Meet Kenzo

Role & Responsibility

Kenzo Takai is our Chief Operations Officer (COO), responsible for guiding Manufacturo’s operational strategy and turning product vision into an executable roadmap that gives customers a lasting competitive edge. He oversees services, delivery, and internal operations to align teams around clear priorities and ensure our platform is implemented efficiently and scales with customer needs.

Experience & Expertise

Kenzo brings more than 25 years in enterprise manufacturing software across aerospace, defense, and other mission-critical industries. He has held leadership roles in product innovation, services, and solution consulting at companies including iBASEt, SpaceX, and Apriso. 

Highlighted experience includes

  • Helped build WarpDrive, the ERP at SpaceX, and MES for Use Terminals
  • Over a decade at Apriso in product, services, and presales leadership roles
  • 5 years as a solution consultant at i2 Technologies, supply chain and manufacturing software company
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Go live fast and keep moving fast. Implementation should move at the speed of the factory, not the vendor. Go live is not the finish line. It is the starting point for continuous improvement that gives innovative, high-complexity manufacturers the agility they need.
25 YEARS
Leading Manufacturing Software Product & Service Teams
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