The Redzone Leadership Team

In 2025, Ken was appointed as President of Redzone. Ken’s vision is simple yet powerful: keep solving real problems for manufacturers through the engagement and empowerment of shop floor teams. His leadership has been a driving force behind advancements like new product modules, Champion AI, and our next-generation approach to frontline productivity.

From 2020-2025, Ken led both product management and solutions consulting for Redzone. As SVP Product, Marketing, and Solutions, his team delivered enhancements to current products while researching and designing the ‘next big thing’ to drive factory productivity increases. The Redzone solutions consultant team helps factories envision and design their digital production system to meet the operational goals for productivity, compliance, maintenance and culture.  Ken’s leadership brought out the deep understanding his team has for the challenges in the industry and expertly map solutions to the need of every plant in the Redzone community.

Ken joined Redzone in 2016 as a Continuous Improvement Coach, implementing Redzone in food processing facilities across North America. He transitioned to solutions consulting to bring his continuous improvement experience to bear to make frontline teams’ jobs easier and provide them with the knowledge and skills to improve safety, quality, and productivity on every shift.

Ken’s professional career has been dedicated to recognizing the importance of frontline workers across America and how their contributions win the day for manufacturers. During his 20 years prior to Redzone, he held roles in manufacturing operations leadership and lean transformation. He was a content contributor and instructor for Villanova University’s Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt and Lean Belt certification programs.

Ken holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida and an M.B.A. from the University of Florida.

In his position as Senior Vice President, Lawrence leads Redzone’s global sales team. With over 20 years in the technology sector, he combines his hands-on experience in manufacturing operations and continuous improvement to support leaders of manufacturing companies, big and small, across all sectors in achieving their strategic goals of growth, productivity, and culture change. Lawrence’s team of subject matter expert sales professionals guide companies through their Redzone evaluation and are dedicated to helping organizations engage and develop their frontline workforce.

Lawrence was a founding member of the Redzone leadership team in 2013, helping the company grow year on year. Prior to Redzone, Lawrence was Program Director at Ignite Solutions, spearheading change management and lean manufacturing initiatives for food and beverage processors. He held various sales and project management roles with CDC Corp from 2006-2011 and started his career as a Consultant at Management Performance Limited, a UK-based boutique Continuous Improvement Consultancy.

Lawrence holds a Bachelors degree in Business & Operations Management from Bournemouth University, England.

Zack is responsible for the entire customer experience at Redzone, including the coaching, implementation and support — but most importantly, the results. His team has a mission to be people-focused above anything else.

Having joined Redzone via Ignite Solutions, Zack was part of the early Redzone team, focusing on building out the coaching organization and providing clear, sustainable, bottom-line results to each Redzone customer. He and his team strive for a culture of excellence by leveraging a customer-first and “white-gloved” approach, whether the task is supporting a technical challenge, coaching operators to win the day, validating software workflows, steering plant leaders to be data-driven, or celebrating shop floor results at a town hall supported by executive leadership.

Prior to Redzone, Zack was Vice President of Operations for Ignite Solutions from 2011-2013, where he embraced a new love for the Food & Beverage industry through developing and deploying CI and lean manufacturing principles. From 2008-2011, Zack expanded his operations leadership skills with the frontline by working with Lockheed Martin in production operations, assembling the C-130 as well as subcomponents for the GMLRS, Arrowhead and Hellfire systems. He is forever grateful for those teams, their patience and collaboration, and the teamwork they shared. Earlier in his career, he worked for Porsche Cars North America and Ford Motor Company. Zack holds both a bachelor’s and masters in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ron is both a strategic and hands on technology leader with 20+ years of Engineering, DevOps, Operations and Sales experience possessing a B.A in International Business with a minor in Computer Science as well as a Master of International Business from Saint Louis University.

Prior to Redzone, Ron was early-on at several start-ups including IntraISP, a SaaS based billing platform for telecommunications companies, where he held leadership roles in software engineering and cloud operations. At IntraISP, Ron helped engineer and scale their SaaS based platform processing over 85 million in monthly credit card transactions and servicing over 2.5 million customers globally. After being sold to Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a world leader in telecommunications billing platforms, Ron continued serving as Director of Operations. Later, moving to Silicon Valley, Ron worked for Onlive, a cloud-based gaming provider as the Senior Director of Solutions Engineering where he led Sales Engineering assisting in the eventual sale to Sony (NYSE: SONY) in 2015.

Ron joined Redzone’s senior leadership team in 2021 leading Product Engineering. As Senior Vice President of Product Engineering, Ron brings his passion for customers, technology, and culture to the product our customers have grown to know and love. If Ron could be summed up, he is curious and entrepreneurial at heart finding passion in building and iterating teams, technology, and products.

As VP of Product Management at Redzone, Blake oversees the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Redzone product suite. Her focus is on delivering tools that drive frontline collaboration, productivity, and operational excellence for factories worldwide.

Since joining Redzone in 2019, Blake has served in leadership roles across Coaching, Solutions, and Product—leading high-performing teams and directly contributing to significant growth in both large enterprise adoption and new product lines. 

Before Redzone, Blake spent over a decade at General Mills in various leadership and continuous improvement roles, ranging from supporting plants with operations, engineering, continuous improvement and safety to internal corporate consulting. Across these roles, she consistently delivered measurable impact in safety, performance, and culture transformation initiatives. 

