Anand Sharma |
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Co-founder of TBM Consulting Group, Anand Sharma has served as president and CEO since its beginning in 1991. Anand is author of The Perfect Engine: How to Win in the New Demand Economy by Building to Order With Fewer Resources (Free Press, 2001), and a monthly columnist for The Manufacturer, where he comments on business and economic trends. He was named a Hero of U.S. Manufacturing in 2001 by Fortune magazine, was awarded the 2002 Donald Burnham Manufacturing Management Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is a member of the Shingo Prize Academy. National media regularly seek his opinions on business and the new economy and he is a frequent speaker at gatherings such as the AME Annual Conference. Anand has more than 20 years experience within the manufacturing industry and held a number of line and staff positions with American Standard, Inc. before becoming vice president of operations for one of its leading operating divisions. Immediately prior to establishing TBM Consulting Group, he was executive vice president at Productivity Inc. and headed the firm’s consulting and training practices. He has a Masters degree in Business Administration from Boston University and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Roorkree University in India. His education also includes Advanced Management studies at The Wharton School of Management. |
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Bob Dean |
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Bob Dean is a co-founder of TBM Consulting Group, Inc. and managing director of Product Development, 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. |
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Bill Schwartz |
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A partner with TBM since 1991, Bill Schwartz is head of TBM’s Medical Products and Pharmaceutical Practice. He has introduced lean principles at dozens of companies over the past 18 years at numerous clients including leading medical products companies such as: ConMed Corporation, Hill-Rom, LeMaitre Vascular, and Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. An engaging speaker and effective trainer, Bill often presents at major trade conferences and helps launch LeanSigma® initiatives for senior management teams with companies getting started with lean. Bill has a widely recognized expertise in Policy Deployment and translating lean principles for business processes in manufacturing and service companies. During his career he has consulted with private equity firms, portfolio clients and several leading companies including Pella Corporation, Hayward Pool Products, Bunge, Danaher Corporation, Saint-Gobain, and Carlisle Companies. Bill has specific expertise in business process kaizen, senior management lean awareness training, and value chain visioning. Earlier in his career, Bill was a senior consultant with Howell Management Corporation and was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Medallic Art Company. He started his career as a marketing representative with IBM Corporation after graduating from Colgate University with a degree in mathematics. He later earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. |
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Gary Hourselt |
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A former senior executive in the aerospace industry, Gary Hourselt brings broad experience in lean business strategy development and deployment. In addition to his role as TBM Chief Financial Officer, Gary leads several international offices and works with executives at TBM client companies to provide strategic guidance and to help them grow through the implementation of Policy Deployment, Lean Management Accounting, and Value Innovation. Gary was recruited as president of Huck Fasteners before joining TBM, and previously served as president of the company’s industrial and aerospace divisions. During his five years with the company, revenues roughly doubled and pretax income grew by a factor of seven. He also led the acquisition and integration of four businesses in four years. Over the years, Gary has led companies throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and in China, Japan, Italy, Germany, France and Britain. Gary is also a Certified Public Accountant who began his career as a controller and operations manager before moving on to become vice president and general manager of Senior Flexonics’ OEM Division. He has been a lean practitioner since 1990. Gary has an MBA from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor’s degree from Aurora University. |
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Stephen Smith |
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Stephen Smith is the managing director and head of TBM’s Global Food and Beverage Practice. Prior to joining TBM in 1995, he worked around the world in operating and senior staff positions. Stephen began his career working in continuous process manufacturing in the Middle East and Europe. He later returned to the United States to work for The Timken Company, the world’s leading producer of highly-engineered anti-friction bearings. At Timken, Stephen held progressive roles in operations and senior leadership including responsibility for their continuous improvement program. He later moved Baldwin Hardware, a Masco company, as Vice President of Operations. His career experience also includes Delco Remy, a division of General Motors, where he served as division operations manger. An early adopter of lean philosophies, Stephen became known for his ability to translate these principles into measurable operating results. Since joining TBM, Stephen has become a trusted advisor to companies such as Allied Signal, Assa Abloy, Harsco, Hillenbrand Industries, Kodak, Kaiser Aluminum, Vermeer Manufacturing and others. Today, he is immersed in the TBM Global Food and Beverage Practice where he leads a team of consultants focused on food-related clients including McCain Foods, Bunge, and others. Stephen and his team help food manufacturers apply the Lean Sigma process to grow, differentiate and prosper. Stephen has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. |
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Dan Sullivan |
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Dan Sullivan is managing director of TBM West and oversees all business for the western half of the United States. He has been a respected consultant, both internationally and in the U.S., for nearly a decade. Dan came to TBM from the automotive industry, where he worked at Ford and Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation in line management positions, industrial and manufacturing engineering. During his 13-year career at Nissan, Dan developed expertise in visual controls, 5S and other aspects of what we now recognize as LeanSigma®. He has been a trusted advisor to Hubbell Corporation, Reiter Automotive Group and Pella Corporation, as well as dozens of other companies, large and small, throughout the country. Dan is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a degree in Industrial Management. He now makes his home in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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Mike Serena |
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Mike Serena has been with TBM for more than 15 years and has held positions of director of consulting and managing director of UK and France operations as well as heading up international TBM LeanSigma Institute operations. A partner with TBM since 2002 and a former educational psychologist, Mike is recognized for his expertise regarding site and corporate cultural transition, management development, and new product/process launches. He has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe, India and Japan. Mike was a tenured professor of educational psychology at Miami Dade University, where he conducted research in artificial intelligence. He began his industrial career in 1981 with Nissan Motor Manufacturing, supporting their site launch and becoming a plant operations manager and an expert in lean principles. During that time, Mike trained and lived in Japan studying both the culture and lean applications. He also served as vice president of operations for Polymore Circuits, a Ford Motor Company supplier, for five years. Mike has worked as a lead consultant with international companies such as ConMed, Maytag, Enpro Industries, Unipart, Amana, Vermeer, Hubble, Special Metals, Halliburton, Gokaldas-India, and Pella Corporation and its acquisitions since joining TBM in 1994. Mike has a degree in industrial psychology from The Ohio State University in Columbus. He also has a master’s degree in educational psychology and a doctorate in educational psychology and statistical analysis from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. |
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Dusty Duckett |
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A student and teacher of lean principles for 20 years, Dusty Duckett is recognized for his expertise in leveraging lean improvements to transform entire value chains. Prior to joining TBM in 1994, Dusty was an industrial engineer with John Deere Company, had positions in the KPO and operations management with The Danaher Corporation and, finally, was plant manager at Eagle Electric in North Carolina where he led the initiative to develop manufacturing cells and a continuous improvement program. Since joining TBM, Dusty has become a trusted advisor for companies such as Huck Fasteners, Kaiser Aluminum, Applica Consumer Products and WIKA Instrument Corporation. Dusty has a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
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