James Bonini is vice president of Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), a not-for-profit organization at Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America (TEMA), which shares Toyota Production System know-how with North American organizations. From 2004 to 2010, Bonini was general manager of TEMA’s supplier commodity engineering division, which leads new model projects and mass production supplier development projects in North America. Bonini has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and two master’s degrees in management and material science engineering from MIT.