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Global Director, Lean Six Sigma

Benchmark has been making successful products for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) since 1986.

Thomas J VanEimeren, is an accomplished Lean Sigma Black Belt & holds the position of Global Director, Lean Six Sigma at Benchmark Electronics. Thomas previously held the position of Global Lean Sigma CPI Manager at Arrow Electronics Inc. Where he led Arrows’ Award Winning Lean Six Sigma Deployment & World class 5S program managing and mentoring Lean Six Sigma leaders at 75 facilities around the globe. Thomas drove lean sigma deployment globally inclusive of leading, consulting, mentoring & coaching leaders of tactical & strategic transformational improvement projects within Arrow's global business operations. Thomas has also developed innovative tools and has pioneered new approaches for lean sigma to drive excitement, deeper engagement and culture transformation. Thomas was the architect and program leader of two award winning CPI programs: Lean Sigma Global Olympics & Lean Sigma Drones. Both achieving back to back (2016, 2017 & 2018) Lean Sigma Innovation of the Year awards at the Lean and Six Sigma World Conference and the Business Transformation and Operation Excellence Summit. These programs continued to gain momentum & have generated excellent results. This momentum led to groundbreaking recognition. As in 2018, Thomas’s organization received the Lean Six Sigma Deployment of the Year Award at the Lean Six Sigma World Conference. Thomas was Arrow’s Global Lean Sigma continuous process improvement leader for the last 13 years of his 23-year tenure with the company. He has led and mentored over 400 continuous process improvement events during that time and developed successful transformational strategies that enabled record breaking financial performance and growth in 2017 and 2018. He is a member of the Lean Benchmarking Council, Society of Manufacturing Engineers and APICS Thomas was recognized and published as number 21 in the “Top 25 Global Lean Sigma Practitioners”, May 2016 issue of The Lean Management Journal. Thomas resides in Mesa, AZ with his wife & identical twin 12yr old boys & enjoys coaching his boys football teams, hiking and riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle to and from the office.