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Dr. Hira Fotedar

Mr. Brian Furlong

Dr. Bud Gookins

Mr. Robert Meyer

 

Dr. Hira Fotedar

Operational Excellence l Lean in Office l Lean Six Sigma

Total Quality Leadership l Quality/Supply Chain Management

Management Consulting & Assessments l Strategic Planning

Dr. Hira Fotedar is Chairman of WINOC and former Vice President for Quality and Operational Excellence at the Eaton Corporation where he led the creation, implementation and assessment of the Eaton Business System. He is a Fellow and Certified Quality Engineer of the American Society for Quality. He holds B.S., M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in metallurgical engineering. He is a nationally recognized and award winning expert in the fields of Materials Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, New Product Development & Launch and Total Quality & Productivity Management. Among his many credentials, he is a former Senior Baldrige Examiner and a co-founder and past Chair of the Ohio Award For Excellence.

Mr. Brian Furlong

Lean Enterprise Consulting, Education & Coaching

 Change Management l Supplier Integration l eLearning

Acquisition & Due Diligence l Turnaround

Brian Furlong is a principal and partner at Lean Enterprise Inc., a Canton, Ohio-based Business Process Improvement consulting and e-Learning firm.  A former Senior Operations Executive for several major corporations, Brian specializes in helping executives to create excellent processes that result in substantial profitability improvements. Brian Furlong is the co-author of “The Elusive Lean Enterprise” and has developed several e-learning solutions including “The Lean Executive”, “Lean Mastery”, “The Lean Office”, “Outsourcing”, and a multi-module Process Excellence library. He has presented at many conferences, professional associations and corporate events. Brian has a B.A in International Business and Finance and is currently and adjunct faculty instructor at the University of Akron, the University of Cincinnati and Youngstown State University.

Dr. E. F. (Bud) Gookins

Development & Implementation of Quality Systems

Management & Quality Consulting & Training

Quality Control l Product Liability

Dr. Bud Gookins is President of Gookins Technologies consulting company. He has held top executive positions in small and medium sized manufacturing companies, led Corporate Quality for Fortune 100 companies and serves on the board of several companies. Bud holds numerous certifications and is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning expert and author in areas of quality systems, quality control and product liability.

Robert P. Meyer

Strategic & Operational Planning in Private & Public Sectors

Team Development with Labor-Management Cooperation

Total Quality Systems Development

 

Mr. Robert P. Meyer is Vice Chairman of WINOC and Director of the Northeast Ohio Center for Labor Management Cooperation. He has a B. S. in Physics from Xavier University and an MBA degree from the University of Akron. He is an expert in areas of quality and productivity improvement through employee involvement. He is active on local and national committees that foster employee involvement in workplace change. He is a former National Baldrige Examiner, a certified quality engineer and has served on the Board of the Ohio Award for Excellence.

 

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