The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards, organized by WCBF, today announced Tom Farrell, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dominion (http://www.dom.com), as the winner of its prestigious Six Sigma & Business Improvement CEO of the Year Award, sponsored by Minitab.

WCBF has also announced the shortlist of finalists for the 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards program. A total of 43 entries from 34 organizations have been selected by the independent judging panel from 12 categories to go forward to the final stages of the judging process.

The finalists for the 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards program are:

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Chemical & Pharmaceuticals

• Hexion Specialty Chemicals - Merck & Co  
• West Point

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Financial Services, sponsored by SSA & Company

• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
• Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
• Deutsche Bank 
• TD Bank Financial Group
• Wyndham Consumer Finance

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Healthcare, sponsored by Argo Inc 

• Fairfield Medical Center
• Medco Health Solutions 
• Miami Children's Hospital 
• OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 
• Providence Health and Services

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Manufacturing 

• Monsanto Company 
• Temple-Inland Edinburg Box Plant

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Transactional Services, sponsored by The Quality Group

• Firstsource Solutions
• IBM Corporation 
• ScottishPower Energy Retail 
• Volt Workforce Solutions

Best Project Achievement in Business Enabling Processes

• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 
• Humana 
• PACCAR 
• Raytheon

Best Project Achievement in Green Six Sigma, sponsored by Instantis

• PACCAR
• Vanguard 
• WNS Global Services

Best Project Achievement in Health & Safety

• Los Angeles County & USC Medical Center
• Miami Children's Hospital 
• Sisters of Saint Francis Health Services

Best Project Achievement in Innovation or Product Development

• Capital One Bank 
• Distributed Learning Directorate, US Army

Best Project Achievement in Sales, Marketing or Customer Experience

• ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company
• Ortho Clinical Diagnostics 
• Pershing
• PHH Arval
• United Airlines 
• Wipro Technologies

Best Emerging Business Improvement Deployment

• ADC Telecommunications 
• Distributed Learning Directorate, US Army
• Miami Children's Hospital

Business Improvement Deployment Leader of the Year Award

• Jay Banerjee, Director, Global Head of Operational Excellence and Innovation, Deutsche Bank
• Chandeep Singh, Executive Vice President - Process Excellence, Firstsource Solutions
• Dalchand Laljit, VP Global Six Sigma, Hexion Specialty Chemicals 
• Colonel Robert C. Morris, Jr., Director, Distributed Learning Directorate, US Army

To learn more about the awards program, please visit our website at http://www.tgssa.com

The winners will be announced at The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Gala Awards Dinner on Wednesday October 14th 2009 at The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida.

The Gala Dinner is part of WCBF's 4th Annual Global Lean Six Sigma & Business Improvement Summit, October 13-16, 2009 in Orlando, which is the largest gathering of C-level and Senior Executives passionate about Six Sigma.

Register now, as places are strictly limited and all those involved in Lean, Six Sigma, Quality and Process Improvement are encouraged to reserve their places now to avoid disappointment later. To register online and save an additional $50 click here. Or you can call TOLL FREE on (1) 800-959-6549 or (1) 312-466-5774 or email reg@wcbf.com . Please use registration code 5099AW Please reply to: alan.gosling@wcbf.com