
bachelor of science degree from the State University of
New York at Buffalo and her master’s of business
administration degree from Seattle University. She is a
Certified Public Accountant.
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Larry Grasso
Larry Grasso is a
professor of accounting at Central Connecticut State
University, where he has developed a course on lean
accounting. Larry's primary research interests are
performance measurement, performance evaluation and
incentives to support lean management and environmental
and social sustainability. Larry has authored or
co-authored several cases and articles appearing in
journals such as The Accounting Review and the Journal
of Cost Management. Most recently his case Aero Gear,
Inc.: Performance measurement, cost management and
product costing in a lean transition, is forthcoming in
the September 2008 issue of IMA Educational Case
Journal. Larry has presented at numerous conferences
nationally and internationally. He has also served as a
consultant for firms in the aerospace and metal
finishing industries.
Larry participated in an
extensive field study of The Wiremold Company, exploring
Wiremold's transition to Lean business practices over a
ten year period. Larry wrote one chapter, co-wrote
another chapter, and contributed financial analysis and
tables to a third chapter in Better Thinking, Better
Results: Using the Power of Lean as a Total Business
Solution, the book reporting the results of the study.
He also contributed a chapter to Lean Accounting: Best
Practices for Sustainable Integration.
Larry earned a BS in
Accounting from Utica College of Syracuse University and
began his career in public accounting, earning an MBA in
Management from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
while working as a CPA in Connecticut. He then earned a
DBA in Accounting with a minor in Information Systems
from Boston University, and taught at the School of
Accounting and Information Management at Arizona State
University and the Lally School of Management at
Rensselaer at Hartford before joining the faculty at
CCSU.
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Dustin Hostetler
Dustin Hostetler is a
business consultant and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
for Rea & Associates, Inc., a top 100 accounting and
business consulting firm with offices in Ohio. He helps
clients implement lean and six sigma concepts in their
office and service functions. Industries where he’s
applied his talents include: manufacturing, retail, food
service and professional services. In addition, he is a
pioneer in helping accounting firms apply lean concepts
to their unique functions like tax return and payroll
preparation, pension administration, bookkeeping and
governmental auditing.
He holds a bachelor’s
degree in finance from The Ohio State University,
graduating magna cum laude. He also received both his
Black Belt and Master Black Belt certificates from Kent
State University.
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Nick Katko
Nick joined BMA in 2002 as a senior consultant after a
career as a manufacturing CFO & controller. As CFO for
E.D. Bullard Company, a privately held manufacturer of
personal safety equipment, Nick led the company in the
implementation of lean accounting techniques – this
includes implementing performance measurements, value
stream costing, lean decision making and the elimination
of Bullard’s traditional standard cost system.
Nick is a featured speaker on lean accounting at the
University of Kentucky’s Lean Manufacturing Leadership
Institutes and the Lexington, KY APICS Chapter.
Nick has a BS in Accounting and MBA in Finance, both
from the University of Kentucky
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Frances Kennedy
Dr. Frances Kennedy teaches managerial accounting at
Clemson University in the School of Accountancy and
Legal Studies. She earned her Phd in Accounting from the
University of North Texas in 2001 and has been at
Clemson ever since. Dr. Kennedy’s 13 years of experience
in public accounting and at industry enriches her
teaching as well as informs her research. Her experience
at Rubbermaid includes plant financial and inventory
management, corporate reporting and new product team
analyst.
Dr. Kennedy’s
research focuses on performance measurements and control
systems in lean enterprises and she has published in
both academic and professional journals. Recent
professional workshops and presentations include the
2007 Shingo Prize Conference, 2007 Lean Accounting
Summit, and the 2008 International Lean and Six Sigma
Conference. Dr. Kennedy was presented the Lean
Accounting Summit’s 2007 award recognizing her efforts
promoting lean accounting both in the classroom and in
the profession. She is also the 2006 recipient of the
Silver Lybrand Medal awarded by the Institute of
Management Accountants and the 2006 Award of Merit from
the International Federation of Accountants for her
contributions to the field of management accounting.
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Mark Kohler
Mark is a 28-year
veteran of operations management and lean manufacturing
leadership. He has spent his career transforming global
manufacturing operations, including the development and
execution of policy deployment at TRW Automotive,
Rexnord Industries, and most recently at Snap-On Tools.
In addition to his leadership in these roles, Mark has
also dedicated the time to earn his Six Sigma black belt
and to become a certified Shingijutsu leader and
Certified Lean Technician.
