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Our Team

Our Business Excellence Facilitators have few things in common Passion for Business Excellence; Love for training; Rich Multi Industry Exposure; Expertise in 12 Problem Solving competencies.

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Vishwadeep Khatri (VK)

Vishwadeep Khatri (VK)

Founder, CEO.

VK is a B. Tech., MBA, and has facilitated business improvement projects for 20 years while coaching thousands of Business Excellence professionals and hundreds of Master Black Belts. VK has done pioneering work across domains in US, Europe, Middle East and Asia with clients like Google, Sapient, JLL, Bata, Schneider Electric, Diageo and JP Morgan Chase.

Practice Areas –Business Excellence, Process Maturity Certification

Paul Allen

Paul Allen

Lean Six Sigma Leader, UK

Paul has a passion for transformational capabilities of Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma and Lean. Taught with simplicity, clarity and passion. 

Paul has worked in a multitude of industries: Steel, Electronics, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Electro-mechanical assembly. Paul specializes in making Six Sigma accessible to Small and medium- sized companies up to 500 employees who find the big corporate 6 Sigma approach impractical for them.

Rupinder Narang

Rupinder Narang

Principal Consultant, USA

Rupinder is a Master Black Belt with over 10 years of experience in utilizing Six Sigma concepts, tools and methodology to influence business results. She has been leading business transformation projects in Service Sector Organizations. She is a Bachelor of Engg, Civil, from REC Srinagar and MTech Environmental Science, and Engg from JMI Delhi.

Practice Areas – Business Process Improvement.

Mayank Gupta

Mayank Gupta

Senior Consultant, India

Mayank Gupta (MG) is a Master Black Belt with over 10 years of experience in Business Excellence. He has trained many budding lean six sigma professionals and has driven financial benefits in multiple projects. He is a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Delhi University and MBA from Goa Institute of Management.

Dr. Suresh Jayaram

Dr. Suresh Jayaram

Principal Consultant

Suresh is a certified Master Black Belt, Lean Expert, Change Agent, and PMP with over 20 years of international experience working in Multinational Companies in India and USA. He has completed scores of projects and delivered millions of dollars in savings. He is an Engineer from IIT Madras,  earned his PhD and MBA degrees in the US and has coached mid to senior level executives in Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, SIngapore and USA. 
Jim Oskins

Jim Oskins

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, USA

Jim has experience in Automotive, Semiconductor and Appliance industries;
Most recently, he was focused on use and teaching of applied statistics at Whirlpool to eliminate variation and waste (advanced development, product and process development and continuous improvement);

Jim’s specialties are: 6sigma & OpEx, Data driven decision making, Products, Processes, Algorithms, Control Systems, Planning, Data Acquisition, Analysis, Leading Teams, Software tools 

Parag Mehta

Parag Mehta

Senior Consultant and Lean Six Sigma Trainer, India

Parag Mehta is a Master Black Belt who has trained hundreds of professionals and is an expert in Chemical and Pharma sectors as well as Service organizations. By qualification. he is a Master of Pharmacy in Drug Delivery Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and a PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad.

Practice Areas – Business Modeling, Design of Experiments.

Venugopal R

Venugopal R

Principal Consultant, India

Venugopal R is a Master Black Belt with Engineering, Business Management and SQC qualifications. Venugopal has over 33 years’ experience in Manufacturing and Information Technology Services industries. His diverse industry exposure includes Auto, Consumer durables, Computer peripherals, Banking and IT Services.

Thiruselvam Rajathuray

Thiruselvam Rajathuray

Lean Six Sigma MBB, Australia

Thiruselvam is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 20 years of experience working in various sectors such as Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, Publishing and with Construction firms. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Statistics 

He has worked with business leaders and employees at all levels to gain acceptance and commitment to changes.

Specialities – Lean Six Sigma training, Lean workshops, business / Process improvement projects, Statistics and data visualization, Minitab

Industries – Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, Publishing and Construction

Advisory Board Members

Bernd Stoeth

Bernd Stoeth

Change Management Expert, Germany

Bernd brings over 26 years of experience in managing projects, process improvement, implementation of quality management systems and personnel development.

For the past 24 years, Bernd has focused on training and coaching project managers, including projects applying Work Out, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. He has also extensive experience in the delivery of Six Sigma, Lean, Work-Out, Change Management, Project Management and Facilitation training to all levels of management in different industries. Besides the delivery of training programs, he has led and coached numerous projects in different industries.

Matthieu APRILE

Matthieu APRILE

Founder and CEO, MyOwee, France

Matthieu is Black Belt certified since 2007 (Honeywell). He trained and certified Green Belt candidates within the Aerospace division. He owns an Executive MBA from ESSEC, studying in Paris, Mannheim, Singapore and IIM Ahmedabad. He worked 15+ years in Purchasing conducting ambitious projects in complex organizations all over the world. Purchasing Director EMEA then World Wide (65 sites in 22 countries), his Black Belt project is still used as a best in class methodology in term of optimization. Passionate of value creation and analysis, he is able to adapt any kind of situation and industry. He is recognized for his SMART and efficient leadership.

