Dan Kutz President SBTI

Dan is one of the first six project managers and consultants to teach and deploy Six Sigma for SBTI. He has taught and consulted with client companies worldwide, including Eaton Corporation, Cummins Inc., Cooper-Cameron, Entergy and BASF Automotive Coatings, personally instructing 15 Black Belt courses and 17 Executive level sessions.

Currently President of SBTI, he oversees SBTI’s company strategy development and execution as well as several key client accounts.

He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Business Administration from Marquette University, a MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and a MBA both from the University of Texas at Austin.

Randy Perry Master Consultant SBTI

Randy joined SBTI in 2001 and is a Master Consultant and Program Manager in Design, Operations and Transactional Lean Six Sigma Methods with significant experience in project implementation. Randy has consulted globally with various Fortune 500 including Eastman Chemical, BASF, Tyco, Celanese, Seagate, Fairchild Semiconductor, WR Grace, AOC Chemicals and Osram Sylvania.

In 2006 Randy coauthored a Design for Six Sigma book entitled Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma. The book has become accepted as a standard for the implementation of DFSS bymany Fortune 500 corporations.

Randy has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina University. He also has a MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Dr. Ian Wedgwood VP New Services and Technologies SBTI

Ian joined SBTI in 2001. He launched SBTI’s Healthcare Division and has facilitated multiple healthcare deployments.

He has both led and facilitated numerous deployments in other industries including electronics, engineered materials, medical devices, chemicals. He has trained and mentored Executives, Champions, and Belts in DFSS, Six Sigma and Lean.

Prior to SBTI, Ian worked for Invensys PLC, where he led their highly successful Lean Design for Six Sigma deployment. Some 380+ Design Belts within Power Systems yielded a 65 times return in less than two years.

Ian has oversight an extensive intellectual property library and the development of new services and technologies. Ian holds a Ph.D. and a First-Class Honors degree in Applied Mathematics from Scotland’s St. Andrew's University.

Ed Barrows Strategy and Performance Coach

For nearly 20 years, Ed has had hands-on strategic planning, strategy execution and performance improvement experience in the private and public/ non-profit sectors.

He's helped senior management teams improve their ability to plan strategy, manage against the plan and put smart systems in place to keep organizations moving in the right direction.

Ed currently lectures at Babson College teaching Operations Management and also at Boston College where he teaches Strategic Management. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the School of Management at Boston University and an MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Currently pursuing a DBA at Cranfield University’s School of Management in England.