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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.
Karl Ackermann
Karl Ackermann is the
Director of Global Product & Business Planning for Wahl
Clipper Corporation where he heads up Global New Product
Development as well as Lean Manufacturing. His
experience in industry includes Business Development and
International Lean Implementation. He has worked in many
facets of the manufacturing industry in operations and
as a consultant. Karl is in process of evaluating how to
take Wahl Clipper to an Advanced State of Lean
Implementation.
Karl has a BS in Industrial
Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA in
International Business from DePaul University.
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Anne Anderson
Anne Anderson is a
first level manager leading the Business Decision
Support team in Propulsion Systems Finance. Anderson
leads the Lean Management Systems implementation,
Propulsion Cost Estimating and the Business Kaizen Shop
– a rotationally staffed process improvement team.
Propulsion Systems is
implementing LMS across all of the Propulsion Value
Streams supporting the 737/747/767/777 Airplane
Programs. The Cost Estimating team supports the
deployment of LMS in addition to the development of
engineering support estimates to both sustaining and new
development programs. The Business Kaizen Shop is a
process improvement team established to deploy rapid
improvements in the office.
Prior to this
assignment, Anderson was lead Business and Planning
Analyst in Supplier Management Finance, developing
integrated business briefings for Supplier Management
Executives in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Anderson has
held previous positions both internal and external to
Boeing in Procurement Finance Support, Procurement,
Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Production and
Manufacturing Industrial Engineering.
Anderson has a
Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the
University of Washington and a Master's degree in
Business Administration from Seattle University.
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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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Todd Banner
Todd graduated from Utah State University with a BA in
Accounting, June 1997. He has over 20 years of
accounting experience in the manufacturing world. Todd
has extensive experience in management accounting,
primarily focusing on cost and inventory processes. Todd
has worked in various industries including, industrial
explosives (Dyno Nobel), medical (Merit Medical),
commercial video broadcast equipment (Dynatech), and
automotive safety products (Autoliv). Over the past 12
years Todd has been immersed in the lean culture at
Autoliv, a Shingo Prize winning company and a
recognized, world-wide leader in the implementation of
lean concepts. As a guest speaker with the Autoliv Lean
Consulting Group, he has coached and taught several
companies as they begin their lean journey. Todd has
learned, by experience, that lean tools have application
everywhere and he is passionate about sharing that
knowledge and experience with others.
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Norman Bodek
Norman
Bodek is the president of PCS Inc., a publishing and consulting
company in Vancouver, Washington. In 1979, he started
Productivity Inc. Press and published hundreds of management
books on productivity, quality, and Lean manufacturing. At
Productivity, he also developed and published numerous
management training programs, training videos, ran major
national conferences on productivity and quality, over 200
seminars and workshops a year, 50 study missions to Japan, and
published five monthly newsletters. From his 60 trips to Japan,
he met and published the works of the Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Shigeo
Shingo, the co-creators of the Toyota Production System (Lean
manufacturing), and many other masters in manufacturing
improvement. He even reprinted and republished the 1926 book of
Henry Ford Today and Tomorrow. He introduced to the West
important Lean tools and techniques discovered in Japan: JIT,
Jidoka, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, QFD, CEDAC, Hoshin
Kanri, Andon, Kanban, and Poka-Yoke. He started the Shingo Prize
and is a Shingo Prize winner.
Norman
introduced Technicolor Corporation and other companies to Quick
and Easy Kaizen. At Technicolor in Detroit, prior to his
workshops, the company received in 2001 only 250 suggestions
with 113 implemented, while in the last twelve months the
company received 24,000 suggestions with over 14,000
implemented, resulting in over $10,000,000 in cost savings. He
is a consultant and frequent speaker on Kaizen, Kaikaku, and
Lean manufacturing. In 2004 he was invited to keynote the IIE
Lean conference in Los Angeles and the Quality System Conference
in Detroit. In 2005 he will keynote for APICS, ASQ and others.
He has written close to 100 published management articles and is
the author of three recent books, The Idea Generator – Quick
and Easy Kaizen", Kaikaku The Power and Magic of Lean,
winner of the 2005 Shingo Prize and All You Gotta Do Is Ask.
