Martin Ramsay
Martin Ramsay is internationally recognized as someone who combines organizational process and human resource development with information technology to leverage organizational effectiveness. He was featured in Fortune as “an expert on the organizational impact of new information systems” who impresses clients with his “preparedness and clarity.” The Center for Digital Education gave him their “In the Spotlight” Award, calling him one of the “most innovative, hard-working, trend-setting IT leaders in the nation.” In 2008, his Learning Asset Management Project (LAMP) won the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. He has worked on four continents in thirteen countries in his quest to help organizations.
Mr. Ramsay is the founder and managing director of the LAMP Consortium, a community of colleges, universities and other educational organizations that share a common learning management platform. The LAMP Consortium won the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Technology Collaboration in 2008. It continues to be a vibrant community of learners.
M. Ramsay is also the found of CEATH Company, a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations become more effective. CEATH Company leverages expertise in organizational processes and human dynamics to accomplish its mission. Through CEATH Company, Mr. Ramsay has developed a myriad of experientially-based training programs, designed diverse software applications and acted as a consultant to a host of internationally recognized clients in such areas as business process improvement, customer relationship management, Business Information Technology Deployment (a field pioneered by CEATH Company), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). He has conducted numerous automotive dealership reviews in both North America and Europe using a process that includes development of action plans and follow-up and tracks status and results in a software tool developed by CEATH Company. CEATH Company’s Factory on a Desk-Top™ experiential learning laboratory has gained international attention as a process redesign and improvement tool.
Mr. Ramsay has spent the last 25 years honing his skills in the real-world laboratory of American and international business, higher education and not-for-profit sectors. He has served as a manager of education and development, designed and implemented three complete MRP II systems and developed and run a corporate information center. He has worked in 13 different countries on three continents.
The results of Mr. Ramsay's work have been published in Industrial Engineering, PC Magazine, ASTD’s Training and Development Journal, Mechanical Engineering, APICS: The Performance Advantage, Computer Graphics World, Information Center, and others. Mr. Ramsay has spoken or presented papers before international conferences of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), The Institute for Management Research (TIMS), the National Association for Industrial Technology (NAIT), Educause and has been the featured teleconference speaker for National Technological University. He is the author of a book of short stories, Lightly Salted Stories and a new novel, The Possum Principles, set in a manufacturing plant that explores the role of information technology in successful enterprises.
Mr. Ramsay holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and education. He and his wife of over 40 years have four grown sons. They live in Berea, Kentucky in a home they designed using CAD software.