Mark earned a
master’s degree in 1981 from the University of Missouri
in Columbia and has bachelor’s degrees in finance from
Washburn University, Topeka, KS, and in manufacturing
engineering from Lawrence Technical College, Southfield,
MI. Mark is also a graduate of the Eliyahu Goldratt
Institute TOC (Theory of Constraints).
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Glenn Marshall
Glenn Marshall brings over 30 years of hands on
experience in the development and deployment of a Value
Stream Management approach to leading and sustaining a
Continuous Improvement System (CIS). CIS integrates Lean
and Six Sigma methodology, principles, with other CI
tools to sustain ongoing continuous improvement cycles.
At Northrop Grumman Newport News, Glenn is the Sector
Benchmarking Champion and works at all levels of the
corporation to develop cross functional teams that take
a value stream approach to identify and eliminate waste,
defects, variation, and performance gaps from core
business processes. Benchmarking is use as a key CI tool
to identify “best practices” and then share knowledge to
rapidly close gaps in value stream performance.
The goal of these teams is to use value stream mapping
and management to identify key constraints and use Lean
Six Sigma to drive continuous improvement results. In
addition, he has help design and deploy CIS to achieve
higher efficiency and maturity levels across the
enterprise. Glenn is both Lean and Six Sigma Certified.
Glenn was an Operations / Site Manager with Texas
Instruments Defense Systems working at multiple sites
including supporting international partnerships. In that
role he championed continuous improvements initiatives,
led the design and deployment of integrated factory
systems. Glenn was one of the leaders in TI becoming the
first defense company to win the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award.
Glenn is actively involved with professional and
learning organizations:
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Association for Manufacturing Excellence - National
Director at Larger
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US Senate Productivity and Quality Award Examiner
for Virginia
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Hampton Roads Quality Management Community Steering
Council - Community of Practice
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AME National Chair – Growth and Visibility Committee
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Lean Accounting for Defense Industry - Community of
Practice
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Virginia Business Excellence Consortium – Steering
Committee
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Northrop Grumman Corporation - Process Excellence
Community of Practice
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Brian Maskell
Brian H. Maskell, President of BMA Inc., has more than
25 years experience in manufacturing and distribution
industry. He has held a variety of management positions
from the shop-floor of an electronics company to Manager
of European Inventories for the Xerox Corporation to
Vice President of Product Development and Customer
Service of the Unitronix Corporation. Over the past
fifteen years Mr. Maskell's consulting practice has
taken him to many manufacturing and distribution
companies in the United States, England, Mexico,
Australia, South Africa, and Europe. In recent years BMA
Inc has specialized in the changes required to
accounting, control, management, and measurement methods
for companies pursuing lean transformation. Mr. Maskell
is regarded by many as a leading expert in Lean
Accounting.
A sought-after speaker, Brian Maskell is the author of
six books including; Practical Lean Accounting (2003),
Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing
(1991), Software and the Agile Manufacturer (1993), New
Performance Measures (1994), Making the Numbers Count;
the accountant as an agent of change (1996), and Life's
Little Lean Accounting Instruction Book (2006). Mr.
Maskell's works address the needs of manufacturers as
they move into the increasingly competitive 21st
century. Mr. Maskell conducts seminars and workshops
around the world on such subjects as Lean Accounting,
Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing,
Value Stream Cost Management, Target Costing, and Lean
Accounting Processes; Transaction Elimination.
Mr. Maskell has an engineering degree from the
University of Sussex, England. He is certified with the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in
London, and the American Association of Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA). He is a Fellow of the American
Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). Mr.
Maskell also teaches at the Wharton Business School at
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA. He is
the author of numerous articles and papers and regularly
presents papers at national and international
conferences.
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Carl Mason
Carl has
responsibility to “coach” the Boeing Commercial Aircraft
Headquarters on implementing Lean as a management
system. He leads a group of consultants that are
responsible for helping the Executives to develop
Strategies and Plans that lead to a dramatic
transformation of the business.
The changes that have
taken place to date have enabled record sales in both
2005 & 2006, along with changes to the financial
processes used within Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Carl has been with Boeing for 21 years and has managed
various support & manufacturing organizations within BCA
giving him a well rounded knowledge of the Boeing
production system.
Carl co-authored the
tactics that led to the “moving line” for the 737
program, and has supported numerous special projects
that have dramatically reduced the expenses associated
with designing, building, certifying, and delivering
aircraft and services for Boeing Commercial Aircraft
Company.
Carl grew up in a
small town in Montana, and attended Montana State
University receiving a degree in Finance.
