Marshall I. Kaufman

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute is a non profit organization that provides healthcare plans and services. It focuses on total health of its members and guided by personal physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Its expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, care delivery, and chronic disease management. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Total Systems Development, Inc. designs and implements lean operating systems. It also provides lean-CPI training services to the air force. It offers system design, mapping, training, certification, implementation, change management, coaching and mentoring and contract vehicles services. The company was founded by John Allen in 1994 and is headquartered in Lexington, KY.