Norman
attended the University of Wisconsin, New York University, and
New York University Graduate School of Business. Prior to
starting Productivity Inc. he was president of Key Universal
Ltd. a data processing company with offices in Greenwich, CT and
Grenada, West Indies.
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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Jan Brosnahan
Jan Brosnahan began her career with
KPMG Peat Marwick in Minneapolis, MN. During her career at
KPMG, she audited a number of leading companies in a variety of
industries, including Norwest Bank, Tennant Company, General
Signal and Cargill and was the recipient of a National
Instructor Excellence Award while at KPMG. Jan entered private
industry in 1989, serving as the Director of Financial Reporting
and Analysis for The Company Store, Inc. for four years, before
joining Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company as the Controls
Division Controller in 1993.
At Watlow, Jan
has been instrumental in the implementation of Value
Based Management/Lean Accounting for the Controls
Division and has served as a resource to Watlow’s
other divisions as they have pursued Value Based
Management and Lean Accounting. Jan has also been
intimately involved with strategic planning
activities, a major computer system implementation,
development of global profitability analyses, and
evaluation of strategic alliance candidates during
her tenure at Watlow.
Jan has a BS
in Business Administration from the University of
North Dakota and holds both the CPA and CMA
certifications. Jan is quite active in her
community, serving on several local boards of
directors and committees. She enjoys tennis,
travel, music, and attending sporting events. She
and her husband, Paul, have two children.
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Laurie Burney
Dr. Laurie Burney is
an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University
in the Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy where
she teaches managerial accounting. Her experience in
industry and public accounting has enhanced her teaching
and complimented her research. Dr. Burney’s research
interests involve behavioral implications of lean
accounting and strategic performance measurement
systems. Her research has been published in top
accounting academic and practitioner journals and has
been presented at numerous national and international
conferences throughout the U.S., New Zealand, Australia,
France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Dr. Burney has
received awards for outstanding teaching and research.
In 2008, she received the Excellence in Lean Accounting
Professor Award from Lean Enterprises, Inc., recognizing
her work promoting lean accounting.
Dr. Burney earned her
Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2001, and was
on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte before moving to Mississippi State. Prior to
her academic career, Dr. Burney worked as a CPA and also
holds the CMA certification. She is a member of the
American Accounting Association, the Institute of
Management Accountants and the Association for
Manufacturing Excellence. In addition, Dr. Burney is
currently on the Board of Trustees for the Educational
Foundation for Women in Accounting.
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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.
For articles by Dr. Cochran and more information click
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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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James Fitzmartin
James Fitzmartin in May
2006 was named director of Finance for Boeing
Fabrication, a $3.5 billion aerospace parts
manufacturing organization with operations in nine major
sites, four states and three countries. In this
assignment, Fitzmartin has responsibility for leading
development, integration and implementation of finance
business strategies and plans across the division,
including accounting, estimating, cost management and
financial planning. He is also responsible for leading
Fabrication Finance Lean and cost reduction imperatives.
Previously, Fitzmartin for six years led Finance on the
717 Program where he was responsible for management and
integration of financial and accounting activities in
the program’s Long Beach and Toronto sites. He also led
accounting and IWA administration for Commercial
Aviation Services in Long Beach.
Since joining Boeing in 1983, Fitzmartin has held a
series of accounting, finance, and project management
positions focused on the integrated financial management
system as well as merger activities between McDonnell
Douglas Corporation and Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Fitzmartin graduated from Ohio State University with a
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration majoring
in accounting. He is both a Certified Public Accountant
and Certified Management Accountant.
Jim currently resides in Sammamish, Washington with his
three children. He enjoys spending time at his kids’
sporting events, thoroughbred racing and the boating.
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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 its impact on 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, Italy, and Germany. 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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Rob Gilmore
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Ed Grinde
Ed has been the
Watlow-Hannibal Business Unit Controller for the past 11
years. Over the past 4+ years he has implemented Lean
Accounting and been instrumental in implementing Value
Stream Management at the Hannibal facility. He has also
assisted other Watlow plants in their Lean journey,
including their facility in China. Ed has been a key
person in over 30 kaizen events, spanning the entire
spectrum of manufacturing, including both office and
shop events. Prior to Watlow, he worked for 7 years as
Accounting/IS Manager for Heatube, Inc., a subsidiary of
Maytag. He also played a key role in implementing World
Class Manufacturing at Broadcast Electronics, Inc. in
Quincy, Illinois. Additionally he has 9 years of
experience as the Controller and IS Manager of Kuhlman
Diecasting Company.
