Paul Akers
- Role
- Business Owner at Fastcap Llc
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paul Akers
Paul Akers is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, speaker, Lean maniac! He is…
Experience
Business Owner
Jan 1997 — Present
Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for the professional builder. FastCap was started in Paul’s garage in 1997 when he simply “fixed what bugged him” and developed his first product: the Fastcap Cover Cap. From humble beginnings, and no MBA, FastCap has thousands of distributors worldwide in over 40 countries. Paul’s intense curiosity on how things could be improved paved the way for him to become a prolific innovator and today he holds many US and International patents. FastCap launches approximately 20-30 innovative products per year and has won business of the year in and 2010. Through a series of twists and turns he discovered Lean and the Toyota Production System (TPS) which was instrumental in propelling FastCap as an example of Lean manufacturing and culture, followed by thousands of companies around the world.
Skills
- Fine Woodworking
- Carpentry
- Marketing Strategy
- Lean Manufacturing
- Trade Shows
- Lean Thinking
- Contractors
- Residential Homes
- Budgets
- Space Planning
- Kitchen & Bath Design
- Retail
- Wood
- Management
- Executive Management
- Sales
- Countertops
- Entrepreneurship
- New Business Development
- Building Materials
- Materials
- Customer Service
- Flooring
- Millwork
- Pricing
- Strategic Planning
- Lean Management
- Manufacturing
- Key Account Management
- Contract Negotiation
- Account Management
- Construction
- Business Planning
- Green Building
- Negotiation
- Doors
- Sales Management
- Product Development
- Renovation
- Operations Management
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