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Ron Keith
CEO and Founder
Ron Keith brings more than 24 years of operations experience to Riverwood Solutions including engineering, manufacturing and executive management positions at Westinghouse, Rockwell, Alcatel and Flextronics International. Ron has a reputation as an innovator, team builder, creative problem solver and strategic thinker who delivers straight talk and strong results to Riverwood’s clients. He has run international EMS operations with annual sales in excess of $1.4B and has managed manufacturing, product development, and program management personnel in numerous countries.
Ron has advised more than three dozen companies on their operations and outsourcing strategy including more than a dozen Global Fortune 500 companies. He has previously consulted for four of the top 10 EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) companies and has advised hedge funds, private equity funds and strategic investors on a number EMS related investments. Ron has published more than 30 articles on various manufacturing, technology and business related topics including strategy, operations, quality management, technology trends, and supply chain management.
Prior to founding Oreamnos Partners and Riverwood Solutions, Ron served as Vice President and General Manager at Flextronics International, where he started and ran several divisions in both the EMSand ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) spaces during his more than eight year tenure. He worked with, and ran manufacturing operations for, a number of leading OEMs at Flextronics including Cisco, Motorola, JDS Uniphase, Nortel. W.L. Gore, Kyocera and others.
Ron has undergraduate degrees in both Electronic Engineering and Manufacturing. He received an MA in International Management and an MBA in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he also completed the majority of coursework towards a PhD in Organization, Strategy & International Management (OSIM).
Mano Fathi
President, Riverwood Solutions Europe
 Mano Fathi is a 20 year veteran of the technology industry with a diverse background in manufacturing, program management, product development and industrialization. He has held operations and engineering roles at companies including Amdahl, Supermac, Visioneer, Remedy, Flextronics Micron and Flextronics. Mano has had executive responsibility for business development and program management for global manufacturing services accounts in excess of $2B. He joined RWS from Flextronics, where he served as Vice President of NovoFlex and led development of global supply chain strategies for a number of key accounts.
Mano has run operations, designed global supply chains, and managed product industrialization for some of the world’s largest OEMs including SonyEricsson, Cisco, HP and others. As Vice President of Product Industrialization at Flextronics, Mano established a global network of industrialization centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia, managing a team of more than 500 engineering and supply chain professionals across the globe. In his role as Vice President at NovoFlex, he led restructuring efforts to modify and streamline a global supply chain producing more than 24 million cell phones per year. He has developed a reputation as a problem solver and a negotiator who can effectively bridge the supply chain divide between suppliers and OEMs.
On the OEM side of the equation, Mano has led product development efforts for numerous OEM products in computing, networking and enterprise hardware. He has managed complex global outsourcing projects and new product introduction activities for OEMs building product domestically and offshore. He holds professional certifications in Just in Time Manufacturing and Demand Flow Technology and is a member of the Institute for Supply Management.
Mano holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology & Management from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.
Mark Medlen
Vice President, Operations & Supply Chain Services
Mark Medlen is a career operations, engineering and supply chain professional with more than 23 years of global operations experience. He has held operations and engineering roles at several companies including Texas Instruments, Micron, Flextronics and Abbott Labs. Mark has managed a number of technology manufacturing plants around the world, producing an incredibly diverse array of different products ranging from miniature optical components to massive pieces of factory automation. Over the last few years, Mark has spent the majority of his time in China managing various EMS and ODM activities for some of the world’s leading OEMs.
Mark has managed outsourced production operations and ODM programs for more than a dozen major companies including Cisco, Applied Materials, Motorola, Quantum, Tyco, Apple, Dell, HP, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. He has managed numerous international product transfers, offshore product introductions, and substantial product development and industrialization programs in the U.S., Mexico and Asia.
Prior to joining Riverwood Solutions in 2008, Mark spent more than 10 years in various management and executive roles at Flextronics, including serving as General Manager for several different operations. Most recently Mark served as Senior Director of Global Operations for FlexPower, a wholly owned subsidiary of Flextronics that provides ODM power solutions to more than 50 of the world’s leading OEMs.
While at Abbott Labs, Mark received numerous awards for his work in improving new product introduction processes including the prestigious Abbott Labs Chairman’s Award. He currently holds eight U.S. patents for various manufacturing processes and production technologies. Mark has a BSME from Purdue University and did his graduate work at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
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