Why Can’t I Get What I Want?

Join Oregon City Business Alliance & Empowering Oregon Manufacturing for a panel lunch discussing the current and future outlook for manufacturing locally and nationally. Learn how businesses like yours are solving supply chain challenges:

• Incoming: delivery delays, shipping costs & unavailable parts/materials
• Operational: absenteeism, unfilled positions & productivity decline from mandates
• Outgoing: scheduling deliveries & customer schedule changes

Moderator:

Joe Connors, Vice President and Commercial Relationship Banking Officer at Columbia Bank

Joe Connors, vice president, commercial banking officer at Columbia Bank, is responsible for developing business and institutional relationships in the community. Joe’s primary mission is to help clients succeed in achieving their personal and business goals. He listens carefully and understands each of his client’s objectives, dreams, and needs. 
Joe has over 12 years of experience in business banking, with expertise in manufacturing, distribution, contracting, and professional service firms. He is a graduate of Assumption College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting, as well as Babson College where he earned a master’s in business. Dedicated to serving his local community, Joe is the founder and chairperson of the Financial Executives Networking Group and is an active member of the Small Business Development Center and Business Transition Advisors Circle. He currently volunteers with Race for Justice, Taste for Justice, the Oregon Food Bank, and Good Samaritan Ministries.

Panelists:

Paul Menig, CEO of Business Accelerants

Paul Menig has been a student of strategy and business for over four decades. As an intrapreneur at General Electric, Eaton, and Daimler he led teams of hundreds to develop and successfully bring to market products for military, aerospace, medical instrumentation, industrial automation, and transportation industries. He was schooled in setting strategy for these large multi-national companies while working with suppliers ranging in size from small privately-held companies to similar multi-national tier-1s. Concepts and management approaches such as Agile, Lean, Enterprise Operating Systems, Continuous Cost Improvement, Key Performance Indicators, and more were applied to every aspect of his work from the company to the supplier, to the department, to the project. Since leaving the corporate world at the end of 2011, Paul has focused his energy on down-scaling these successful business disciplines to small and medium enterprise companies.

Julie Markee, Professional EOS Implementer

Julie Markee is a life-long entrepreneur who started her first business at the age of 12. She was the go-to swimming instructor in her neighborhood, teaching over 200 children every summer. It didn’t take long for her to realize the real challenges of this business were selling her services and collecting payment. After her parents moved to a house without a backyard pool, she began teaching at multiple private pools around the Yakima Valley and her business continued to grow. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Chemical Engineering and began her career as a process engineer. Her passion for process allowed her to streamline processes from tortilla chip manufacturing to metal casting to business processes. She is a US Patent holder for her invention of the kpi-dry™ dryness measurement system.While her engineering mind allows her to intuitively find the quickest path to achieve the desired results, her real magic is her excellent communication skills that help others see the path and have the courage to follow along with her. What’s behind that magic? Her passion for people and her desire to help them reach their full potential.

Frank McShane, President of Square Peg Consulting

Frank has been in executive, consulting, and mentoring roles for over 30 years. His initiatives have resulted in cumulative benefits for his clients of well over one billion dollars. Square Peg Consulting helps you cash in on opportunities in your company’s Supply Chain. Frank led Ernst and Young’s NW Supply Chain and Operations consulting practice for the Pacific Northwest. As President of an 80-year-old Paper company, Frank rationalized their product offerings and equipment configurations, taking them from a cash consumer to industry-leading EBITDA levels. As COO of a regional Internet Service Provider, he created security networks for Airports, Seaports, and Municipal Police Departments by combining network construction and broadband equipment expertise. Frank returned to consulting in 2017, focused on two root business problems: lack of clear data-driven strategies and lack of people and teams’ fit to the business strategies.

Lori Olund, President of Miles Fiberglass & Composites, Inc.

Lori Olund graduated from Portland State University with a double major in Marketing and Psychology. She is currently President of Miles Fiberglass & Composites and has been with the company for 40 years. Lori is the Past President of the American Composites Manufacturers Association and the North Clackamas County Chamber of Commerce, where she is Co-Chair of the Candidate Selection Committee. She currently serves on the Boards of Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Clackamas Academy of Industrial Science High School, Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition, and Oregon Business & Industries. Lori has two sons who also work in the business along with her husband Forrest.