Gregg Young

 Biography

Gregg is President of Young Associates, Inc. He has 30 years experience leading new product development and quality improvement efforts in both large corporations and small businesses in a wide variety of industries. Before founding Young Associates, he served as Quality Performance Manager for the Chemicals and Performance Products Department of The Dow Chemical Company. In that capacity, Young led department wide quality training and served on the team who developed Dow’s Six Sigma process. Before that, he held various positions in the Marketing Research and New Product R&D at Dow, and was awarded three U.S. patents. Over the last 10 years, Young Associates has been integrating the best available practices for Innovation and for Quality Improvement to maximize their effectiveness. The results include Fast Track To Excellence (the stand-alone system that reduces defects by 85-100% in just days to weeks in any business), Streamlined FTTE (the simplified version of Fast Track To Excellence that accelerates Six Sigma to generate bigger results by enabling Black Belts to complete 12 or more projects per year), and Designing for Competitive Advantage (the process that identifies unmet customer needs and then develops the winning solutions and the processes to make them).