John Borza, PE, AVS, President

John Borza is a registered Professional Engineer and a SAVE certified AVS.  John has been involved in Value Management since late 2002, and has previously served as VP, President, Past-President, Host Chapter Conference Committee Chairman, and Acting Director of Communications of the Greater Michigan Chapter of SAVE International. He has recently formed his own consulting company, Value Innovation, LLC, after retiring from TRW Automotive where he worked for 33 years, in various Engineering and Management roles. John holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan, an Altshuler Institute Certified TRIZ Practioner, and a Pretium certified TRIZ Master Black Belt.  John is also a member of SAE and Tau Beta Pi.

Greg Andrysiak, CVS, Vice President

Greg Andrysiak, CVS, is currently Principle Consultant and President at Cost Innovations LLC ^TM. He is conducting training and workshops primarily to reduce product cost through the application of VAVE, Benchmarking, and DFMA.  Greg is a certified value specialist and has an approved Mod I course.  He has conducted hundreds of work shops resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.  Greg has been an active SAVE International member since 1994, and has served as Vice President of Communications (June 2000 to May 2001), and served as Director of Manufacturing for SAVE International (2004 to 2009).

Ron Harris, PE, Immediate Past-President

Ronald has been practicing the Value Methodology since 1964, and completed General Motors Institute’s Value Analysis program in 1966. He joined SAVE in 1966, and presented his first paper on Value at SAVE’s 8th annual Conference in 1968, in Atlanta. He currently provides value, cost, and pricing related services, and has been active in SAVE during most of his career. Ronald was president of the local chapter on three previous occassions. Ronald is an advocate for clearly stating the Value Proposition associated with all chapter presentations and events.

Jim Bolton, PE, CVS, PVM, Director, Admin

Jim Bolton is a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) and a Professional in Value Management (PVM) conducting numerous Module I Workshops globally where he has been the advisor and mentor for over 132 certified AVS practitioners. He is currently the Global Lead for Design for Value and DFMA for Whirlpool Corporation where he has responsibility for developing a Value Engineering and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly process within the corporation. Jim is VP of Global Affair in SAVE International and is the Chapter Effectiveness Director for the Greater Michigan Chapter of SAVE International.

Anthony Bango, AVS, Director, Finance

Anthony is a Vice President at Skanska USA Building, an international Construction Company. Mr. Bango manages the Preconstruction Services group which oversees project planning, including project VM. He has over 22 years of experience on over 175 diverse projects, including major healthcare facilities, K-12, commercial development, and higher education projects including laboratory and clean room facilities. Anthony received his B.A., Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He is an Associate Value Specialist.

Gordon Johnson, CVS, Director, Programs

Gordon Johnson has led over 130 VA/VE studies with 2 major Tier 1 automotive suppliers and a truck OEM over the past 13 years. His experience also includes several years in automotive component design and development and as a Construction Engineering Technician. Gordon is currently North American Value Manager at Whirlpool Corp. Gordon has been a CVS since 2002 and has previously enjoyed serving in the Greater Michigan Chapter as Director of Membership and Director of Programs and Director of Administration.

Tom Buchner, AVS, Director, Communications

Tom is a mechanical engineer with a Master of Science in Aviation Engineering.  He is currently with World Technical Services, Inc.  Prior to that he worked at TRW Automotive where he was VA/VE Team Leader for the global Linkage and Suspension group.  He has facilitated several value VA/VE workshops in North America and Europe. He received the groups "Highest Savings Achievement Award" for Steering and Suspension North America, for 2005.  Subsequently he continued to contribute to pre-launch savings for Electrically Assisted Steering Systems in Washington, MI.

Rakesh Shreewastav, P.Eng., AVS Director, Membership

Rakesh obtained his MSc degree in civil engineering from Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering in 1996 and currently works for the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Windsor Border Initiatives Implementation Group (Windsor BIIG) in London office. Previously, he worked for MTO Northeastern Region, Ontario Power Generation, and multidisciplinary engineering companies and government sectors in Russia and Nepal. Rakesh has been involved in other professional organizations, such as the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the Canadian Society of Value Analysis, and SAVE International.

Steve Garrett, CVS Director, Chapter Effectiveness

Steve is principal and COO of Kirk Associates, LLC.   He has over 22 years of professional experience as an Architect and Value Management professional.  He has facilitated numerous workshops in the areas of value analysis, strategic planning, project criteria development, value analysis training and program management for national and international clients.  Steve has been a member of SAVE since 2002, but has not previously held a chapter office.  He has presented papers at several SAVE International Conferences in the past.  Steve is also active in his Oakland County community, and partners with technology companies to develop web content.

Michael J. Carrier Director, Academic Relations

Mike Carrier is an educator and value engineering consultant. He has taught undergraduate value engineering and purchasing courses and executive management workshops at Michigan State University. Following completion of his MBA at Michigan State, Mike joined the Ford Motor Company’s North American Production Purchasing group in 1977 and has experience purchasing a wide variety of components and assemblies. In 1992, he transferred to the Value Engineering activity within Body Engineering at Ford Motor Company. Mike has extensive experience in cost reduction activities, including value engineering workshop facilitation, product development process development and teaching systems engineering based target processes. Mike is a member of SAVE International, the Institute of Supply Management and APICS.

Chapter Advisors – Drew Algase & Stephen Kirk

Bios coming soon!