Richard Mizuno

Richard brings over 25 years of consulting and business experience to Kalypso’s clients, serving the oil and gas, oilfield services, chemicals, manufacturing, and engineering and construction industries.

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Education and Experience

Prior to joining Kalypso, Richard held senior positions with a number of global consultancies. Former roles included Director in the Manufacturing and Energy Practices of Deloitte Consulting, Vice President in the Oil & Gas Practice of HCL Axon, and Managing Director with EnterSys Group, where he also served as the Managing Partner for several years. Richard began his career as an industrial engineer with The Gillette Company.

Richard has extensive experience assisting global clients to plan and execute change efforts in complex environments by utilizing new organizational structures, revamped business processes and advanced technological enablers.  He has achieved significant results in the oil and gas, oilfield services, and engineering and construction sectors, as well as in discrete manufacturing, industrial machinery, chemicals and other process industries. Throughout his consulting career, Richard has specialized in program and project management, program planning, process redesign, change management, business case determination and approaches for attaining value from enterprise applications.  He has also authored and implemented several related consulting methodologies and approaches.

Richard has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.

Work With Kalypso

Richard’s work at Kalypso will focus on serving the manufacturing and energy industries. His extensive background in leading large-scale change programs will help Kalypso’s clients achieve significant strategic and operational improvements in their innovation capabilities. Richard will also be leading the initiative to develop the next generation of Rapid Results, Kalypso’s industry leading PLM implementation methodology.

Outside the Office

Richard lives in Kingwood, TX with his recently retired wife and two kids.  In his spare time and to avoid housework, Richard can often be found coaching, refereeing or watching (but certainly not playing) a game of lacrosse anywhere he can.