Specialized Operations Management Serving Manufacturing and Distribution Business Needs
Since 1996 Interpro Group has been providing strategic, organizational, operational, and demand & supply chain management services. We offer customized consulting, project management, and interim management services for continuous improvement and turnarounds. We work closely with management and all levels of personnel as well as customers and suppliers. Interpro’s approach mandates commitment to change combined with action to effect business performance.
Our Team
Andreas "Andy" Novotny
Andy Novotny is President and Founder of InterPro Group. He has over 25 years of practitioner experience in running businesses and strategic initiatives including sales, operations, and supply chains in multiple locations across the globe.
Mr. Novotny has served in executive, interim management, operating partner, project management, consulting, and investor roles for over 50 Manufacturing and Distribution businesses. He has led numerous operational improvement and growth initiatives, local and global restructuring projects, assessments and due diligence projects, and post M&A integrations in North America and Europe.
Born in Austria, Mr. Novotny speaks fluent English and German. He has lived in the USA since 1993 and he is Austrian-American dual citizen. His education includes Industrial Manufacturing and Electronics at European technical institutions. Mr. Novotny has been a President of AME, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Director of TMA, the Turnaround Management Association, and a member of ACG, the Association for Corporate Growth.
Mr. Novotny has served in executive, interim management, operating partner, project management, consulting, and investor roles for over 50 Manufacturing and Distribution businesses. He has led numerous operational improvement and growth initiatives, local and global restructuring projects, assessments and due diligence projects, and post M&A integrations in North America and Europe.
Born in Austria, Mr. Novotny speaks fluent English and German. He has lived in the USA since 1993 and he is Austrian-American dual citizen. His education includes Industrial Manufacturing and Electronics at European technical institutions. Mr. Novotny has been a President of AME, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Director of TMA, the Turnaround Management Association, and a member of ACG, the Association for Corporate Growth.
David Piacitelli
David Piacitelli has spent over 20 years in marketing, sales, and business management. He successfully sold into the automotive, telecommunications, high-tech electronics, and consumer/industrial hardware markets. His experience includes national sales representative network development and management, application of strategic marketing techniques to improve market penetration and sales effectiveness, and implementation of streamlined sales management systems for improved bottom line and corporate focus.
Most recently David has developed a business process aimed at revenue development beginning with a current situation analysis and encompassing customers, prospects, pipeline and demographics. This is data collection and benchmarking phase. The next phase in David's program is forecast development. Forecasting formulates the goals and provides the benchmarks for the final phase-revenue development. Mr. Piacitelli segments revenue development into a three-tier process that addresses both short and long term goals. The three tiers are 1) developing new business from existing customers, 2) developing new customers for existing products and services, and 3) development new markets.
Most recently David has developed a business process aimed at revenue development beginning with a current situation analysis and encompassing customers, prospects, pipeline and demographics. This is data collection and benchmarking phase. The next phase in David's program is forecast development. Forecasting formulates the goals and provides the benchmarks for the final phase-revenue development. Mr. Piacitelli segments revenue development into a three-tier process that addresses both short and long term goals. The three tiers are 1) developing new business from existing customers, 2) developing new customers for existing products and services, and 3) development new markets.
A.J. Tozzi
A.J. Tozzi is an innovative and seasoned Operations Executive that began his Lean Training with the Shingijitsu Group and later honed his Lean Enterprise skills in Danaher Corporation both as a Lean Practitioner and as an Operations Executive. These skills and experiences allow Mr. Tozzi to identify and solve complex business issues throughout the entire Value Stream of an organization.
Mr. Tozzi has extensive experience as a change agent and has led hundreds of successful Kaizen events and many Business Transformations that have resulted in dramatic improvements in Quality, Customer Service, Cost Reduction and Working Capital Reduction, and Top Line Growth. Equally skilled in shop floor and administrative process improvement, Mr. Tozzi's hands-on approach to teaching, and "just-do-it" methodology delivers bottom line results fast.
Whether leading individual Kaizen events that deliver improved operating results or leading a Business Transformation Process that integrates the development and execution of Company Strategy to deliver sustainable and continuously improving business results, Mr. Tozzi is recognized for his ability to communicate, understand issues, and energize teams at all levels of an organization to solve problems and improve performance.
Mr. Tozzi has extensive experience as a change agent and has led hundreds of successful Kaizen events and many Business Transformations that have resulted in dramatic improvements in Quality, Customer Service, Cost Reduction and Working Capital Reduction, and Top Line Growth. Equally skilled in shop floor and administrative process improvement, Mr. Tozzi's hands-on approach to teaching, and "just-do-it" methodology delivers bottom line results fast.
Whether leading individual Kaizen events that deliver improved operating results or leading a Business Transformation Process that integrates the development and execution of Company Strategy to deliver sustainable and continuously improving business results, Mr. Tozzi is recognized for his ability to communicate, understand issues, and energize teams at all levels of an organization to solve problems and improve performance.
Scott Gauvin
Scott Gauvin is an experienced change agent with 15 years of demonstrated manufacturing and business management success. A native of Boston, Scott began his career locally in technology integration, from database systems design to full MRP implementations for clients such as Courier Corporation, Titelist and Harris Communications also working within the manufacturing and operations sectors of the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, printing, communications, hospitality and equipment industries.
Currently, Scott specializes in developing continuous improvement initiatives and implementing Lean and Six Sigma solutions for clients in software, healthcare and manufacturing and has spent nearly 3 years supporting significant lean implementations in China. In addition to his experience in China, Scott has developed operational strategies that have also enabled clients across the US, Mexico, Central America and Europe to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce cycle times, inventory and waste culminating in more efficient responses to their customers' needs and marketplace demands.
Scott Gauvin, holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts and is a member of the China Business Round Table and a Past President of AME Northeast, the leading association for Enterprise Excellence.
Currently, Scott specializes in developing continuous improvement initiatives and implementing Lean and Six Sigma solutions for clients in software, healthcare and manufacturing and has spent nearly 3 years supporting significant lean implementations in China. In addition to his experience in China, Scott has developed operational strategies that have also enabled clients across the US, Mexico, Central America and Europe to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce cycle times, inventory and waste culminating in more efficient responses to their customers' needs and marketplace demands.
Scott Gauvin, holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts and is a member of the China Business Round Table and a Past President of AME Northeast, the leading association for Enterprise Excellence.