Ep.196 – Glen Raven VP of Operations, Randy Blackston

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Management, Careers, Business

4.9 • 225 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Our guest today is COO Alliance Member Glen Raven’s VP of Operations, Randy Blackston. As VP of Operations, Randy is responsible for global manufacturing of the Sunbrella Branded Products. He’s also directly responsible for the operations of 5 manufacturing plants with 1,500 associates. His biggest achievement includes the design, engineered staffing plan with job […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to
0:11.8	its founder Cameron Herald.
0:14.0	In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,
0:20.0	and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.
0:23.0	And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.
0:27.0	Our guest today is Glen Raven's VP of operation Randy Blackston.
0:33.4	As VP of operations Randy is responsible for global manufacturing of the SunBrela
0:38.0	branded products. He's also responsible for the operations of five manufacturing plants with
0:43.2	1500 associates. His biggest achievement includes a design,
0:47.2	engineered staffing plan with job specs, plant layout, and machinery
0:50.4	specification for the million square foot operations facility in
0:54.0	Anderson, South Carolina. Randy led the corporate wide sustainability
0:57.7	initiative achieving landfill free status in all operations in North America, France,
1:02.2	and China.
1:03.0	Randy has an expansive amount of skills and experiences with Glen Raven,
1:06.4	being at the company for over 29 years.
1:08.6	Randy is also a member of the COO Alliance.
1:11.1	So Randy, welcome to the Second Command Podcast.
1:13.8	Thanks, Cameron, I appreciate it. Good to see you.
1:16.0	Yeah, when you and I first, yeah, nice to see you again too.
1:18.6	When you and I first chatted, it was about the SunBlla product line and brand and I was just like wow like that that like everybody knows that thing is that your marquee product line.
1:32.0	Yeah, that's our flagship product. The
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