John Casey

casey@whitehallgroupllc.com

John Casey is a strategic thinker with a definite bias toward thinking outside the box. His career includes assignments in a wide cross-section of business functions, including manufacturing, purchasing, quality, finance, and manufacturing engineering. John’s business perspective and approach was shaped during his three-year assignment working for Toyota at New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (NUMMI), as part of Toyota’s joint venture with General Motors in Fremont, California. At NUMMI, John was the program manager for the launch of the Corolla and Prism car models. In addition, John served as the director of GM’s North American Supplier Quality, the director of Purchasing and Supplier Quality for the Cadillac Luxury Car Division, and the Chrysler director of the Quality Assurance and Audit Team (a supplier development staff).

John has written a book titled, Strategic Error Proofing: Achieving Success Every Time with Smart FMEA’s which is a strategic approach for proactive Error Proofing providing the method and strategy to maximize quality, throughput, and profitability.

John’s career has been spent mostly in the auto industry, and he has been active in industry-wide efforts. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AiAG), is the Laws chairman of the AiAG Quality Steering Committee, and has held multiple chairman positions of different AiAG project teams. John is also a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and served as the 2008–2009 Chairman of the ASQ Automotive Section.