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Tim Noble is the managing principal of The Avery Point Group, a global executive search firm specializing in Lean, Six Sigma and operations talent for clients in Europe and North America. Mr. Noble has over 20 years of executive leadership experience in manufacturing, supply chain management, distribution, and executive search. Throughout his career he has been consistently promoted and has held senior level executive roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE) and The Stanley Works (SWK). He also has extensive experience in Lean Manufacturing and is a GE trained Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Prior to his career move into executive search in 2004, Mr. Noble held the position of Director of Global Operations for Stanley-Bostitch, the second largest division of The Stanley Works. In that role, Noble had responsibility for 8 plants and over 1,900 employees with operations throughout North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, supporting revenue in excess of $0.6 Billion. While at The Stanley Works, Noble was also responsible for the North American distribution operations of the business's Hand Tool and Hardware Group, supporting revenue in excess of $1.0 Billion. In each role at The Stanley Works, Noble delivered significant results, leveraging both Lean and Six Sigma across the business's manufacturing, distribution and supply chain operations. Prior to joining The Stanley Works, Noble spent almost 14 years with General Electric and was consistently promoted into roles of increasing responsibility in supply chain management, plant operations, Six Sigma leadership and plant management (GE Executive Band). In his Six Sigma role, while at GE Lighting, Noble had responsibility for driving the North American Production Division's Six Sigma Stable Operations and Span initiatives across 26 plants in the US, Canada, and Mexico. In that role, Noble helped deliver significant capacity and throughput improvements in an environment of growing product demand and limited capital investment. Mr. Noble holds a B.S. in Management / Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received the university's Salisbury Prize, an award only given to its most meritorious graduates. Upon graduation Noble was recruited into General Electric's highly selective Manufacturing Management Program (GE MMP), with assignments in GE Transportation and GE Government Electronics divisions.