About Organizers

Patrick Hehir, Founder and CEO, Business Value Group International Pat founded BVG in 2009 as a business performance and value creation consulting company. He has 25 years of International Business Operations experience. As SVP of Mgmt. Systems at Flextronics International, Pat drove the large scale transformational change growing the company from $13B in revenues to $35B in four years. Prior to this role, Pat was VP of Global Initiatives which included Lean/Six Sigma, RoHS, Org Development, Corporate Strategy and L&D. Pat was SVP and Chief Manufacturing Officer of Trimble Navigation where he shifted Trimble to an outsourced manufacturing strategy. Adding 6 points of gross margin and driving stock price from $7 to $60 in 2 yrs. Pat holds a Masters degree in Operations from National University Ireland, an MBA for San Jose State University and Masters in Organizational Development at Pepperdine University. He also is an active mentor to CEO’s of Social Benefit Enterprises with Santa Clara University.