Brian Atwater, PhD, Utah State University

Charlene Spoede Budd, PhD, Baylor University

Dr. Charlene Spoede Budd is currently a Professor Emeritus of accounting at Baylor University where she held the Emerson O. Henke Chair in Accounting. She has authored and co-authored five cost accounting and throughput accounting principle-based texts. She has received several awards for her cutting-edge methods and has been nationally recognized for significant contributions to the AICPA.

James Holt, PhD, Washington State University

Dr. James R. Holt is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management at Washington State University. He teaches Organizational Behavior, Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering Economics, Simulation, Information Systems, Constraints Management and other special topics. Serving as department head at the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio, he holds a BS from Utah State University, an MS from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

Ted Hutchin, PhD, Nottingham University, TOC-Lean Institute

One of the Founders of The TOC-LEAN Institute of europe, is the author of three books about the application of TOC. An Industrial Fellow with the University of Nottingham, where he implements change programs and lectures on Operations, Supply Chain Management, and has also supervised research projects. He has researched the management of change for over twenty years and written many papers for conferences throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

Russ M. Pirasteh, PhD, Sanmina-SCI Corporation

Dr. Russ Pirasteh is currently Director of Operations Excellence & Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) for Sanmina-SCI Corporation-LRS Division. He has held executive, staff and line positions with 23 years of experience in implementation of continuous improvement systems in manufacturing and transactional environments. He is a Certified Master Black Belt- Lean Six Sigma, and Certified Lean Master.