John Adamek is a Senior Executive and a certified Master Black Belt with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and post graduate qualifications in Applied Statistics. John has championed strategy formulation and transformation initiatives globally across financial, automotive, oil and gas, manufacturing, medical and R&D industries. John has been a Minitab user since the early 1990s and trained more than 6000 people in business improvement.

Dr Vik Kortian is the Managing Director of the Performance Improvement Institute. For over 18 years, he has been advising and working with Australian and multi-national organisations on business excellence and organisational transformation. He was Director of Performance Improvement at PriceWaterhouseCoopers leading the Lean Six Sigma practice, as well as the Director Lean Six Sigma Deployment for Unisys in the Asia Pacific Region. Previous to this, Dr Kortian spent 20 years working for Dow Corning, holding several senior operational and managerial positions including a three-year stint at the corporation's Global Headquarters in Michigan where he patented and commercialised new emulsion products and processes. Dr Kortian holds an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of NSW, a Master’s in Business Administration, a Master of Arts (Research), and a PhD in Business from Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Dr Kortian is an Adjunct Lecturer at several leading Australian business schools including the Australian Graduate School of Management, Kaplan Business School, and Macquarie Graduate School of Management, where he teaches Lean Six Sigma Executive Education programs, Operations Management, Statistics, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and Project Management.

Ming Dong is one of only a handful of practitioners across the Asia Pacific Region to be a certified trainer for Minitab’s flagship product, Minitab Statistical Software. The training certification process is the culmination of years of statistical training with real-life application of data analysis in the industry. Ming’s formal qualifications include an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering Management, a Masters of Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, and a Masters of Applied Statistics from Macquarie University. Ming has a unique and profound understanding of the application of statistics in the business world.In addition, Ming has broad business development experience, developed through his work in senior technical roles for large organisations such as Toshiba, OzEmail and National Computing Systems Singapore. As a university research officer at Macquarie University, he had several papers published in the field of Bioinformatics.

My CI experience spans across manufacturing, logistics, transport and services industries. For the last 10 years, I’ve been busy improving business performance either by driving projects or coaching process owners in the application of Lean and Six Sigma. Now I’m a part of Medibank’s Process Improvement team and I’m supporting the rollout of Lean and Six Sigma methodology throughout the organisation.