Ryan is the Senior Vice President, Operations Practice of Lean Focus. He is a proven business leader with extensive experience in general management, supply chain management, process improvement, strategic marketing, business development, data analysis, and solution presentations. He has led teams through both the creation of innovative solutions to challenging problems as well as the execution of improved processes that ultimately generates measurable results. He is an accomplished commercial leader and Continuous Improvement specialist with 20+ years of experience in applying Lean principles across executive, commercial and operational functions.

Ryan has led the application of Lean principles starting with the Danaher Business System (DBS) and continuously applying lean solutions across operational & supply chain teams as well as in commercial and P&L environments. Ryan holds a B.S. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering  from Cornell University as well as both a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Masters of Engineering (MEM) from Northwestern University.