MR. EDGAR ‘ED’ FLORES, MBA

Founder and Lead Consultant, InnoSigma Consulting, Inc.

Senior Consultant and Trainer-Contractor for Kaizen Institute Consulting Group Asia-Pacific, FountainHead Technologies, Inc., Neville-Clark Philippines, Inc., and Customized Training Solutions Singapore (CTS Singapore)

Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines Diliman Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB)

Level 5 Facilitator, Philippine Institute of Supply Chain Management Association (PISCMA)

Professional Career:

Former Regional Lead for Continuous Improvement, SHELL Business Operations (2012 – 2016)

Former Regional Director for Continuous Improvement, PFIZER (2008 – 2012)

Former Managing Consultant – P.E.R.A., NEVILLE-CLARKE in the Philippines (2007 – 2008)

Former Assistant Vice President for Operations, GENPACT in the Philippines (2006 – 2007)

Production and Continuous Improvement Manager, OPTODEV, Inc. – ESSILOR GROUP (1993 – 2006)

Production Supervisor, MITSUMI Philippines, Inc. (1990 – 1993)

Maintenance Foreman, CONVERSE Philippines, Inc. (1987 – 1990)

Key Achievements

• Deployed continuous improvement programs for top multinational corporations (MNCs) in 13 countries in Asia-Pacific
• Trained and coached more than 500 Green and Black Belters for the past 10 years
• Co-led the start-up of a manufacturing site in the Philippines and supported its start-up in Mexico and France.
• Facilitated workshops involving Vice Presidents and other leadership roles on strategic planning, project prioritization and tollgate reviews.
• Streamlined finance accounts payable processes resulting to 40 Fixed-term Employee (FTE) reduction and more than $20M in savings.
• Completed projects in manufacturing, sales and marketing, finance, and logistics resulting to cumulative savings of more than $100M for the past 10 years
• Managed and led production departments and offices numbering to more than 500 people.

Education and Training

• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Degree Holder, Ateneo Graduate School of Business (2012)
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Degree Holder , Far Eastern University Manila (1987)
• Mini-MBA Holder, ESSEC Business School in France and Nanyang Institute of Technology (Nanyang Technological University) in Singapore (2005)
• Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, Rath & Strong Management Consultants in France (2010)
• Black Belt in Six Sigma, Six Sigma Consultants in America (2005)
• Design For Six Sigma (DFSSS) Train-the-Trainer Course, Neville Clarke in Malaysia (2008)
• Lean Continuous Improvement (CI) Manager Train-the-Trainer Course in Risjwik, Netherlands (2014)
• Creative Problem Solving Train-the-Trainer (Simplex ) in London, The United Kingdom (2011)
• Kaizen Event Facilitation, Shell Philippines (2015)
• Lead Auditor Certification in ISO QMS, EMS, EHS, and TS16949, Neville Clarke Philippines (2001)