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Process Engineer

BIOGRAPHY:

Vlado is a technician, in body and soul. As a recent graduate, he took on the position of quality manager in the automotive company MOBIS Slovakia. Subsequently, he worked as a leader in the production of cable harnesses in the company Yazaki Wiring Technologies Slovakia. After seven years, the time came for a change and Vlado has chosen a path for improving and optimizing production processes in the company BEL Slovensko cheese factory, in the production of processed cheeses. If he is surrounded by people who have the same blood type as him, that is, Lean +, then every obstacle becomes a milestone that moves him further.

Production Manager

BIOGRAPHY: 
 
Robert has more than 20 years of professional experience in various operational leadership roles within several industries. He began his career in the electronic industry, LG. Philips Displays. He moved to automotive industry, VALEO Slovakia, as Technical Manager and member of the management team responsible for production startup. He spent the next period of time in the mechanical industry, OJALA Slovakia, where he took over responsibility for the factory as Managing Director. Robert is currently working as Production Manager for SWEP Slovakia, a world-leading supplier of brazed plate heat exchangers, where he is also responsible for the area of Lean activities. He is an honorary member of Lean institute Slovakia. He is passionate about challenging ‘status quo’ and he likes to cultivate the spirit of innovative thinking.  

President

BIOGRAPHY:

Sérgio Caldeirinha is the President of the Lean Academy Portugal. Over the course of his management career, he has gained experience applying Production Systems and Lean Thinking and Practice Principles in multitude of environments. Sérgio holds a Mechanical Engineering degree, an Executive MBA and a Post-Graduation in Lean Practitioner. He has also worked in the field of Education, where he has been actively delivered programs in several Portuguese universities, mastering the actual and the next generation of leaders and decision makers.

Logistics Manager &  Business System Leader

BIOGRAPHY:

Ivo is dedicated to process improvement for more than 10 years. During his professional life he realized, how important is to concentrate on the human part of process improvement. Especially how to engage people so they work as a true team on solving a specific problem. From 2016 he became an „Advanced Practitioner“ on facilitation at Danaher, where he has coordinated dozens of workshops and trained more than hundred future facilitators. Now it's already 1 year since he took over the role of Logistics Manager &  Business System Leader, so he is responsabile for continuous improvement globally across all the Kongsberg´s sites. 

Lean Coordinator

BIOGRAPHY: 
 
Jozef has 10 years of first-hand experience in international manufacturing companies - Automotive and Medical Technology. He started his career with a challenge such as Automotive, where he focused on the design, planning, implementation and improvement of production processes. He had an exceptional opportunity to be present at the birth of a new plant on a green field in Romania, where he could apply and improve the best practice of his parent branch in Slovakia. Process improvement appealed to him so much that he decided to expand his knowledge in this area. He started in the MedTech industry as an Industrial Engineer, what allowed him to get to know this type of industry in the various countries where his current employer ConvaTec operates. He currently leads the Lean team at the Michalovce plant in Slovakia, where he strives for people in this plant to look at their processes with a "Lean look". 

Continuous Improvement Manager

BIOGRAPHY: 
Maroš as a Lean 6 sigma Black Belt is Lean fan by body and soul. A man whose continuous improvement is a lifelong motto. That´s why he tries to implement this approach within various processes during his career, before it was 2 years in Magna Exteriors/Interiors and currently almost 7 years in Antolin Trnava. He had the opportunity to look into all portfolio of the processes - production and non-production. By applying the Lean philosophy and the COSMICS methodology, he participated in the transformation of Antolin Trnava to World Class within the Grupo Antolin company. 

Sr. Manager Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

BIOGRAPHY: 

13 years ago Tomas started his career as Operation Engineer in the fascinating world of Hi-Tech Electron Microscopes. His motivation to get things done, admiration to technology and friendly mind steered his career path towards people management. Over the years Tomas continuously grown his responsibility and teams up to the current Advanced Manufacturing Engineering role. Tomas is now fully dedicated to lead the Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno site transformation into automated, highly productive and digitized factory of the future. 

Continuous Improvement Senior Manager Europe & USA

BIOGRAPHY: 
Slim started his journey in Continuous Improvement 20 years ago as a black belt, in JCI automotive electronics, few years later, he was initiated to the Lean Manufacturing and found that the two approaches were completing each other for reaching the Operational Excellence, since that time, he liked working with the teams, locally, regionally and globally, striving for Operational Excellence, and Manufacturing Performance, starting in JCI Automotive Electronics then in Visteon. 

CEO

BIOGRAPHY: 

Martin worked at Siemens as the head of the radio network development department, and as a manager at the Slovak branch of REC Global, where he later served as Chairman of the business strategy board. He has founded and manages the Slovak technology company M2M Solutions and actually he acts as Vice President of the Association of the Automotive Industry of the Slovak Republic and Member of the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Science, Technology and Innovation. Martin is currently mainly engaged in the development of new products and innovations in the field of mobility and production (Industry 4.0). 

Controller

BIOGRAPHY:

Giulia Cazzaniga is a business controller in FPZ, a company specialized in the production of fluid handling solutions.

After a Business Administration degree, she got a Master of science in Accounting, Auditing and Control at the Bocconi University.

