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Ann Esain

Ann leads the health and service group at LERC. Since 2001 she has undertaken extensive research in the UK and overseas healthcare sector, working with trusts and government agencies in their quest for improvement in patient service.

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Barry Evans

Barry joined LERC in 2005 from Tesco where he had been a lean champion. His early career involved a variety of roles in logistics an ddistribution.

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Claire Gardner
Claire manages the Centre's education programmes, which include the MSc in Lean Operations, the Modular MBA in Supply Chain Management, short and executive programmes in lean thinking & lean events.

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Donna Samuel

Donna has worked at LERC since its formation, after spending some years as a buyer for local government and in telecommunications.

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John Bicheno

At LERC John directs the MSc in Lean Operations, and has been involved in a number of research programmes, such as the LEAP project.

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John Darlington

An accountant originally, John qualified as a "Lean and Six Sigma Expert" through the Renault Institute of Quality Management and as a "Jonah" through the Goldratt Institute.

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John Seddon
John is a Visiting Professor at LERC and is managing Director of Vanguard Ltd.  He specialises in applying lean-realed principles and approaches to the service environment and regualrly contributes to LERC's education and communication activities.
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Keivan Zokaei

Keivan joined the centre in 2004, after completing his Masters degree at Warwick University in Engineering Business Management.

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Mark Francis

Mark is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies and an MBA and PhD from Cardiff University.

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Maxine Ballam

Max joined LERC in 2007 to work on the eLean Project

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Owen James

Owen James was part of the first MSc in Lean Operations intake at Cardiff in 1999, and joined the centre in 2000, where he has since been involved in LEARN2 and the Accelerate Wales initiative. He is currently woring on the eLean Project

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Pauline Found

Pauline graduated with a B.A. from the Open University and a B.Sc. (Hons) from University of Wales in Cardiff in 1984.

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Peter Hines

Peter was a co-founder of the Centre and holds the Chair in Supply Chain Management.

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Robert Mason

Robert is a lecturer in logistics at Cardiff Business School and a senior researcher in logistics and operations management and the EPSRC funded Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre.

 

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Sally Tranter

Sally is the centre’s research coordinator.

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Sarah Lethbridge
Sarah joined the LERC in September 2005 as a Senior Research Associate working in the Health and Services Team.

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Shirlie Lovell

Shirlie is the Secretary for the Lean Enterprise Research Centre.

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Simon Elias

Simon's background is in strategic marketing management, new product development, and market research and is LERC's Education & Commercial Director. He is currently acting director of the centre.

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