Festo is a global player and an independent private, family-owned company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 40 industries. Head of manufacturing, operations and supply chain functions for the North American Business Region of Festo. Leading four manufacturing and assembly operations and three warehouse/distribution centers across United States, Mexico and Canada to support North American customers. Leading the operational strategy and footprint optimization to support growth and profitability improvement within the region. Drive operational P&L attainment through a lean based operating model focused on reducing costs year over year, improving delivery performance and achieving top quality performance in our products and service.

• Directed manufacturing operations and supply chain functions across North and South America focused on improving EBITDA and cash flow.• Directed footprint optimization plans to optimize manufacturing and distribution system to lower costs and improve lead time performance to our customers. These efforts included leading plant consolidations, plant and warehouse expansions and start-up of new operating and distribution centers across the US and Mexico. • Directed R&D operations for global product development and new product commercialization. • Directed global environmental, health and safety programs, improving recordable incident and lost time incident rates to top tier performance.• Directed global sourcing and procurement efforts to optimize total spend and establish global supply chains to service the business.• Led divesture of non-core businesses in US and Chile.• Led acquisitions through full vertical integration exceeding targeted synergies and successful integration of the businesses.• Led mid to large scale capital investments to successfully support growth and return on investment targets to transform the operating platform and performance. • Directed Operating Planning to optimize lead times, working capital and operational efficiencies. • Directed lean manufacturing principles through the organizations as the core operating system and foundation for improving the operational performance.

• Direct continuous improvement strategies across North American business to improve EBIT performance and improve operational labor efficiency.• Implement Lean into supply chain operations to improve flow and streamline operations resulting in improved operatational labor efficiency and operating costs for the company and customer.• Direct the implementation of Daily Management System across warehouse and distruction centers increasing the transparency of performance and increasing employee engagement into continuous improvement within the operating locations.• Direct process engineering organization driving automation and innovation into existing warehouse and distribution centers to improve performance.

• Directed procurement strategies and sourcing process for $200 million of spend within the North American Business to reduce input costs and optimize raw material inventories across the business.• Led centralized Estimating and Pricing function to support $400M in revenue and new business growth across North America and global Customer bids across China and European Businesses.• Implemented centralized capacity planning system to optimize the production platform loading, strategic capacity management across North America.• Directed Business Strategy and Strategy Deployment process to deliver annual business targets for revenue growth, EBITDA attainment and organization effectiveness.• Directed Continuous Improvement strategies across North American and China businesses to improve performance and reduce costs resulting in $10 million of impact.• Headed inventory management, logistics and transportation functions across North America to effectively manage the supply chain and delivery to the Customers.

- Directed global Continuous Improvement Organization in leading Lean and Six Sigma strategies and projects across operations and transaction services resulting in annual EBITDA cost reduction impact of $100 million per year and enabling significant reduction in Cash Flow. - Headed enterprise-wide project pool creation process and business case development to support $100 million of financial impact annually.- Directed corporate-wide Quality Management System globally to ensure consistent quality processes, tools and standards were implemented enterprise-wide across 65 locations, resulting in the reduction of Critical Tier I complaints by 70% in three years and 50% internal waste reduction. - Implemented and directed Strategy Deployment Process corporate-wide utilizing Hoshin Planning (Policy Deployment) methods to identify and prioritize key business strategies, strategic initiatives and key performance indicators to achieve the business’s Financial, Long-Range Plan.- Managed the strategic operating and capital budgets up to $6 million for Continuous Improvement for the global organization. Selected, managed and aligned corporate staffing, selected consultants and other solutions to support the organization strategic targets of improvement, generating value to the company and customer. - Effectively led the integration of the continuous improvement systems, strategies, people and asset optimization of two billion dollar mergers and two small cap acquisitions to exceed business case value of synergies and cost savings.- Formed and led Program Management Office to manage the deployment, reporting, training and impact of continuous improvement strategies and projects globally. Hired and developed 30 person staff to lead global programs such as Lean, Six Sigma, Quality and Maintenance, and Reliability Management Systems.

- Directed global deployment of Six Sigma into Operations and Transaction Services for $2 Billion Organization leading to annual EBITDA cost reduction of ~$25 million per year. - Formed and led Program Management Office to centrally manage, report and optimize total Continuous Improvement impact across the organization. Secured and led resources for key priorities across the organization.- Directed Total Quality Management Program to improve product quality, customer satisfaction and reduce waste.- Directed global Reliability Centered Maintenance Strategy and Process to improve asset health and reliability.- Led various large impact in Operations and Transactional Services, leading to $1MM+ in savings.

- Led multi-million dollar, cross-functional projects to achieve short and long term business improvement objectives. Improving productivity, cycle time reduction, quality improvement resulting in bottom line EBITDA improvement.- Co-developed the creation of the Six Sigma System and Program Management Office including training materials, procedures and tools to train, mentor and certify Six Sigma Blackbelts, Greenbelts, Yellowbelts and Champions globally.- Led instruction, coaching and certification of Blackbelts, Greenbelts, Yellowbelts and Champions worldwide.- Directed project pool creation for Transactional Services and European Operations.