Tom Ramunno, Co-founder & Senior Managing Partner, Plenary LLC
A seasoned, Big 4 Consulting Managing Partner, Fortune 50 Corporate Operating Manager, and Venture Management Executive, Tom Ramuno has 35 + years of experience in assisting organizations address three fundamental categories of performance: Growth and innovation, Business value and leverage, and Transparency and survivability.
Tom’s past experiences include: Managing Partner at KPMG/Bearing Point; Managing Principal at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells; Vice President of Vertical Markets at META Group/Gartner; and, Director of Strategic Planning, and Global Product Management at Johnson & Johnson.
MBA, University of Georgia; Postgraduate, Tufts, Strategy and Policy; Beta Gamma Sigma, Business Honor Society; Who’s Who.
Pleneri was formed to pursue the tremendous opportunities in the beleaguered US (and Global) apparel/fashion/retail industry - recognizing it would lead into the global industry. Plural Technology is the Strategic Technology Partner with Pleneri.
US apparel manufacturing missed Industry 3.0…Leapfrogging to 4.0 and beyond requires breakthrough thinking outside the industry…
Apparel manufacturing hasn’t been addressed in the US for 40+ years. The significant disrupting factor that hastened apparel manufacturing’s precipitous decline is outsourcing, resulting in 1,000,000 jobs lost and strategic business lock-in, the inability to innovate. Today, 98% of the apparel is imported into the US every year. The apparel industry has been attempting to re-engineer their business models over the past few years, a recognition of the consumer’s new market leverage. A business model has been defined and embraced: "sustainable fast fashion", a market differentiation model, defined by retailers and fashion experts, but very difficult to implement without fundamentally restructuring supply. Faster new product development, continuous innovation responding to ever changing fashion trends, requires a strong PLM backbone and a better supply model. With PLM and a Digital Twin at its core, Pleneri’s* virtual value streams, modern factories and an integrating/enabling platform transforms the global apparel manufacturing industry starting in the US.