Guy Hatzor: Director of Operations in Lake Forest, CA

Oversees all operations activities with 8 direct and 200 indirect reports, as a member of the company' executive team. Enhance, develop, implement and enforce company policies and procedures, identifying, recommending, and implementing new processes, technologies, and systems to improve and streamline organizational processes and use of resources and materials. • Manage the installation and integration of $4M of high-end equipment and technologies company's daily manufacturing, in the last 5 years. • Create annual operating and capital expenditure budgets and managed performance to budget. • Serve as the head of the environmental and sustainability activities, externally & internally in the last 2 years. • Led the implementation of a quality improvement initiative to track and improve first pass yield from 80% to 94%-95%, across all operations and customers returns of 0.3%-0.4%. • Manage the company's safety committee, ensuring all processes remain compliant with OSHA and other government regulations, reducing the recordable injuries by more than 65%.

Managed all operations activities, including manufacturing, purchasing, logistics and stores locations. Served as a member of the executives' team, reporting to the company owner. • Supervised manage a team of almost 300 people, both directly and indirectly. • Created and maintained an annual operational budget of $10M. • Established and built the company's operational and quality procedures. • Negotiated with raw material suppliers, services vendors on the annual terms and needs. • Improved manufacturing efficiency by 15% and creating a new process flow between the assembly lines.

Lead the division product development operations with 15 direct / 80 indirect reports. Determined workload for staff; recommend effective processes and procedures to improve workflow and results. • Supported the marketing team during the introduction of new products to customers in Europe and U.S. • Handled a capital budget of $2M, supporting total sales of more than $20M annually. • Partnered with the marketing and design teams, gather data on key fashion trends considering such elements as fabrication, materials, color schemes and designs looking forward to next season.