With more than 35 years of experience, Mr. Lynch helps companies identify and implement operational and margin improvements. His recent work includes manufacturing network strategy, operating model design, plant operations assessments, make/buy analyses, and leading improvements across conversion cost, OEE, direct and indirect materials, direct labor, inventory, factory overhead, quality and maintenance. Mr. Lynch also leads the implementation of digital manufacturing techniques, including digital control tower, connected machine/IOT, connected industrial worker, digital quality, predictive maintenance and advanced analytics. He also leads operational due diligence assignments.

Mr. Lynch has driven major operational improvement initiatives for several clients, including conducting an indirect labor cost transformation for a North American Automotive OEM, which studied tasks and workload of maintenance skilled trades, quality inspection and repair, and material handling personnel across 12 assembly plants. The program identified targeted efficiencies and manpower reductions worth over $125 million in annual savings. Mr. Lynch also helped a maker of jet engines and a Department of Defense prime contractor by leading a manufacturing cost transformation across internal manufacturing facilities and the supply base. Applying should costing, value stream assessments and material conservation strategies produced over $4 million in savings per engine at full rate production and delivered over $8 billion in total program savings.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Lynch was a Managing Director at Accenture, supporting clients to design and implement strategies for digital manufacturing and intelligent supply chain. Previously, he was the Senior Director of the Manufacturing Center of Excellence at A.T. Kearney, a group of manufacturing specialists focused on supporting the most complex and comprehensive operations transformation projects across the firm. Before his consulting career, Mr. Lynch worked in computer-aided design and manufacturing.

Mr. Lynch earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.