MCKNIGHT GRACIE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS - Key Persons


Ademir J. Petenate

Based in Brazil & fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, Ademir has worked in the Pharmaceutical, Logistics and Manufacturing Industries. His skills in working across business boundaries has allowed the clients to see radical changes in their business as he has helped to remove the issues which have prevented the work flow, resulting in significant $ improvements.

Alberto Canali

Based in France & Italy & fluent in Italian, English, French & Spanish, Alberto has worked in Oil and Manufacturing industries. His specialism is in accompanying the customer to the satisfaction of his strategic needs and in driving projects to completion through the extensive Lean & Six Sigma toolset. For these reasons, he is very much requested by his clients.

Chris McCann

Based in the UK, Chris has worked extensively in the Electronics, Manufacturing, Transportation, Food and Drink and Oil & Gas industries amongst others. He utilises the experience and skills gained at Motorola to bring breakthrough improvements with significant $ impact and high employee engagement which delivers sustainable improvements and culture change.

Frank Dotman

Based in the Netherlands and fluent in English & Dutch, Frank has worked in all departments/processes in the Oil, Chemical, Semi-Process, Assembly, Service and Healthcare industries, bringing his extensive Lean improvement methodologies to these sectors, delivering outstanding results.

George Bowers

Based in the UK, George has international experience in a range of industries and organisations in both the Private and Public sectors. Interested primarily in the human aspects of performance improvement, he works with teams and key individuals to improve their effectiveness in delivering the required outcomes.

Jim Vallance

Based in the UK & fluent in English & Spanish, Jim has worked in the Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Auto, Retail, Oil and Finance industries. His specialisms include Data analysis that has brought amazing results in these areas, and organisational development and change management knowledge that brings confidence and reassurance to his clients.

Matthew Gracie

Based in the UK, Matthew has worked extensively in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Finance industries in the last few years. He spends significant time in the Gulf region and has built up an extensive understanding of the types of approaches, which suit these clients. He lead the Motorola Six Sigma program in the 1990s and has shared his extensive knowledge with many of the World's leading companies.

Rob Elliott

Based in the USA, Rob has worked in the Manufacturing and Finance industries. His extensive experience in driving process change by prioritisation and business alignment has made his program interventions much sought after.

Sanj Joshi

Based in the USA, Sanj has worked in the Automotive, Biotech, Manufacturing, Pharma and Finance industries. His extensive experience as an innovator and practitioner of leading edge operational excellence and process improvement techniques ensures that his clients have improvements that stick.

Steve Alsop

Based in the UK, Steve has provided consulting services to the Oil, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Healthcare and Global Logistics industries since his time at General Electric as a Master Black Belt. He prides himself on his educating, coaching, team leading and facilitation skills, which together with a pragmatic approach to problem solving, help to ensure solid process improvement and lasting results.

Thomas Schröder

Based in Germany & fluent in English & German, Thomas has worked in the Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Oil and Manufacturing industries. His ability to bring down the process variation in key processes, which causes many customer complaints in down to his ex-Ford skill-set.