Jerry Wright is Senior Vice President of Lean and Enterprise Excellence at DJO Global, an international medical device manufacturer with annual revenues of $1 billion. DJO has operations in 20 countries and sells products in more than 80 countries. Jerry works out of the company’s headquarters in Vista, Calif. He joined DJO in 1997 and has held leadership positions in quality, engineering and operations. He has been one of the key change leaders that introduced lean thinking to transform DJO Global from a traditional batch-and-queue manufacturer to a world-class, lean enterprise.
During his tenure as the Director of Operations for the Vista facility, the operation was honored as one of the IndustryWeek Top Ten Best Plants in North America (2005). The Product Development Management Association (PDMA) awarded DJO Global the Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award that same year. The Vista operation was also a 2006 Shingo Business Prize Recipient for Excellence in Manufacturing. The Vista site was recognized as the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) 2009 Regional Manufacturing Excellence Award winner and the 2010 recipient of the AME Manufacturing Excellence Award for all of North America.
Jerry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California and a U.S. patent holder. Jerry is a Shingo Prize Examiner, a former Baldrige Award Examiner and past president of AME’s West Region. He is the lead instructor for the Lean Enterprise certificate course at University of California at San Diego. For the past eight years he has chaired the Southern California Lean Network, an association of more than 75 companies that share best practices in lean, operational excellence and continuous improvement.
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