OpEx Solutions is made up of highly qualified associates, typically graduates with a minimum of twenty years of proven experience, covering a wide range of industries, operational excellence tools, and functions.  In addition, we are supported by industry gurus who serve as advisors to our organization.

Martin Nazareth, President OpEx Solutions

Martin is a global consultant in operational excellence involving the strategic application of lean manufacturing (Lean), total productive maintenance (TPM), quality, and industrial engineering (IE).  He has led strategic consulting, training and execution at over 100 plants in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Latin America and Europe.  Martin’s background spans several industries, including Automotive, Metals and Mining, Information Systems, Oil and Gas, and Ship Building. He is currently responsible for starting up an organization with two divisions, Global OpEx Solutions and CenTex OpEx Consortium.  Prior to OpEx Solutions, Martin was a senior manager at Alcoa’s Primary Products, responsible for strategically applying Lean, and he led an initiative for the global implementation of TPM.  He managed program quality for all North American programs at Delphi Thermal & Interior, involving quality engineering, program management and Lean.  Prior to Delphi, Martin was consulting through EDS, Tata Consulting Services, and independently in the areas of manufacturing management systems and operational excellence.  Martin has led four corporate and division wide initiatives including Lean, TPM, FMEA/PCP and error-proofing.  He has two masters’ in IE and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering.  He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Six Sigma Green Belt. Martin has been a speaker at several conferences of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).  He serves on the board of AME’s Southwest Region and is a Director of IIE’s Lean Division.  With over twenty five years of professional experience, Martin is well recognized for his passion for excellence and strategic execution through demonstrated accomplishments of flawless new product launches, successful implementation of initiatives and demonstration of bottom-line results.

Rex Draman, PhD.

Rex Draman spent more than fifteen years working in operations management, holding both line and staff positions in a variety of industries, before earning his Ph. D. in Operations and Strategic Management from the University of Georgia in 1995.  Given this in-depth understanding of the real-world issues and problems facing today’s managers, Rex has focused his research and relationships with organizations developing a deeper understanding of the inter-dependence between Operations (value-adding activities) and the other business functions.  While these efforts were initially focused on the practices within the ‘theory of constraints’ (TOC) they have continued to expand to include a wide spectrum of systems-based tools and processes.  Over the last fifteen years, in addition to being an academic, he and his associate have successfully worked with a number of organizations, ranging from a small cabinet shop through international chemical companies, which have sought to embrace a more systems-based approach to their operations and business processes.  He looks forward to continuing this activity in the future.  As an academic, Rex has held faculty positions in Operations Management at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, St. Edward’s University, and the University of Texas at Brownsville.  He also served as Chair of the Operations concentration in St. Edward’s MBA program.  He has published in Production Inventory Management Journal, Human Systems Management Journal, Quality Management Journal, Industrial Management, International Journal of Production Research, Nano-express and TOC Quarterly.  In addition, he has presented his research at a variety of national and international conferences.

Ganesh Pai

Mr. Pai is an expert and qualified professional practicing operational excellence in strategy consulting, product development, software project management, and industrial engineering. His experience spans diverse domains such as manufacturing, higher technical education, research and government as well as online reservations of air, car and hotel, online sales transactions and online payment solutions. He has worked with global teams spread across USA, Australia, India, Latin America, Singapore and Europe.   Mr. Pai is currently consulting with global operations division of PayPal, a leading online payment solutions provider. Prior to PayPal, Mr. Pai has provided his expert services to leading online players such as Expedia, Travelocity, Sabre Decision Technologies, Mary Kay Inc. At Mercury Marines, world’s leading manufacturer of engines for speed boats, he developed heuristic solutions integrating delivery route optimization with traditional inventory management concepts to minimize the total annual logistics cost, a term that he introduced. Mr. Pai has also developed graduate level curriculum for Advanced Manufacturing Management as well as Integrating Manufacturing Enterprise Decisions. He has served as a faculty at National Institute of Technology, Karnataka India and Oklahoma State University teaching both at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has served as an expert observer and examiner at many universities in India.  He has two masters’ in Industrial Engineering and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering.  He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).   Mr. Pai has been a paper reviewer for Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) conferences.   He has also presented a paper on CIM Enterprise Modeling Methodologies.  With strong professional experience, Mr. Pai is well recognized for development of people through mentorship, development of new products and development of processes built for operational excellence.

Tony Delgado

Mr. Delgado is the founder and Managing Director of Delgado Consulting, a training and consulting business whose focus is negotiation skills and personal effectiveness programs.  Prior to founding his consulting company, Mr. Delgado was the Global Sales, Marketing and Procurement Education Manager for Dell, Inc.  He also held Training Management positions for Sequent Computer and Apple Computer in both Sales and Procurement education.  Prior to his education positions, he held Procurement management and Sales positions for a variety of companies and was on the procurement and negotiation faculty of De Anza College in California. At Dell Mr. Delgado also managed the development and training process of a major Business Process Improvement program that saved millions of dollars and is still being used today. For the past 30 years, Mr. Delgado has successfully worked with both sales and procurement teams on complex strategies and negotiations along with personal development programs.  In addition to holding management positions in procurement and education, his past consulting business involved organizations such as Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Trillium and Trimble Navigation.  He has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, and through his efforts in team guidance and training, he has documented millions of dollars in cost savings and increased sales, margins and process improvements.  Mr. Delgado has B.S Business Administration, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA and a College Teaching Credential, De Anza College, CA