Organization

Contact Information

Office of the President

Bruce Lenzer, CVS, FSAVE, CQM/OE, CLA, CAQMSA

6720 Piedra Aspero St. NW

Albuquerque, MM 87120

Tel: 505-539-5513

The Lawrence D. Miles Value Foundation - Value Engineering | Value Analysis | Value Methodology | Function Analysis Mission

  • Create and promote teaching of Value Methodology courses at university level

  • Promote public awareness (publications, multimedia, technology transfer programs)

  • Encourage research and development through scholarship/grants programs

Articles of Incorporation

The Foundation was incorporated in the District of Columbia. Click on Articles to review them.

Foundation Bylaws

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(Revised by vote: February 20, 2021)

Organization Chart

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2022-2023 Organization Chart

The Lawrence D. Miles Value Foundation - Value Engineering | Value Analysis | Value Methodology | Function Analysis

Board of Directors

Director Occupation

Drew M. Algase, CVS, FSAVE

Director, Chairman

Value Management Institute of Michigan

Director

Email: algase@valuefoundation.org

Bruce Lenzer, CVS, FSAVE, CQM/OE, CLA, CAQMSA

Director, President

Synergy Value Solutions, LLC

President

Email: Lenzer@valuefoundation.org

James D. Bolton, PE, CVS, PVM, FSAVE

Director, Executive Director

Bolton Value Consulting

President

Email: Bolton@valuefoundation.org

James R. Vickers

Director, Treasurer

Raytheon (retired)

VE Manager

Email: vickers@valuefoundation.org

Dr. Manfred Ninaus, PVM, TVM, CMC

Director

Value for Europe

President

Email: Ninaus@valuefoundation.org

Kathy F. Bethany, FSAVE

Director, VP Operations

SAVE International

Past President

Email: Bethany@valuefoundation.org

Steve Garrett, CVS

Director, VP Education

Kirk Value Planners

Partner, Chief Operating Officer

Email: Garrett@valuefoundation.org

Tammy Dow, M.Sc.Eng, P. Eng., CVS

Director

AECOM

Value Specialist

Email: Tammy@valuefoundation.org

Richard Harrington, CVS, FSAVE

Director

Harrington & Associates

President

Email: richard@valuefoundation.org

Javier Masini, CVS

Director

RHA, LLC

Partner

Email: masini@valuefoundation.org

Dr. Celestine Aguwa

Director

Wayne State University

Associate Professor

Email: celestine@valuefoundation.org

Istvan Tarjani, CMC, CVS, PVM, TVM

Director

FOKUSZ-2 Economy Development Center Ltd Co

President

Email: Istvan@valuefoundation.org

Joseph (Joe) Long, CVS®, PE

Director

Value Management & Global Standardization

Inteva Products

Executive Director

Email: joseph@valuefoundation.org

James McCuish, CVS

Director

Pinnacle Results, LLC

Managing Partner

Email: Jmccuish@valuefoundation.org

Michael E. Pearsall P.Eng., CVS, FEC

Director

SAVE International

President

Lawrence D. Miles Value Foundation - Value Engineering | Value Analysis | Value Methodology | Function Analysis

Trustees

Members of the Board of Trustees include international leaders of industry, government and academia who have been involved in and have experience in the application of value methodology within their organizations. This Board supports the objectives of the Foundation by:


  • Serving as reference to those funding Foundation projects

  • Furnishing advice on achieving goals and objectives

  • Proposing projects

  • Responding to queries concerning their experience with value methodology

Trustees Distinguished VE Experience

Donald E. Parker, PE, CCE, CVS-Life, FSAVE

In 1977 Don started the Miles Value Foundation as a tax exempt sister organization to SAVE in order to donate his text book, VE Theory, and the first college curriculum for Catholic University and Georgia Tech. He served on the Foundation Board for 41 years, first as Chairman for 9 years and then President for 11 years. He was the first VE Manager for the Chesapeake Division of NAVFAC, the Deputy Director of VE for NAVAIR, and then established and directed the first Federal Government VE program at the General Services Administration (GSA). While with GSA he authored SAVE’s first certification program to enable his agency to hire CVS’s.

The Honorable Leslie L. Byrne

Former Congresswoman from Virginia who was pivotal in the mandating of VE at both State & Federal levels.

Robert A. Burton

A thirty-year veteran of procurement law and policy development, he served in the Executive Office of the President as Deputy Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), the nation's top career federal procurement official. He also served as Acting Administrator for two years during his seven-year tenure at OFPP.

James A. Rains, CVS-LIFE, FSAVE

Founder of the Advanced Value Group, LLC; past President and CEO of SAVE International; member of the SAVE International College of Fellows, past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the L.D. Miles Value Foundation and Chairman of the General Motors Corporate Value Management Committee.

Dr. Manabu Sawaguchi, Dr-ENG, CVS-Life

Sawaguchi-san has been an advisor to the Society of Japanese Value Engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in practical technology management, teaching, application and development of Value Engineering (VE), Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and TRIZ in Japan and the Philippines. He has held the following leading roles in Japan: Vice Chairman, Japan TRIZ Association, a member of the Japan Industrial Management Association, the Operations Research Society of Japan, Japan Association for Management Systems and Japan's MOT Society

Muthiah Kasi, CVS


Lindsey Gardner, CVS


Steven Kirk, Ph.D., CVS, AIA