Dan Weigel

Dan Weigel

Master Black Belt, Lean and Six Sigma, USA

Over the past eighteen years, Dan has worked to coach and educate companies in lean manufacturing techniques including Value Stream Mapping, cellular layout, quick changeover, error proofing, pull systems and visual factory methods. I worked with Toyota and Nippondenso learning directly from experts in TPS. Conducted more than 200 continuous improvement projects in companies including Ford, Michigan Automotive Compressor, Inc. (MACI), Tenneco, Masco Tech, Delco Remy America, Echlin, Flexfab Horizons, Longwood Elastomers, Freudenberg-NOK, and Goodyear.

Ramon Serres Fernandez

Ramon Serres Fernandez

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Spain

Ramon is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and an Automation and Transformation Process Manager with 15+ years experience of countless Business Process improvement, consulting and transformation projects, trained /couched and monitored more than 1000 internal or external employees, and implemented hundreds of Lean Six Sigma projects through various clients, industries, lines of business and regions. He has worked with Xerox for over 10 years and serves as their F&A Europe head in Barcelona.

Specialties: R Programming, Getting and Cleaning Data, Statistical inference, Regression models, Practical Machine learning, developing data products.

Industries – Automation, Finance, Computer Services, Communication and IT.

DJ Kim

DJ Kim

Continuous Improvement/ Lean Master, South Korea

Kim is an experienced CI / Lean Master with in-depth expertise in Lean and TPM deployment, Lean Management, end to end Value Stream improvement, Leaders Standard Work, Kaizen, CI culture building and coaching experience. 

His expertise includes industries of Manufacturing, Oil & Gas operation, Semiconductor, Shipbuilding & offshore. Kim has worked in companies such as Shell, Johnson controls, ASML, Kaizen institute and Productivity Inc.

Specialties – Lean and TPM deployment, Lean Management, Kaizen, CI culture building and coaching

Industries – Manufacturing, Oil & Gas operation, Semiconductor, Shipbuilding & offshore

Pascal Compigne

Pascal Compigne

Professor of applied statistics, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Pascal Compigne has rich work experience in Pharmaceutical, Chemistry and Electronics fields. He is highly competent in Project Management, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Pascal has solid experience in varied and demanding sectors. In his previous works, he has defined policies and quality strategies and directed the process systems towards customer satisfaction. Pascal has lead and trained teams on concrete projects in different departments of the client companies e.g. Finance, Engineering and Supply Chain etc. He regularly coaches and certifies those responsible for industrial performance and continuous improvement.

Ryan Meyer

Ryan Meyer

Head of Helathineer Performance Systems - Americas

Ryan is a certified LSS MBB and has transactional experience in both Sales and Operations. He has led several cost reduction projects in each of the functional areas. In addition, I have led several process redesign projects.

Specialties: Specialties include sales and marketing, data collection, finance, analysis, and sustained process improvement. Ryan has focused on DMAIC and operational excellence throughout his career. 

Joseph A. Hopper

Joseph A. Hopper

Director - India, TOC Institute.

Joseph A. Hopper is an accomplished international lecturer and consultant specializing in supply chain, operations planning and inventory management. A former Director at the Indian School of Business Hyderabad, Joseph created the Experiential Learning Program (ELP) and managed the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum. He has personally overseen over 100 consulting engagements for a wide variety of clients such as HP, Bombardier, Sony, Citibank, Goodyear, Maersk, SAP, SEBI, Microsoft, Mattel, ITC, Amazon.com, Google, ICICI Ventures and GE. Joseph holds an M.B.A. from ISB Hyderabad (Dean’s list) and a B.A. in International Business from King College.

Practice Areas – Theory of Constraints

Silvio Ronco

Silvio Ronco

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Italy

Silvio is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with broad experience in performance improvement programs. He is a  and has proven experience in training, coaching and mentoring. As a Professional Corporate Coach, he is specialized in team coaching and training of Green Belts and Black Belts. He has worked for KPMG, Deloitte and P&I consulting, among others. 

Specialities: Lean Six Sigma, Corporate Coaching, Mentoring, Business Process Redesign, Project Management, Business Planning. 

Industries – Sales, Accounting, Management Consulting

Bolivar Verbel Revollo

Bolivar Verbel Revollo

Continuous Improvement Expert, Chile

Bolivar is an Industrial Administrator from the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, with academic background and experience in Business Process Improvement, Project Management, and Organizational Transformation. He is a Certified Master Black Belt in Lean & Six Sigma and a Certified Scrum Master. He is also trained in Standards of PMI PMBOK, Change Management, Risk Management and recently in ‘Strategies for Leading Successful Change Initiatives’ from Harvard University.

He has 12+ years of experience, leading and/or coaching projects mainly in Latin America, but also in the USA and Poland with responsibilities and focus in Europe/ Asia/ Africa initiatives. Currently employed in AC Nielsen Company, previous experiences include companies such as Deloitte, DHL Express, Mercedes Benz – Kauffman and COTECMAR. 

Specialties – Business Process Improvement, Project Management, and Organizational Transformation

Industries – Consumer Intelligence, Home Panels and Omnishopper, Automotive, Management Consulting

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