Srinivas R. Chakravarthy is a professor and interim head of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan. He has a PhD in Operations Research, an MS in Statistics, and a BS in Mathematics. His research interests are in applied stochastic models, algorithmic probability, queuing, reliability, and inventory. He has published more than 95 papers in leading journals and presented several papers at national and international conferences. He has received NSF awards and organized the first and second International Conferences on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models. He received Kettering University Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award and Kettering University's Outstanding Researcher Award. He is a member of INFORMS, ASA, IIE, and Sigma Xi Research Society. He is currently an area editor for Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, an associate editor of IAPQR Transactions, and a member of the advisory boards of many journals.
Brad Cotton is the owner and MD of Cotton Innovations Ltd. He worked as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry in Coventry, UK, with Land Rover cars as an apprentice to the R&D and New Product Development Offices from 1978 to 1982. He led the R&D of component approval for all vehicles from 1982 to 1987. He moved to Jaguar Cars, initially to develop and lead their development programs in air bag systems and later to develop their core testing and capability protocols till 2004. As the component test center manager for both Jaguar and Land Rover, he managed the R&D vehicle crash and components safety labs with respect to protocol, office, and capability alignment.
He holds a Six Sigma Black Belt for Jaguar from 1998 to 2000. He has delivered projects that saved over one million Euros for Jaguar and Land Rover. He also holds a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with Smallpeice Enterprises Ltd, Leamington Spa, UK. Later, he worked with Smallpeice Enterprises, Accenture, and KM&T as a Master Black Belt.
Graham Errington is a Chartered Chemist, Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute, Chartered Quality Professional. He is also a member of the American Society for Quality. He holds an MBA degree and is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
He has over 30 years of experience in quality management and improvement, and has applied statistics in metals, semiconductor, polymer processing, automotive, and FMCG industries. Currently, he is the head of statistics and data management at British American Tobacco R & D center, Southampton, UK.
Mark Fidell has wide experience in training lean manufacturing and transactional, Lean Sigma, project management, and change management at the Master Black Belt level. A very experienced coach, he has supported participants in many sectors using Lean/Six Sigma frameworks for accelerated project delivery and full accreditations using Minitab Statistical Analysis and Quality Companion packages.
He has good experience in the industry, having worked at Textron David Brown Gears, FLS Aerospace, Ingersoll Dresser fluid handling, and Parsons Power Generation from green field sites to complete turnkey projects.
Gary Jing is an ASQ Fellow and MBA, and is a Lean Six Sigma deployment leader and Master Black Belt with extensive expertise in continuous improvement, quality, and reliability. As the founding MBB, he successfully anchored Lean Six Sigma deployment at two companies, Seagate TCO and Entegris. He created and managed the Lean Sigma group at Entegris. He is currently an MBB and DFSS deployment leader at TE Connectivity. He serves on the Editorial Review Board for Six Sigma Forum Magazine. He was an IQPC MBB of the Year finalist and trained dozens of Black Belts. He has authored/co-authored more than 20 journal articles and book chapters and holds two patents, and frequently speaks at conferences about Lean Six Sigma. You can take a look at his profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ggaryjing.