Tom Farrell Is Six Sigma, Business Improvement CEO of the Year

(WCBF: Chicago) -- The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards, organized by WCBF, recently announced Tom Farrell, chairman, president and CEO of Dominion, as the winner of its prestigious Six Sigma & Business Improvement CEO of the Year Award, sponsored by Minitab.

WCBF has also announced the shortlist of finalists for the 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards program. A total of 43 entries from 34 organizations have been selected by the independent judging panel from 12 categories to go forward to the final stages of the judging process.

The finalists for the 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards program are:

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Chemical & Pharmaceuticals
Hexion Specialty Chemicals
Merck & Co. – West Point

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Financial Services, sponsored by SSA & Co.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Deutsche Bank
TD Bank Financial Group
Wyndham Consumer Finance

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Health care, sponsored by Argo Inc.
Fairfield Medical Center
Medco Health Solutions
Miami Children’s Hospital
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Providence Health and Services

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Manufacturing
Monsanto Co.
Temple-Inland Edinburg Box Plant

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Transactional Services, sponsored by The Quality Group
Firstsource Solutions
IBM Corp.
ScottishPower Energy Retail
Volt Workforce Solutions

Best Project Achievement in Business Enabling Processes
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Humana
PACCAR
Raytheon

Best Project Achievement in Green Six Sigma, sponsored by Instantis
PACCAR
Vanguard
WNS Global Services

Best Project Achievement in Health & Safety
Los Angeles County & USC Medical Center
Miami Children’s Hospital
Sisters of Saint Francis Health Services

Best Project Achievement in Innovation or Product Development
Capital One Bank
Distributed Learning Directorate, U.S. Army

Best Project Achievement in Sales, Marketing or Customer Experience
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co.
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Pershing
PHH Arval
United Airlines
Wipro Technologies

Best Emerging Business Improvement Deployment
ADC Telecommunications
Distributed Learning Directorate, U.S. Army
Miami Children’s Hospital

Business Improvement Deployment Leader of the Year Award
Jay Banerjee, director, global head of operational excellence and innovation at Deutsche Bank
Chandeep Singh, executive vice president of process excellence at Firstsource Solutions
Dalchand Laljit, vice president of global Six Sigma at Hexion Specialty Chemicals
Colonel Robert C. Morris, Jr., director, distributed learning directorate, of the U.S. Army

To learn more about the awards program, please visit www.tgssa.com

The winners will be announced at The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Gala Awards Dinner on Wednesday October 14th 2009 at The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, Orlando. The Gala Dinner is part of WCBF’s 4th Annual Global Lean Six Sigma & Business Improvement Summit, October 13-16, 2009 in Orlando, which is the largest gathering of C-level and senior executives passionate about Six Sigma.

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