Filtration Group CEO and leadership

Business leader with extensive experience working with private equity-owned businesses. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and MBA Candidate at Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

CPO | Executive VP Supply Chain | VP Sourcing leading diversified global Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, and Category Management organizations within Fortune 500 companies. Drive large scale organizational transformation to leverage synergies across business units. Implement lean processes and best practices across division and regional operations. Create high performing teams and a collaborative culture in matrix organizations. Proven record of enhancing operating margins while improving working capital and cash flow. Driving operational excellence in supply chain performance utilizing lean and continuous improvement tools and processes. Driving total cost of ownership | TCO savings through global sourcing in China, India, South East Asia (SEA) Eastern Europe and Mexico.Passionate about creating transformational change, building empowered multi disciplined teams and improving organizational effectiveness in diversified industrial manufacturing organizations. Create vision for Corporate Sourcing organizations encompassing Supplier Management, Global Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, and Supplier Development. Lead deployment of best in class process, policy and governance across business units, divisions and regions. Hands on execution structuring project management, metrics, and goals that impact P&L performance utilizing standard work to streamline processes. Creating customer value through supplier rationalization, complexity reduction and VAVE | Design to Value engineering collaboration. Responsible for acquisition due diligence, synergy identification and capture, and integrationExecutive Vice President, ISM ChicagoAdjunct Professor of Procurement & Supply Chain at DePaul UniversityMasters, Engineering Management | Northwestern University; Masters, Mechanical Engineering | University of Illinois; MBA Finance | DePaul UniversityMember ASME, SAE, and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) societies