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iSixSigma Live Summit – Premier Sponsor,

AIT Group, Six Sigma Wine Tasting

• AIT Group Premier Sponsor of the 2009 iSixSigma Live Summitin Orlando Florida

• The Premier Sponsor (AIT Group) Six Sigma Wine Tasting was

held at the Trump International

• Lean Six Sigma Conference had ~200 attendee’s with a theme

on Breakthrough Results

AIT Group Sponsor Team:

• Steven Bonacorsi, Vice President of Product and Sales

Development, Moderated the Deployment Models and

Infrastructure track

• Dan Jorgensen, Owner, Presented the AIT Group Overview

• Bill Stokman, Account Team Leader, facilitated the Value Chain

Transformation Master Black Belt Workshop that Integrates

Lean Six Sigma and Supply Chain (SCOR)





What exactly does Six Sigma have to do with wine?

Six Sigma Winery employs Six Sigma principles to create the perfect blend of art and

science in every bottle of wine. The more we get to know you, our customer, the

better we understand your tastes and expectations of a high quality wine.

Is winemaking art or science?

to Kaj Ahlmann, it is both. He is in a position to know: Ahlmann is a practiced

mathematical statistician (he studied variance analysis in Copenhagen, Denmark,

under noted Danish statistician Anders Hald), and the owner of a vineyard in Northern

California.

The native Dane loves wine. He grew up around it as a child in Europe, enjoyed it asa business student in France, and by his adult years had fixated on the Spanish

Tempranillo as a real champion grape. When he stepped down from his role as head

of GE's Employers Reinsurance Corp., he returned to the fruits of his childhood. In

2000, he and his wife, Else, bought 4,300 acres 10 miles from the Napa County-Lake

County line for a vineyard.




AIT Group, Six Sigma Wine Tasting"When I started in the wine business, I wanted to produce a quality product," Ahlmann

said. "And I started from the top. 'Why don't we call this thing Six Sigma Ranch toindicate that it's going to be a slightly different operation?' I looked at the entire

process, from doing the research before you plant the vineyard to producing the wine.

It's a very well-defined process, and in every step of the way you can actually apply

Six Sigma."

Kaj Ahlmann currently sells five wines on the market and by the end of 2008 plans tosell seven wines that range from Cabernet Sauvignon to Sauvignon Blanc to his

beloved Tempranillo. Mr. Ahlmann will be a keynote speaker at the iSixSigma

Live! Summit '09 and will host the Six Sigma Wine Tasting Reception on Tuesday,

January 13, 2009, at the iSixSigma Live! Summit '09.

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