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Ed Miller
Edward B. Miller is
currently a principal of Strategy Development Services,
LLC, a consulting company he founded to help companies
along their Lean transformation by developing corporate
and go-to-market strategies based on Lean Business
Principles as well as deploying them (using Hoshin Kanri)
through the entire enterprise and to the customer.
Ed is a senior-level
executive who is experienced with developing, leading,
and executing successful business strategies including
enterprise-wide lean transformations. Ed has over 32
years of industry experience as an executive in
marketing, sales, and engineering with the practical
know-how of applying Lean principles to win in the
marketplace. Ed has co-authored several articles and
case studies on Lean strategies in marketing and sales.
He is a member of the Central Connecticut State
University (CCSU) Business School Advisory Council and a
member of the Connecticut Shingo Prize Advisory Board.
During his 10 years at one of the early adopters of Lean
in North America, The Wiremold Company, Ed was Vice
President of Marketing & Sales. He was a member of the
leadership team that transformed the company applying
lean principles throughout the enterprise. Ed’s
leadership helped Wiremold leverage the company’s lean
capabilities with all customers in the buying chain.
This allowed Wiremold to achieve strong market position,
expand its markets and realize significant and
sustainable double digit growth. Results were dramatic,
during 1993 to 2000, sales grew 4.5X while operating
profits increased 14 fold.
Previously, Ed served
three years at GS Edwards, a unit of General Signal, as
the Vice President of Engineering, and almost 15 years
at The General Electric Company holding several key
management positions. At GE, Ed was Manager of Product
Marketing at GE Electrical Distribution & Control,
Manager of Engineering for GE Wiring Devices,
Engineering Manager of the GE PLC Venture, and a
Research Electronics Engineer at the GE-Corp Research &
Development Center.
Miller holds a B.E.
in Electrical Engineering from The City College of New
York and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Union
College. Ed also attended many GE business management
training programs at Crontonville, NY and Globally
including, MDC, BMC, AAMS, et al. He has been awarded
20 patents, and was named “Inventor of the Year” in 1980
by the New York Patent Law Association.
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Peggy Neale
Peggy Neale is Controller for Landscape Forms where she
has worked since 1993. Her 30 plus year accounting
career has been in both private and public accounting,
most of which has been in the manufacturing sector.
Peggy received her BBA in Accounting from Davenport
University.
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David Paino
Prior to joining BMA, Inc., David was the Vice President
of Operations with an auto-parts remanufacturing company
in Philadelphia. David was the driving force behind the
introduction of lean manufacturing and other lean
methods that – according to the company’s President –
saved the company in these increasingly competitive
times. David has also served as President of an
industrial parts distribution company and is very
experienced with warehousing, distribution, and
inventory planning methods. Prior to moving into
production operations, David did his MBA work at
Villanova University as a finance major and worked as a
plant and corporate controller.
David is currently working on Lean Accounting projects
with the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company, a
multi-national defense equipment manufacturer; a
Maryland pre-fabricated building products company, and a
division of the Ingersoll Rand Corporation. David also
specializes in quick & easy kaizen methods that are used
to motivate and empower the entire workforce for lean
improvement.
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Steve Player
Steve Player, CPA, serves as the North American Program
Director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, an
international network focused on improving planning and
control, and Managing Director of The Player Group. He
has over 20 years experience in implementing cost and
performance management, strategic planning and process
improvements. Some of Steve’s clients have included
American Express, Colgate Palmolive, Hewlett-Packard,
The Covey Leadership Center and World Vision. He is the
co-author/editor of four books on Activity-Based
Management including, Lessons from the ABM Battlefield.
He founded and runs the Activity-Based Management
Advanced Implementation Group, whose members include
Bell South and Bell Canada. Steve has served on the
Board of Directors of the Consortium for Advanced
Manufacturing - International (CAM-I) and provided
insight for the AICPA Industry and Management Accounting
Executive Committee. Steve is a frequent speaker and
media resource.
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Richard J. Schonberger, Ph.D.
Richard
Schonberger has delivered lectures, seminars, and
advisory services to industrial and business
organizations globally since 1981. His latest deeply
and broadly researched book is Best Practices in
Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement: A Deeper Look .
. . With Telling Evidence from the Leanness Studies
(Wiley, 2007). He is originator of world-class
manufacturing via his book by that title (1986 in 7
languages); and is author of six other trade books
including Japanese Manufacturing Techniques (1982 in
9 languages), the first Western-authored book
detailing the “lean manufacturing” methodology; and
Building a Chain of Customers (1990), predating much
of the lore on supply-chain management. Richard’s
150-plus articles have appeared in a wide range of
practitioner and academic periodicals.
