Gyanesh K. Gupta

About Gyanesh K. Gupta

Executive Summary: I partner with CEOs and COOs in manufacturing-intensive environments to translate strategy into disciplined execution on the shop floor and across the value stream. With senior experience as a COO, VP, and Global Operational Excellence Leader, I help organizations improve safety, reliability, throughput, and cost by strengthening operating systems, developing leaders, and embedding Lean Six Sigma thinking supported by practical digital enablement. My focus is building capable teams and scalable performance systems that deliver sustainable results—not short-term fixes. Little More Details:I am a Seasoned manufacturing leader, an artist, author and student of Lean and Six Sigma philosophy of Operational Excellence with 1. 25+ years of international, 2. in over 20 plus countries\' manufacturing locations, 3. automotive OEM (Ford and Fiat group), Tier 1 automotive Supplier (Adams) and CPG companies (Kimberly Clark and Pure Fishing), 4. and affecting value delivery of over $40+ million annual hard cost savings in the past five years, by leading teams to pursue zero loss goal by addressing waste, variation and most importantly mindset. Expertise of customizing and deploying Operational Excellence Strategies using1. Toyota Lean Production System2. Danaher Business Systems3. Ford and Mazda Production Systems4. Fiat Production System5. McKinsey Operational Excellence model6. Digital transformation• A person with deep hands-on experience in using “best of old and new ways of working” to overcome challenges presented by either people (adult learning or mindset related issues) or processes, and produce steadily increasing hard savings value (average $40+ millions over last five years) to affect P&L • Having passion, humility, dedication, strategic and tactical mindset with hard skills to partner with our most valuable assets – people – to build a learning and continuously improving, value producing customer-centric organizationGo Digital OPEX

Experience

1. Sr Director - Operational Excellence

   Pure Fishing

   Jun 2025 — Present

   Leading the organization to drive pursuit of zero losses by addressing Waste, Variation in processes and most importantly mindset of people that it is possible to achieve that goal.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  M.S./Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering

  1987 — 1993

• University of Michigan

  Post Doctoral Research Assoicate

  1993 — 1996

• Wayne State University

  Masters, Engineering Management

  2001 — 2004

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  BTech, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Fmea
• Quality Management
• Program Management
• Six Sigma
• Product Launch
• Product Development
• Supply Management
• Kaizen
• Operational Excellence
• Increased Profitability
• 5s
• Improve First Time Throughput
• Manufacturing
• Value Stream Mapping
• Devise and Execute Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Engineering
• Supply Chain
• Apqp
• Ppap
• Gd&T
• Root Cause Analysis
• Increase Productivity
• Reduce Scrap
• Management
• Design for Manufacturing
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Supplier Quality
• Improve Quality
• Lean Manufacturing
• Improve Morale
• Continuous Improvement
• Turnaround Performance of Operation and People