Blake holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The Ohio State University. She’s passionate about building products that empower frontline teams to achieve breakthrough performance.

As Vice President of Sales, National Accounts, William leads the Large Enterprise National Sales team who work with Redzone’s national and multi-national accounts. William’s team of trusted sales professionals and manufacturing industry experts work closely with companies to successfully evaluate and deploy Redzone to ensure increased productivity and employee engagement across their organizations.

Prior to joining Redzone, William held several executive and sales leadership roles in the Healthcare, Application Development, and Sales Enablement technology industries. 

William holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing from Clemson University. 

As Vice President of Sales, Medium Enterprise, Osvaldo leads a team of trusted sales professionals that span North America, LATAM, and the EMEA regions, guiding community members through their Redzone evaluation, and ultimately impacting their frontline workforce.

With over a decade of experience in the technology sector, he combines his computer programming background with hands-on manufacturing and continuous improvement experience to support manufacturers through digital transformations, culture change, and outsized productivity uplifts.

Osvaldo joined Redzone in 2019 as an Account Executive, where he guided companies through the Redzone evaluation. Prior to Redzone, Osvaldo held a sales leadership role at Keyence Corp, focusing on optimizing manufacturing processes through the implementation of automation, safety, and sensing instrumentation.

Osvaldo holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Central Missouri.

As Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at Redzone, Drew is responsible for internal and external reporting, forecasting, and strategic planning focusing on scalable growth.

Drew brings with him over a decade of expertise in the financial technology sector. Prior to Redzone, Drew’s primary focus was with private equity firms, fund administrators and family offices within the alternative investment solutions space. 

Drew holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami, Herbert Business School and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Elon University, Martha & Spencer Love School of Business.

Eric has overall responsibility for the deployment of the Redzone modules for all Medium-Enterprise customers.

With over 32 years of experience in the Food & Beverage industry, Eric has held a variety of operational leadership roles that have included Engineering, Maintenance, Production, and Continuous Improvement responsibilities.  Over that period of time, Eric has been involved with plant startups, led new product launches, and overseen major capital projects.  Eric started his career with PepsiCo Foods and spent 18 years at various Quaker Oats and Frito-Lay facilities around the country before taking on site leadership responsibilities with several Food Ingredient companies in the Chicagoland area, which is where he currently resides. 

Eric earned his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from William Woods University.

As the VP of Solutions, Jon leads the talented Solutions team at Redzone. This group of former plant leaders and continuous improvement (CI) professionals across a wide variety of industries, helps factories envision, design, and successfully implement Redzone and their digital factory to meet the operational goals for productivity, compliance, maintenance, and culture.

Jon joined Redzone in 2019 as a CI coach prior to moving into the Solutions organization shortly thereafter. Prior to Redzone, Jon has spent the majority of his time in leadership functions ranging from shift leader to plant management in the Tier 1 auto world as well as a nuclear power generation station. Early in his career, he was introduced to the Toyota Production System, where he became enamored with short interval measurements, huddles, and believing the operator was the source of solutions if only they were asked their opinion. This started his journey along the Lean Transformation path that is consistent with his entire team.

Jon holds a Bachelors Degree in Biotechnology from Brock University, as well as Organization Leadership and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from University of Western Ontario. Outside of work, Jon’s passion is to continuously work on his golf game to one day achieve scratch golf handicap.

Michael leads the Redzone Customer Experience team which consists of Customer Success Coaching, Enterprise Success Partners, and the Application Support Team. In addition, Michael oversees the release management process. Under his leadership, his team’s primary goal is to ensure continued success throughout a customer’s entire Redzone journey.

Since joining Redzone in 2018, Michael has worked with customers to guide how they utilize Redzone to improve communication, collaboration, and problem solving within their organizations in order to meet operational and business objectives.

Before joining Redzone, Michael spent over 11 years working in operations and engineering in various roles with Fortune 500 companies in a number of industries, including consumer packaged goods and food and beverage.

Michael holds a Master of Science in Supply Chain Analytics as well as a Bachelor of Science in Economics, both from Oregon State University.

As Senior Legal Counsel for Redzone, Mario leads the Legal Department and brings over 20 years of experience to the role. He is a versatile attorney with extensive law firm and in-house experience. Mario is an experienced negotiator across a wide variety of contracts and skilled at assessing legal risk while implementing practical business solutions. He has worked extensively in both the software industry and the food and beverage industry.

Mario has an undergraduate degree in Government from Cornell University, after which he worked as an accountant for a global bank while studying for an MBA in Finance and Accounting. He earned his final credits for the MBA while also pursuing a law degree, both at New York University, completing both degrees within one year of each other. Mario is a member of the bar associations of both New York and Texas.

Mark leads coaching operations for global customers, which includes implementation and coaching of Redzone, alignment with leadership on organizational goals, and digital enablement of management operating systems and continuous improvement programs deployed across global networks.

Since joining Redzone in 2017, Mark has worked with customers to guide how they utilize Redzone to improve communication, collaboration, and problem solving within their organizations to achieve operational and business objectives.

Prior to joining Redzone, Mark spent over 15 years working in operations, continuous improvement, finance, and quality assurance, with Fortune 500 companies in automotive, medical device, consumer packaged goods, and food and beverage industries.

Mark holds an Executive MBA from Benedictine College and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Northern Iowa.