Manufacturing Leadership Journal

Lisa Campbell

Vice President, Manufacturing Industry Strategy & Marketing, Autodesk

As Vice President
of Industry
Strategy and
Marketing for
Manufacturing at
Autodesk, Lisa Campbell is
responsible for managing
industry strategy, business
development, go-to-market and
industry marketing for key
Autodesk manufacturing seg-
ments, including industrial
machinery, automotive, and
building product manufactur-
ers. She has worked for the
company in a number of roles,
including Vice President of
Marketing and Product
Management, General
Manager and VP of Geospatial
Business, and VP of Web and
eBusiness operations. Prior to
Autodesk she served as Vice
President of Marketing and
Product Management for
Evolve Software. She holds a
Bachelor’s degree in maths and
computer science from Boston
College and an M.B.A. from
Babson College. Campbell also
serves as a Member of the
Board of Directors at the Open
Geospatial Consortium.

Tim Braithwaite

Vice President, Operations, Automated Packaging Systems

Tim Braithwaite acts
as Vice President of
Operations for glob-
al plastics packaging
supplier, Automated
Packing Systems. An employee-
owned ESOP company, 50-year
old Automated Packaging is
headquartered in Streetsboro,
Ohio, and now has a sales, ser-
vice, and distribution network
throughout North America,
Europe, Latin America, Asia and
Australia, with more than 30,000

packaging systems in operation worldwide. The company estimates that its nine manufacturing plants produce more bags-on-a-roll and bagging systems than all of its competitors combined.

Braithwaite holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from West Virginia University.

Himanshu Parikh

Vice President, Manufacturing Operations, Ventana Medical Systems, Roche Group

Himanshu Parikh is
responsible for man-
ufacturing opera-
tions focusing on tis-
sue diagnostics and
sequencing at Ventana Medical
Systems, part of the global
Roche Group. He is a certified
Six Sigma Black Belt and has
been instrumental in the compa-
ny’s Smart Systems initiative,
which provides intuitive, integrat-
ed staining and workflow man-
agement platforms that optimize
laboratory efficiencies to reduce
errors. With over 20 years experi-
ence in the biomedical industry,
his previous roles include
Director of Operations at BD
BioSciences, Director of
Operations at PerkinElmer LAS,
and Manufacturing Manager at
Digene Corporation. He holds a
Master’s degree in management
from the University of
Maryland, and a Ph.D. in micro-
biology from the Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda
in India. In 2014 he won a
Manufacturing Excellence Award
from the Association of
Manufacturing Excellence.

Scott Tilzey

Vice President, Global Manufacturing, International Game Technology

As Vice President of
Global
Manufacturing for
London-
headquartered gam-
ing and lottery company
International Game Technology
(IGT), Scott Tilzey oversees all
global manufacturing and service
part distribution activities in
multiple locations around the
world. With over 12,000 employ-