LEAN TRANSFORMATION THE TOYOTA WAY. · SIX SIGMA MASTER BLACK BELT. · 15 YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE. Education · Bachelor of Mechanics and Administration. · MBA from UANL. · Master Black Belt certified by ITESM. Based on his broad experience, Gustavo is expert applying a suitable approach for Continuous Improvement needed on the different organizations from a Business results optic, becoming an effective Coach for Top Management and support for The Toyota Way roles. Gustavo has learned The Toyota Way directly from its Author, Dr. Jeff Liker, and has applied it on Gemba as a Team with many Executives from Toyota specialized on General Management, TPM, Lean Mfg Tools, and Supply Chain. Gustavo has taught the Toyota Production System at all organizational levels and has applied over 50 companies of different sizes: Lean Leadership Systems (Hoshin Kanri, FMDS, and 8-Step Problem Solving), Toyota Kata for development, Supply Chain Management, TPM, Lean Manufacturing tools (5S’s, SW, SMED, Jidoka, Poka Yoke, Heijunka, JIT, etc.), and Lean Office approach. On Six Sigma, Gustavo as Master Black Belt has trained and certified +500 Black Belts, Green Belts, and Yellow Belts. Gustavo has +20 years of experience on Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality in large companies: Motor Wheel (Automotive), Kodak, Philips, Daltile, American Standard. He has +12 years of experience as Vice/President Staff as Continuous Improvement Director for American Standard México and Master Black Belt Champion for Daltile México. He has deployed programs that have achieved +$110 Million USD in savings with +3,000 projects on all departments: R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, Logistics, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Energy. Over his 22 years experience, Gustavo has been exposed to many different organizations applying suitable Lean approaches on a variety of systems with diversity on leadership styles. Master Degree Professor at Tec Milenio and Professor at ICAMI Business School. Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma lecture in México on various Universities and Forums.

+25 YEARS TOYOTA EXPERIENCE Education · Mechanical Engineering with Mayor on Business Management. Jeff Merris have worked for Toyota Motor Manufacturing for 24 years and as an independent consultant for the past 2 years. During my career I have implemented TPS (lean production) in the Automotive (Toyota), snack food, beverage and the airline industries. Primary focus has been improvement in Production Planning, Internal Logistics (conveyance), External Logistics, Manufacturing and Finance. He has experience on create 1, 3, 5 year business plan, develop Strategies to integrate current business models with new business, develop and implement internal and external logistics strategies, develop and implement cross – dock (warehouse) strategies, develop and Implement Short and Long Term Production Plans to meet customer needs, develop production plan to meet TAKT time, teach & coach Toyota Problem Solving, develop and Implement Kanban Systems(material replenishment), develop manufacturing support equipment and develop internal delivery dollies. Merris has a Mayor on Mechanical Engineering by University of Kentucky (1983-1987), Major on Business Management by Northwood University (2005-2007). He was Production Control Assistant Manager from 2005 to 2007, Assistant Manager Production Control from 1997 to 2003, and Team Leader, Production Engineer (1988-2003) – at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky.