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ENG JUAY YEO (E.J.)

Director, Operations Practice

Eng Juay Yeo (E.J.) is a senior operations and business transformation leader with more than 32 years of global experience driving Lean transformation, Commercial Excellence, and enterprise strategy across complex, regulated, and high-growth environments. A hands-on leader, he champions true Gemba leadership—personally facilitating Kaizens and leading large-scale global change initiatives.


Early in his career, he led the full Lean conversion of a traditional manufacturing facility, earning industry recognition for the transformation. He has since facilitated a broad range of initiatives, from annual operations strategy deployment to value stream Standard Work Kaizens. A strong advocate of coaching teams in Practical Problem Solving (PSP), he focuses on building capability to deliver measurable results.

His leadership of JAPAC Commercial DBS helped establish a Lean culture across commercial and service organizations, embedding process discipline and operational thinking beyond manufacturing. He has held senior leadership roles including Senior Director, Global Manufacturing; Senior Director, JAPAC Commercial and Global Operations DBS; and most recently, Senior Director, Global Operations DBS and PMO.


E.J. holds a BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from London South Bank University and an MBA from the University of Manchester, UK.

E.J. is part of our Operations Practice where we know that when operations are designed to flow, performance stabilizes naturally.

Lean Focus builds the systems and daily disciplines that eliminate firefighting and turn execution across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity, into a lasting competitive advantage.


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E.J. Yeo’s Industry Experience

PRECISION ENGINEERING

SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING

ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING

MEDICAL DEVICES AND LIFE SCIENCES

DIAGNOSTICS

& MORE