Michel Berthus

accountable for all LEAN Initiatives (LEAN Office and LEAN Design) in the 30 Product Technology and R&D Centers Worldwide (3.500 people), in all Corporate Technology Functions and its linked Business partners and for the set-up of the LEAN Office and LEAN Design Pillars (Centers of Excellence/ Competence).

Celerant is a global Operational Strategy and Implementation consultancy specializing in performance improvement. Main Responsibilities: • Program implementation and relationship with Clients during transformations • Supporting the Operational Transformation Service Line, developing Lean and Six Sigma value proposition.

Member of Corporate Global Operations Team, located at the Corporate Europe Headquarters in The Netherlands. Reporting to the Global Ops/ Enterprise Lean Sigma Leader. Leadership Team member of European Supply Chain & Operations. Responsible for Enterprise Lean Sigma (ELS) in Europe: across all Functions of four Product Divisions, about 6.000 people in 73 locations.

International Sales Organisation (ISO) Cluster. Worldwide sales of €1.0bn, 690 employees in 37 locations, serving 132 countries. Organised in four sub-clusters: MEA (middle-East and Africa), APAC, Eastern Europe, and Latin America). I am located in Singapore and member of the ISO APAC Region Customer Marketing Management Team. • Responsible to deploy Promotion-Effectiveness Company wide corporate initiative, globally in the International Sales countries, as well as in some Emerging Growth countries

Responsibilities: • Facilitate the Business Strategy Review and Planning process with the Management Team: Diagnosis, Strategic Changes Initiatives, Programme implementation. Chair the Business Improvement Steering committee • Incorporate DFSS in product development, with special focus on all front-end Consumer innovation processes • Manage the Compliance Verification of Project Milestones and develop Methods and Tools.

Quality Manager, reporting to the CEO-General Manager; Philips Innovative Applications, UpMarket Displays, Belgium: Euro1.0bn global sales,550 employees. Responsibility: • Manage the Business Process Improvement Cycle: Audits, Improvement Plans, Leadership Team and Resources, Scorecard performance indicators, Review and execution • Integrate the Philips Business Excellence framework (BEST-EFQM) and own the QMS • Provide Coaching regarding Quality, Excellence and Process

High-End Global Development Center TV, Belgium, Flanders. Ten global projects /year, 40 types of products, annual budget Euro35m, TO Euro1.0b, 350 development people. Responsibility: • Lead the Business Programming and Operations Planning process as input to the bi-yearly Global Program Board • Manage a Project (US product) as heavyweight project manager • Run the Project Office: portfolio monitoring, change control and risk management, metrics and reporting, milestone Reviews

HANDS-ON ON-SITE modules in various manufacturing / services companies on: Lean Thinking, TPS, TWI, Improvement methods, Stability and Variations, Kata & Kaizen, Visual mgt, Demand, Capacity Inventory Mgt, Flow and Pull, Factory Physics, Efficiency, Layout & TPM, Leadership and Change (Deming)

Major in Corporate Strategy

Mechanics, Electro-mechanics, Robotics, Mechatronics, computer Simulation