Patrick Browne

Background

About Patrick Browne

British born and resident in Luxembourg for more than 25 years with dual nationality, Patrick serves international clients with bilingual English/ French capability.30+ years of helping organisations to become excellent began in the automotive industry (Peugeot) before the terms Lean and Six Sigma had even been coined. Growing and learning from within major organisations in roles in Industrial Engineering and Project Management provided the advantage of operational insight and profound understanding of operational best practices. Moving into consultancy at the turn of the millennium was firstly as Lean Specialist with McKinsey during the startup of the Operations practice in Paris and afterwards with his own consultancy developing an international reputation for results-focused interventions with a pragmatic, sector-agnostic approach that demonstrated particular success in complex multicultural work environments.The systemic transformations led by Patrick incorporating Lean and Six Sigma methods have targeted simultaneous improvements of increased productivity (+25%), superior quality (100% Right First Time) & unified sense of purpose (Team Cultural Gap Assessment), and reduction in costs (Demonstrated realisation of total cost objectives including extended missions to include Supplier Development to achieve Target Cost).Specialties: Problem Solving, Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management, Team Building, Supplier Development, Train-the-trainer, Expert Coach in Manufacturing and Service industries, Continuous Performance Improvement, Interim Management in Operations, Due diligence for Venture Capital. Pat’s “unique selling point” has been to deliver projects with guaranteed success in a variety of contexts from grass roots to boardroom level. He has served clients throughout Europe as well as USA and Asia in sectors as diverse as Aerospace and Finance, Life Sciences and Construction, Public Sector, Film & TV. Past clients include Airbus, Mercedes, Toyota, Technicolor, Cartier, PwC, PhysIOL, Middle Ground Capital, Novo Nordisk, Leo Pharma & Astra Zeneca Patrick was previously Managing Director of the EMEA region for Kepner Tregoe, a niche consultancy that specialises in problem solving and introducing a mindset of rational thinking to organisations in a variety of sectors with particular success in Automotive (Johnson Controls, Westfalia), Aerospace (Airbus, Bombardier), IT (Dimension Data, Microsoft)and more recently also effective CAPA programs in the Pharma and Medical Sector for such clients as GSK, Pfizer, Hospira, Sanofi, Novartis and others.