Erik Young

Erik Young

Erik Young is an operations and Lean Sigma professional who has spent his career helping high-growth entrepreneurial corporations, startups, and businesses “make order out of chaos,” and creating systems to scale rapidly. As co-founder of Prime Vector, Erik innovates repeatable processes to make organizations operate better through continuous improvement and strategic operations support. Erik has COO and Strategy Officer-level experience building process and quality systems in high-growth professional services companies. He is the author of The Power of Lean Process; noted speaker/trainer on Lean & continuous improvement. Previously, Erik co-founded and served as CEO of Young at Heart, a pharmacy services company built on the principles of Lean Production (or Toyota Production System), Six Sigma, and ISO 9000, which was sold to a private equity firm nine years later. Prior to Young at Heart, Erik worked at Ariba/SAP (formerly FreeMarkets), Accenture, and P&G. Erik has a BS in Finance from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Dartmouth College, where he served as class president. He served for seven years on the Board of Directors for the Riley Hospital for Children’s Cheer Guild focusing on strategy and process.

Sessions

In A Galaxy Long Long Ago...Lean Process to Freeze the Old Way

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
3:30pm - 4:15pm