Since 2020 she has been with FPZ. During these two years first results of the Lean Transformation in FPZ production department are clear to see and Giulia are helping the organization to measure the economic benefits introducing management accounting methodologies and tools.

Senior Consultant

BIOGRAPHY: 

Tomáš has experience in manufacturing since 2005.  He knows Lean Six Sigma and advanced statistical methods. His skills include training in a manufacturing  environment and Minitab training. Led projects and implementation of continuous improvement. His diploma work dealt with the use of statistical methods in manufacturing, particularly using Design of Experiments. 
 

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

BIOGRAPHY: 

Lukas has 10 years of experience as Supply Chain Manager working for international companies in various fields such as Automotive, Electronics and Food industry. His ability to see the production and logistics as a process regardless of the type of industry inspired him to study Lean Six Sigma. He is certified Black Belt by University of Michigan. Since leaving his manufacturing career behind 6 years ago he has been working on improving processes for Amazon.com in Bratislava. 

Process Development Manager for Central & East Europe

BIOGRAPHY: 

Jakub is a graduate of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He has experience from various industries like Aerospace, Defence or Automotive before joining ASSA ABLOY, where he works as a Process Development Manager for Central & East Europe. His main responsibilities are digitalization, process mapping or leading improvement projects. Specially focused on back-office processes. His personal motto is ,,Take the robot out of a human”. 

CEO, Executive Director
GE Aviation Turboprop

BIOGRAPHY: 

Milan has 20 years of extensive business experience in both tactical and strategic management. He currently works as a President at General Electric CR & SK and also holds a position of CEO and Executive Director at GE Aviation Turboprop leading a standalone P&L including intensive R&D and aircraft engine production and services. He also holds the post of Vice-President at American Chamber of Commerce. Slapak began his career with GE in 1999 with GE Transportation, later transitioning to GE Healthcare, then to General Electric’s corporate division as Country Manager for the Eastern European and Nordic regions. Since 2009 he has been with GE Aviation. He completed various international assignments including US, Italy, China and France. He earned his master degree in Operations & Management and a PhD degree in E-Business from CVUT in Prague. 

CEO

BIOGRAPHY:

Austin is a certified six-sigma black belt with a passion for eliminating waste.  By training he is a chemist, with degree and doctorate from University of Leeds in the UK and has spent most of his working life developing and improving processes, using facts and data. He has been with Minitab for 15 years and is a domain expert in all Minitab products solutions and services.   

CEO

BIOGRAPHY:

Luděk has over 10 years of experience in improving business processes and designing software solutions for manufacturing & SCM. He has worked on global digitization projects, serving clients in e.g. Automotive, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Goods industries. Although his main area of expertise is technology, he always puts people first. He believes that employee engagement and satisfaction are the key elements in building a culture of continuous improvement in organizations. It is also the reason why he is so passionate about the user experience of the final solutions: he wants to make sure that they bring real value to the people working with them.

Principle Consultant and Trainer

BIOGRAPHY:

Štěpán has more than 7 years of experience as a Lean Six Sigma trainer and consultant under his Visual Consulting brand. Previously engaged in consulting in the field of digital strategy and processes, he is currently engaged in connecting these two worlds through digital solutions and the use of data analysis. He also acts as a representative of iObeya on the Czech and Slovak markets. 
 

Lean Manager

Jiří likes to work with people & for people.  After his international studies, he gained experience at Bosch and Mann+Hummel in areas of Purchasing, Project Management and LEAN. Purchasing was for him always relationship oriented, Project Management not just about milestones, KPIs, but again about people and cross-functional teams. This experience created a good foundation for his latest role as a LEAN Manager. Since 2019, Jiří was entrusted with a team of Lean Experts, Strategic Project Office Manager and Cross functional Teams to achieve all targets in the „Lean Transformation“ of Mann+Hummel CZ. This plant with some 1100-1200 employees became recently a LEAN model plant and training center within the Mann+Hummel group worldwide. Jiří believes, that the right way of working with people & for people is the key success factor in every project, program and also in the Lean transformation.  

WCM Manager

BIOGRAPHY:

Peter studied industrial engineering at the University of Žilina. He worked in the engineering and plastics industry, where he was responsible for the automation of production processes. He moved from injection molding machines to the food industry for the Kofola company, where he also heads the WCM team. He dedicated 8 years to the improvement of the introduction and processes of industrial engerneering methods across all of Kofola production plants. 8 years dedicated to process improvement and introduction of industrial engineering methods across all Kofola production plants. 

Plant Director

BIOGRAPHY:

Jana has more than 15 years of experience in FMCG business. She earned the master and PhD. degree in food technology and spent most of her carrier in the role of operational manager and the board member in dairy industry. More than 4 years she was working as the plant operational manager in Cloetta, which is a leading confectionary company in Northern Europe. During her stay in Cloetta, Jana participated in the advanced lean leadership program. In 2020 Jana decided to step back in the dairy industry and she has become a plant director of Zvolenská mliekareň s.r.o. One of her goals in the new role is to implement the lean practice across the company.  Jana has been closely cooperating with Slovak agricultural university in Nitra, where she lectures and tries to connect university students with practice as much as possible.