Dr. Schonberger
began as a practicing industrial engineer, followed
by an academic career at the University of Nebraska,
where he was the George Cook (chaired) Professor of
Management; and later as affiliate professor,
Management Science, University of Washington. His
honors include: 1996 Puget Sound Engineer of the
Year; 1995 Academy of the Shingo Prize for
Excellence in Manufacturing; featured in 1995 on the
cover of Quality Digest as one of 24 “New Gurus:
Next Leaders of the Quality Revolution”; 1990
British Institution of Production Engineers’
International Award in Manufacturing Management; and
1998 IIE Production and Inventory Control Award.
Currently,
Richard is director of the “Global Leanness Studies”
and the “World Class by Principles” international
benchmarking project.
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Jerrold M. Solomon
Jerry Solomon has had
a unique opportunity to implement Lean accounting and
manufacturing techniques as he’s simultaneously held the
positions of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President
of Manufacturing at three middle market manufacturing
companies. In his dual role he was able to cast aside
traditional departmental barriers and galvanize the
accounting and manufacturing areas to develop timely and
actionable information.
While CFO and VP of
Manufacturing at PACE, Inc., an electronics
manufacturing firm providing equipment to the
telecommunications, consumer electronics, automotive,
computer and medical industries, Mr. Solomon led PACE’s
Lean transformation resulting in customer lead-time
reductions of 75%, productivity improvements of 64%,
space reductions of 50%, quality improvements of 100%,
and a doubling of inventory turns. In addition to the
improvements taking place in manufacturing, the cost
accounting system was simplified and the use of MRP for
executing the production plan was eliminated in favor of
a pull system with electronic links to all suppliers.
As a result of these efforts, PACE, Inc. was certified
as a World-Class company by the Maryland World Class
Manufacturing Consortium, the first and only company to
be awarded this distinction in the Consortium’s twelve
year history.
Currently Mr. Solomon
is the Vice President of Operations – Hunt Valley, for
MarquipWardUnited, the largest division of the Barry-Wehmiller
Companies Inc., the Western Hemisphere’s leading
packaging automation and converting group.
Mr. Solomon has a B.
S. degree from Clarkson University, an M. S. degree from
Michigan Technological University and an M. B. A. degree
from the University of Chicago. He’s served on the
Board of Directors of Vermont Castings Inc. as well as
the Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation and
currently is on the Board of Directors of the Maryland
World Class Manufacturing Consortium.
Mr. Solomon teaches
Lean Accounting in association with a number of
Universities and has delivered keynote addresses to a
variety of companies and organizations. He has also
been featured on the Lean Accounting video published by
the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and has presented
Lean Accounting on a national web cast sponsored by the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Mr. Solomon is the
author of the Shingo Award winning book, Who’s
Counting?, a highly acclaimed business novel
focusing on the interaction of the manufacturing and
accounting functions during a Lean transformation, and
Leading Lean, a novel about a three day Lean
event. In collaboration with Professor Rosemary
Fullerton, Mr. Solomon has also written, Accounting
for World Class Operations, which has also won the
Shingo prize.
Mr. Solomon brings a
truly unique perspective to the requirements of
manufacturers in their quest to achieve World-Class
performance.
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David Strothmann
Dave Strothmann is the Manufacturing Value Network
Director for SAP America, the worldwide leader of
business management software. In his role,
Dave is responsible for building customer communities,
providing thought leadership, and influencing product
strategy for SAP. Advancing the state-of-the-art of
software support for lean manufacturing is an area of
special interest.
Dave joined SAP in
2006. Dave brings 24 years of experience in industrial
manufacturing management and software product management
to SAP. Prior to joining SAP, Dave spent 8 years in
product strategy, product management and marketing
within the ERP software industry. Prior to joining the
software industry Dave spent 15 years in the industrial
manufacturing industry in a variety of different roles
of increasing responsibility including Manager of
Contracts and Pricing for an aerospace company and
Director of Operations for an industrial equipment
manufacturer.
Dave holds a bachelor
of science degree in marketing from Northern Illinois
University.
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Conrad Sutter
Conrad has had over
30 years experience in accounting in manufacturing
companies. He has been the CFO for Landscape Forms,
Inc. for the last ten years. Conrad has an
undergraduate degree in accounting from Western Michigan
University and an MBA from Drake University.
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