Michael Tamasi is President and CEO of AccuRounds, an advanced manufacturer dedicated to being the leading value solution for contract precision machined components and assemblies used in numerous industries including medical, defense, semi-conductor, aerospace and oil/gas. Michael, a second-generation owner, has been working in the family business since 1985. Michael is very active in industry and educational organizations including NTMA as Audit Team Leader/Member, where he served on their Boston Chapter’s board for 15 years. He is also a NIMS Audit Team Leader. In 2010, he was appointed the Massachusetts STEM Advisory Council. He co-chaired the Public Awareness subcommittee for 3 years, and currently co-chairs the Workforce Training subcommittee. Michael joined the Executive Committee for the MA Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative in 2012, serving as co-chair of the 'promoting manufacturing' working group. In 2014, he was selected to serve on the New England Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Michael is the Chairman of Business Leaders United, a group led by several non-profits including the National Skills Coalition, and sits on the advisory board for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the UNH where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He also received a Master’s degree in business administration from Babson College.

Dr Dickson is President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, a four hospital healthcare system located in central Massachusetts with over 900 acute care beds and 1100 employed physicians, he also serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Prior to being named CEO Dr Dickson served as President and Senior Associate Dean of UMass Memorial Medical Group, Professor and Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Interim Chief Operating Officer for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Dr Dickson completed his medical degree and residency training in emergency medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and has a Masters Degree in Health Care Management from Harvard University. Dr Dickson has served as a member of the Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners, lectures nationally on the use of the Toyota Production System in healthcare and is an active faculty member for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, where he works with health systems around the world to reduce healthcare costs while improving quality.

Steven Spear is a Sr. Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, and he is a Senior Fellow at IHI. He has won numerous awards including the Philip Crosby Medal, for his book The High Velocity Edge, from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2011, a McKinsey Award for his article "Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today," from Harvard Business Review, and numerous Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence. He is an authority on how select companies—in high tech and heavy industry, design and production, manufacturing and services—generate superlative performance by converting innovation & improvement from inspiration to repeatable, broad-based, skill-based disciplines. Spear’s “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System” and “Learning to Lead at Toyota,” are part of the lean manufacturing canon. His “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today” and articles in Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Services Research, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, and Academic Medicine have been on the forefront in health care improvement. He contributes to the Boston Globe and New York Times, and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and radio, CBS, and elsewhere.

Donald Walsh holds degrees from Holy Cross College (AB), Northeastern University (MA, Sociology) and the Harvard Business School (MBA). Don retired from NSTAR where he was the Director of Community Relations and Economic Development. He was responsible for NSTAR’s relations with the 108 municipalities in its service territory as well as developing partnerships to strengthen the economy in Massachusetts. Don represented NSTAR on several business organizations, including Mass MEP and AIM. He was an officer of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the founder of MassEcon (the state’s real estate industrial site-finder service and the leading non-governmental, state-wide economic development organization). He also founded the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, a non-profit that has developed 1,200 units of low income housing bringing over $330m of investment to Dorchester.

Bruce has more than 30 years’ experience leading businesses spanning technologies as diverse as high volume consumer goods, high precision machining, fine chemicals enterprises, pharmaceutical-food grade operations, and medical device companies. He skillfully integrates a leadership approach that combines the entrepreneurial mindset of a small company with the discipline of a large stable organization to deliver high impact results. In his current position as General Manager of KARL STORZ Endovision, Bruce was recruited to lead a business turnaround, delivering unprecedented levels of customer service, quality, and cash flow. He has more than 10 years lean leadership experience, and has implemented lean operating systems in several different businesses. An eight time Boston Marathon runner, Bruce understands the discipline required to deliver a long term plan, while executing day-to-day operational excellence.