Our People

BMA Europe's highly experienced people are key to its strength.

When you work with us you can be sure your project is in the hands of the best. All our consultants are seasoned experts with years of practical experience, advanced degrees, and fine reputations as consultants, speakers, educators, authors, and as leaders in the industry.

	Brian H. Maskell, President of BMA Europe Ltd., has more than 25 years' experience in manufacturing and distribution industry. He has held a variety of management positions from the shop-floor of an electronics company to Manager of European Inventories for the Xerox Corporation to Vice President of Product Development and Customer Service of the Unitronix Corporation. Over the past ten years Mr. Maskell's consulting practice has taken him to many manufacturing and distribution companies in the United States, England, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. He has assisted these companies in the implementation of advanced manufacturing techniques including lean and agile manufacturing methods, logistics and supply chain management, lean accounting, value-stream costing/management, new performance measurement, process re-engineering, enterprise information systems, and total quality management. A sought after speaker, Brian Maskell is the author of six books including; one in 2003 on the practical aspects of implementing Lean Accounting, Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing (1991), Software and the Agile Manufacturer (1993), New Performance Measures (1994), Making the Numbers Count; the accountant as an agent of change (1996), and the software product Putting Performance Measurement to Work (1999) from Productivity Press. Mr. Maskell’s works address the needs of manufacturers as they move into the increasingly competitive 21st century. Mr. Maskell conducts seminars and workshops around the world on such subjects as Lean Accounting, Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Software and the Agile Manufacturer, Value Stream Cost Management, and Agile Manufacturing.
	Ross Maynard, Senior Consultant with BMA Europe Ltd., is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Managment Accountants and has worked as a coach and consultant with a wide range of British and European organizations. He is the author of “Successful Business Growth” (Hodder & Stoughton 1998) as well as many articles on lean accounting and business improvment. He places emphasis on the need for strong leadership and lean-focused managment systems supporting a company’s lean transition.
	Bruce Baggaley, Senior Partner, BMA, Inc., specializes in the development and implementation of management processes that incorporate Lean Accounting and lean performance management systems. His functional expertise includes the development of management information for operational andblbpic.jpg (36385 bytes) financial planning and control, in implementing financial accounting control systems, and in applying activity-based management principles to reengineering operating processes. He has extensive experience in aerospace and defense, public utility, telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing and service industries. Prior to forming his own firm Mr. Baggaley was a Accounting and Audit partner at KPMG responsible for strategic planning for the firm and a managing associate in the management controls consulting practice of Coopers & Lybrand in New York, and was a Professional Accounting Fellow at the Securities & Exchange Commission. Mr. Baggaley received an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he was a member Beta Gamma Sigma honorary society and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Baggaley is a frequent speaker on lean accounting and the management of lean companies and is co-author of the book "Practical Lean Accounting" about implementing Lean Accounting
	Nick Katko, joined BMA in 2002 as a senior consultant. Prior to joining BMA, Nick was CFO for various manufacturing companies that implemented lean practices and has also worked in public accounting. As a CFO, Nick has led the companies in the implementation of lean accounting practices such as performance measurements, value stream costing, lean decision making and the elimination traditional standard cost systems. As a senior consultant with BMA, Nick uses this experience to assist clients in lean accounting implementation by working closely with clients resolve the real-world issues they face in implementation. These issues include removing traditional cost-based performance measurement systems in favor of lean performance measurement systems, migrating from a traditional income statement to a value stream costing income statement, creating a transaction elimination maturity path and working with management to create new business decision making models based on lean accounting practices. Nick is a Certified Public Accounting and has a BS in Accounting and MBA in Finance, both from the University of Kentucky.
	David Paino Prior to joining BMA, Inc., David was the Vice President of Operations with an auto-parts remanufacturing company in Philadelphia. David was the driving force behind the introduction of lean manufacturing and other lean methods that – according to the company’s President – saved the company in these increasingly competitive times. David has also served as President of an industrial parts distribution company and is very experienced with warehousing, distribution, and inventory planning methods. Prior to moving into production operations, David did his MBA work at Villanova University as a finance major and worked as a plant and corporate controller. David is currently working on Lean Accounting projects with the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company, a multi-national defense equipment manufacturer; a Maryland pre-fabricated building products company, and a division of the Ingersoll Rand Corporation. David also specializes in quick & easy kaizen methods that are used to motivate and empower the entire workforce for lean improvement.