Lou Senunas Named Vice President, E-Business, Six Sigma and Productivity For Johnson Controls
11 September 2000
Lou Senunas Named Vice President, E-Business, Six Sigma and Productivity For Johnson ControlsMILWAUKEE, Sept. 11 Johnson Controls, Inc. today announced the election of Lou Senunas as Vice President, E-Business, Six Sigma and Productivity. He will report to the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. With his new responsibilities, Senunas will "work with our global automotive and nonresidential building markets business units to continue development of a unified E-business strategy that leverages E-business efforts throughout the company," said James H. Keyes, Chairman and CEO. "E-business will have a profound impact on our industries and enable Johnson Controls to establish new growth opportunities while achieving significant increases in productivity in virtually all of our processes." For the past year, Senunas served as Vice President of Six Sigma and Productivity. He will continue to lead the corporation's global deployment of Six Sigma, a world-class quality improvement program designed to strengthen the company's mission "to continually exceed customers' increasing expectations." "Our E-business and Six Sigma initiatives are very complementary," said Keyes. "Both support improved quality, first-time capability, cost reduction and time compression for our products and services. We expect that bringing them together will speed up improvements throughout the company." Senunas joined Johnson Controls in 1984, and has served in a number of management positions, including Vice President and General Manager of the former Plastics Machinery Division, and General Manager of the Ford Business Unit and General Manager of Interiors, both in the Automotive Systems Group. He earned an MBA from Harvard University, and MS and BS degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan. Johnson Controls, Inc. is a global market leader in automotive systems and facility management and control. In the automotive market, it is a major supplier of seating and interior systems, and batteries. For non-residential facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control systems and services, energy management and integrated facility management. Johnson Controls, founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis. Its sales for 1999 totaled US$16.1 billion.