People

Martin Nazareth
PMP®, SMC™, Certified Everything DiSC Workplace® Facilitator
President
Martin Nazareth is the founder and president of OpEx Solutions, Inc. (OSI) — an organization with two divisions, Global OpEx Solutions and the CenTex OpEx Consortium, helping organizations find and define their own way to operational excellence.

Jesus (Jesse) Valdez
BB
Senior Consultant Process and TPM
Jesús Valdez has over 38 years of experience in the chemical industry and manufacturing sites. He has been responsible for the implementation and sustainability of the DuPont Production System (DPS) at DuPont’s manufacturing sites across many business segments.

John P. Gay
PMP®, SMC™, SCOR-P. CSCP, MBB
Vice President of Operations
John P. Gay has been Supervising Master Black Belt and Global Best Practices Leader for Focused Improvement for DuPont, delivering over $1M per person every year in hard, validated savings in addition to $2M + in soft savings until his retirement.

Gary Johnson, Jr. PE
CMRP
Principal Consultant
Gary Johnson is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional. Some of his main areas of expertise are maximizing asset utilization, reliability, asset tracking, cost reduction and planning and scheduling. He served Alcoa for 34 years in various capacities.

J. Bennet Foster
CSCP, CPIM
Principal Consultant
J. Bennett Foster is a Certified Analytics Professional (INFORMS) and Industrial Engineer with over 40 years of experience across multiple industries. APICS has certified him as a supply chain professional (CSCP and CPIM). His production planning techniques saved DuPont millions.

Rich Deegan
SCOR-P. CSCP, CPIM, MBB
Principal Consultant
Rich Deegan has over 25 years’ process industry experience leading and improving global supply chains including specialty chemicals, fluoropolymer resins, coatings, and films across multiple industries. He is an expert in supply chain operations and product management.







