Operations

Frank is a seasoned strategist with more than 12 years of strategy experience helping small, medium, and large Fortune 500 organizations in the manufacturing, energy, finance, and healthcare industry to craft, shape, and implement innovation strategies and best solutions to prospective client’s situations to deliver revenue growth, introduce new products and capabilities, and enhance customer experiences.

To help clients achieve their winning aspiration, Frank develops and leads execution of strategic possibilities that are desirable (via conducting market and user research), feasible (via using Lean Six Sigma and Business Design), and viable (via running financial models). 

He earned his MBA from University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management in Strategy, holds a master’s in chemical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and possess a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from the American Society of Quality (ASQ), Project Management (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), and a Business Innovation certificate from IDEO.  

Business Service Director – Operations Support

A former manufacturing executive, Eades has led numerous large plant transformations, including performance turnarounds, rapid volume growth and product line changes.

He has extensive experience as a supervisor, engineer, production manager and operations manager. For over 15 years, he served as a plant manager for companies such as Blue Ridge Fireboard, IKEA Industry, Elkay Manufacturing, Mohawk Industries, and Armstrong Flooring.

Eades earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. A resident of Danville, Va., he is an officer of the Pittsylvania County Public Library Foundation and served on the board of the Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce for several years.

Joseph J. Stark III is GENEDGE’s Business Services Director – Operations. In this role, his primary responsibilities are to craft and execute a solutions path to support manufacturers specific needs by consulting alongside GENEDGE Regional Growth Managers (RGMs) concerning value-added solutions to best address a prospective client’s situations, challenges, and needs.

Joe also has a supporting role as an expert for manufacturers and manufacturing. He strives to understand emerging trends, technologies, and challenges facing the client base/market in the GENEDGE service regions, leveraging Third-Party resources where applicable, and propose changes to GENEDGE’s strategy as appropriate.

He is a major influence in building GENEDGE’s Alliance Partner Network through staying knowledgeable of currently approved Third-Party resources of their service areas, expertise, capabilities, and previous project performance, while identifying resource gaps and provide this information to the appropriate manager to address. He provides support in the technical vetting of interested Third-Party resources and onboarding new Third Parties on how to deliver to GENEDGE technical standards/requirements.

Joe brings over 35 years of industrial experience in the operations and manufacturing environment. He has experience developing and leading teams in all functional areas of operations and production with a continuous improvement focus initiating and implementing a culture of change while building high performance teams. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University with a focus in Operations Management.