Managing Principal & Partner
Timothy Noble is the managing principal and partner of The Avery Point Group, a leading global executive search firm specializing in Lean and Six Sigma leadership talent for clients in Europe and North America. Mr. Noble has over 25 years of executive leadership experience in manufacturing, supply chain management, distribution, continuous improvement and executive search. Throughout his career he has been consistently promoted and has held senior level executive roles in major Fortune 500 companies like General Electric (GE) and The Stanley Works (SWK – which is now Stanley Black & Decker). He also has extensive experience in Lean Manufacturing and is a GE trained Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Prior to his career move into executive search in 2004, Mr. Noble held the position of Director of Global Operations for Stanley-Bostitch, the second largest division of The Stanley Works. In that role, Noble had responsibility for 8 plants and over 1,900 employees with operations throughout North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, supporting revenue in excess of $0.6 Billion. While at The Stanley Works, Noble was also responsible for the North American distribution operations of the business’s Hand Tool and Hardware Group, supporting revenue in excess of $1.0 Billion. In each role at The Stanley Works, Noble delivered significant results, leveraging both Lean and Six Sigma across the business’s manufacturing, distribution and supply chain operations.
Prior to joining The Stanley Works, Noble spent almost 14 years with General Electric and was consistently promoted into roles of increasing responsibility in supply chain management, plant operations, Six Sigma leadership and plant management (GE Executive Band). In his earlier Six Sigma role, while at GE Lighting, Noble had responsibility for driving the North American Production Division’s Six Sigma Stable Operations and Span initiatives across 26 plants in the US, Canada, and Mexico (a leadership development staff role reporting directly to a GE Corporate Officer and VP). In that role, Noble helped deliver significant capacity and throughput improvements in an environment of growing product demand and limited capital investment.
Mr. Noble holds a B.S. in Management / Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received the Salisbury Prize, one of the university’s highest academic awards which is only given to its most meritorious graduates. Upon graduation Noble was recruited into General Electric’s highly selective Manufacturing Management Program (GE MMP), with assignments in GE Transportation and GE Government Electronics divisions. GE’s MMP leadership development program combined over a year of classroom leadership development and operations management training with 4 rotational work assignments across various GE businesses.
The son of a Presbyterian minister and theology professor, Noble spent his youth growing up in Basel, Switzerland and in the Westchester suburbs of New York City. After many corporate promotions and relocations throughout his career, Noble now happily resides with his wife and family in the Atlanta area.
