Our fearless operations leader is an expert at organizational change and driving sustainable improvement in productivity, profitability and growth.
Garry Peterson
Chief Operating Officer
Garry's focus at Rise is to maximize efficiency and maintain predictable, excellent results. He brings extensive operations knowledge including his leadership in the Turnaround Consulting Practice at Plante & Moran, PLLC, a $275 million accounting and management consulting firm employing nearly 750 people. In that capacity, he had a client list of well over 40 small to medium size companies, and three international corporations with revenue over $6 billion. Garry and his team provided CEO and Executive Management training in the implementation of operational and strategic solutions for retail, distribution, manufacturing, aerospace, customer service and supply chain management.
In addition to having extensive P&L responsibilities, Garry has a wealth of management, coaching and training experience gained in over 25 years of leading high performance teams in organizational change and driving sustainable improvement in productivity, profitability and growth. He has held senior domestic and international positions with General Motors Corporation, Dover Corporation, M.A. Hanna Company and Wynn’s International. He was also the Executive Vice President of the Tesma Operating Group of Canada’s Magna International.
Garry holds undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, an Associate Degree in Operations Research and an MBA. He is also the guest lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the college Graduate School level. Garry does extensive public speaking and was the commencement speaker at his alma mater. He is active in several professional associations, including APICS, SAE, ASQ, AME and SME.