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Staci Gunnell
Staci Gunnell, brings over
20 years of experience in accounting. Staci has
extensive experience in management accounting, primarily
focusing on cost and inventory processes as well as has
directed ERP financial implementations at several
Autoliv sites. As a guest speaker with the Autoliv
Lean Consulting Group, she has coached several
companies, primarily support departments, on their lean
journey. Using APS as the method (input + method =
output) allows support groups to see "data" as their
inputs, which transforms to satisfied employees,
customers, and shareholders as the outputs. By using
lean tools, support groups will catapult the efficiency
of their teams.
Staci is a graduate of
University of Nebraska and CMA.
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Kent Hansen
Bio Pending
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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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George Koenigsaecker
At The Danaher Corporation,
George Koenigsaecker led the lean transformations of
both the automotive and tool groups. He also led The Hon
Company’s successful lean conversion, which doubled
productivity and tripled revenues, leading Industry Week
to recognize HON on their list of the "World’s 100 Best
Managed Firms." Written to help executives in
determining right from wrong during a lean initiative,
this enjoyable and accessible book shows that lean is
more about an approach than it is about tools.
Koenigsaecker presents the successful strategies and
case histories of several key American leaders who have
been instrumental in bringing lean to the forefront of
various industries.
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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.
For articles by Brian Maskell and more information,
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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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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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Cathy Taylor
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Paul Thicke
Paul Thicke is a
Value Stream Leader for Watlow-Winona Controls. In the
past three years in this role, the Value stream has
transitioned to an informed business unit from bottom to
top with the implementation of Value Stream Analysis (VSA),
lean accounting, capacity, and modeling tools. Paul has
been involved in over 20 kaizen events throughout the
Watlow organization. Prior to joining Watlow four years
ago, he worked as a director of manufacturing
engineering for a rapidly growing contract manufacturer.
He also has over 20 years experience in the disk drive
media industry of which included management roles in
development and manufacturing engineering, strategic
planning and engineering roles in development and
manufacturing engineering.
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Ken Von Holten
Ken Von Holten is the Lean
Facilitator for Wahl Clipper Corp. in Sterling, IL. Ken
has over 30 years of experience manufacturing
Recreational Vehicle accessories, commercial door
hardware and personal care products. Ken spent 27 years
in the Manufacturing Engineering Field and 4 years in
Supply Chain Management before taking on full time
responsibilities for Lean Manufacturing.
Ken has a wealth of
practical experience using lean tools to improve
manufacturing and support operations since the late
1980’s. He has a degree in Machine Design and
certifications in Forecasting and Sourcing techniques.
Ken resides in Rock Falls,
Il with his wife Evette and is co-owner of a Christian
Coffee House called Beans, Books and Beliefs.
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Kris Welker
Kris Welker is currently a
Value Stream Manager at Wahl Clipper Corp. in Sterling,
IL. Kris has over 33 years of manufacturing experience,
with more than 20 years as a supplier in the automotive
industry and almost 13 years in the personal care
products industry. As a former Quality Manager and Plant
Manager, Kris has been involved with lean manufacturing
since the late 80’s, long before it was referred to as
“Lean Manufacturing”.
Wahl Clipper began its lean
journey in May 2001, beginning with the creation of
individual cells and evolving to an organization of
Value Streams. On a never-ending journey to improve flow
and reduce total cycle time, Wahl continues to upgrade
the skills of the workforce and to tweak the
organizational structure to allow for the best possible
communication and decision-making. Wahl has also taken
the use of lean thinking and techniques into the office
and support areas.
Kris has a B.S in Business
Administration and a M.B.A., and is a member of the
Association for Manufacturing Excellence. This is Kris’
second time as an attendee of the Lean Accounting Summit
and first time as a presenter.
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