Kevin Fallon – President, Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Fallon brings more than 20 years of engineering, marketing, operations and executive management experience to Pelion. His background includes positions with RCA and General Electric, founder of four technology ventures, and executive positions in private and public companies.
Highlights include serving as president and CEO of All-Control Systems, where he built the company from start-up before it was acquired by Tava Technologies. Kevin was chief operating officer of Tava and president of two divisions, where he directed the integration of five merged entities that jumped revenue from $36 million to more than $100 million in 30 months. Tava subsequently was acquired by REAL Software for approximately $200 million. More recently, as president of Denver-based internet security firm MX Logic, Kevin led an increase in sales of more than 900 percent in one year.
He holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Wharton School / University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.
Dave Gleditsch – Chief Technology Officer
Dave Gleditsch is a leading authority in business transformation based on Lean and Flow Manufacturing principles with over 30 years of manufacturing and systems development experience. In his current role as Chief Technology Officer for Pelion Systems, he oversees the development and deployment of all Pelion technology, including both software and lean implementation best practices.
Prior to his tenure at Pelion Systems, Dave was the corporate VP of Manufacturing Technology at the American Standard Family of Companies during the 1990’s where he served as the global leader for the Lean transformation that resulted in the liberation of over $800 million of working capital by tripling inventory turnover rates while doubling sales. American Standard, Trane, and Westinghouse Air Brake won top supplier awards from the likes of Home Depot, Ericsson and Mercedes-Benz by delivering industry-leading customer service and flexibility.
At American Standard, Dave's teams drove Lean transformations of 85 plants around the world and certified 25 plants for attaining world-class manufacturing and business performance. Dave led Standard’s internal rapid application development of FASTrack™ Lean engineering, customer demand management, and Six Sigma data collection software tools, much as he had done in the mid-1980’s for Hewlett-Packard. Dave drove the global rollout of Six Sigma for American Standard, implemented the single minute exchange of die process for GM’s Fisher Body Division, created the rapid DFTTM implementation process for the JCIT Institute of Technology, and designed Lean production lines for high volume production at Conner Peripherals (now Seagate).
Dave holds an undergraduate degree in Production Management from General Motors Institute with a Masters in Market Strategy from Regis University. He is a professional member of APICS with CPIM certification. He currently holds four patents in Demand Management methodology, with a fifth patent pending.
John Howlett – Vice President, Marketing
John Howlett is a seasoned technology marketing executive with a strong track record of helping emerging solution providers develop effective market positioning and build visibility. As head of marketing for Pelion, he manages customer and industry communication, develops solution requirements based on market input, and supports business development initiatives in both direct and indirect channels. Prior to joining the company, John worked as a senior executive within the Technology Practice of Ruder Finn, an international marketing consultancy that won Agency of the Year honors from the former Marketing Computers magazine in 2000. Over the course of his nine-year career at Ruder Finn, he played a key role in establishing the firm as a leading partner in the enterprise software arena, winning assignments from such organizations as Microsoft, SPSS, Teradata and Vitria Technology and numerous industry awards.
John established a deep understanding of how technology supports manufacturing operations and supply chain management while providing counsel to the likes of Click Commerce (now part of Illinois Tool Works), ICG Commerce, Kinaxis, Logistics.com (now part of Manhattan Associates), MAPICS (now part of Infor), RedPrairie, TradeBeam, and Transplace. He also led engagements with the market research firm ARC Advisory Group and the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. Included among John’s career highlights is a strategic repositioning campaign for Product Lifecycle Management solutions provider SDRC that helped drive the company’s acquisition by EDS in one of the largest software deals of 2001.
John pursued his undergraduate studies at Indiana University and earned a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business.
