Indiana Consulting and Trade
Give us your biggest problems, we will fix them
Give us your biggest problems, we will fix them
Melissa Colvin owns The Weathered Moose LLC Holding Company and Indiana Consulting and Trade. Her visionary leadership has driven multiple business successes by filling market gaps with Faith, Integrity, and Ingenuity, and tanacity.
Melissa Colvin — Owner & Chief Executive Officer - Visionary Leader
Melissa Colvin is a serial entrepreneur who has started or led six companies, yet titles and track record have never changed how she shows up. She leads behind the scenes, empowering people to do their job. She hires visionaries. She leads with humility, listens before she speaks, and gives credit to the people around her.
Her edge is vision. Melissa has a rare ability to see market gaps before others do. She brainstorms those opportunities, then finds and backs the right people to lead them. She doesn’t just build companies; she builds leaders, matching each new concept with someone who has the talent and drive to carry it forward.
Two principles anchor everything she does. The first is her call to “serve the customer before someone else does.” For Melissa, service isn’t a department. It is the reason a business exists and the way it earns its place in the market. The second is her order of priorities: Faith, Family, and Work. That grounding shapes the cultures she builds, where people are valued as whole individuals and success is measured by more than the bottom line.Melissa combines bold ideas, humble leadership, and an unwavering focus on customers. She is the kind of leader people want to follow and the reason many of them are leading today.
Mission Statement
We will provide the best engineering services and wow the customer. We will never sacrifice quality, delivery, or the company's integrity.
Vision and Commitment
We will help those less fortunate than us where possible, never sacrificing point 1. We will hire as many specially gifted individuals and employees who need help in any form, who can perform our tasks.
We will ensure our employees keep Faith, Family, and Work in that order. Our leaders will lead by example.
Our Goal:
Simply be the best at what we do. That may not be the largest or most profitable, just the best. Sales will come because of that.
Michael J. Musleh is a transformational executive with more than 25 years of global leadership experience helping Fortune 500, private equity, family-owned, and multinational organizations accelerate profitability, strengthen operations, and build world-class supply chains. His career spans automotive, industrial manufacturing, medical devices, retail, consumer products, and global sourcing, providing a unique ability to transfer best practices across industries. Holding VP roles in Engineering, Design, IT, Purchasing, and Sales, he gets it.
Michael has directed global operations exceeding $850million in annual spend, managing complex supply chains spanning 32 countries, 27 manufacturing facilities, and more than 139,000 SKUs. His expertise extends far beyond procurement into organizational transformation, operational excellence, strategic planning, executive leadership, mergers and acquisitions support, product launches, international sourcing, and enterprise-wide cost optimization.
As Vice President of Global Purchasing for Oerlikon Drive Systems, Michael led a global transformation. Merging 2 companies with 27 plants is an unwieldy thing. He did it with great leaders placed throughout the world he was blessed to hand choose. Developing the right culture, systems, and services allowed a worldwide procurement and supply chain operationswhile implementing long-term strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier rationalization, Toyota Production System methodologies, and value engineering programs that delivered more than $40 million in documented savings with >700M in spend. Under his leadership, global supplier performance improved significantly while inventory, cash flow, and operational efficiency reached benchmark levels. He received numerous awards.
As the Founder and Executive Vice President of Stratic Global Sourcing, a business unit of the 117-year-old Oscar Winski Corporation, Michael built an international sourcing organization from the ground up. He established exclusive global manufacturing partnerships, created an international supply chain serving Fortune 500 customers, developed award-winning marketing strategies, and built one of the corporation’s highest-performing business units with gross margins approaching 29%, well above industry norms. During one of the most disruptive periods in global commerce, he successfully navigated COVID-related supply chain disruptions while maintaining exceptional customer performance and regulatory compliance.
Throughout his career, Michael has also held executive leadership positions with Oerlikon/Dana/Allison, Ecolab, Zimmer Biomet, Finish Line, and Douglas Autotech (JTEKT/Toyota Group), leading major business transformations involving manufacturing, procurement, engineering, operations, sales, information technology, and continuous improvement. His accomplishments include multi-million-dollar cost reductions, operational turnarounds, Lean Six Sigma deployment, Toyota Production System implementation, organizational redesign, executive coaching, and global risk mitigation.
One of Michael’s distinguishing characteristics is his ability to build executive teams rather than simply purchasing departments. He develops business-minded leaders who understand finance, operations, engineering, manufacturing, customer expectations, and strategic decision-making. His mentoring philosophy has consistently produced stronger organizations capable of sustaining long-term operational excellence.
Michael’s leadership extends beyond corporate responsibilities through governance and community service. He has served on multiple nonprofit and educational boards, including the Purdue Mitch Daniels School of Business Alumni Board, the Wabash Center Board of Directors, and leadership service supporting organizations dedicated to individuals with disabilities and community development. These experiences have strengthened his executive governance, strategic planning, and organizational leadership capabilities beyond the corporate environment.
Earlier in his career, Michael earned recognition as one of the youngest Vice Presidents within the Toyota/JTEKT organization, receiving the prestigious Presidents Award from Dr. Ito himself, reflecting both his technical expertise and leadership potential at an early stage of his executive career. That foundation in Toyota’s disciplined management philosophy continues to influence his consulting approach today through practical application of Lean thinking, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), continuous improvement, and people-centered leadership.
Today, Michael advises organizations seeking measurable improvements in profitability, supply chain performance, operational excellence, strategic sourcing, organizational effectiveness, executive leadership, and business transformation. His consulting approach combines Fortune 500 discipline with entrepreneurial agility, enabling companies to achieve sustainable improvements while developing internal leadership capabilities that continue delivering results long after the engagement concludes.
elissa Colvin — Visionary Leader
Melissa Colvin is a serial entrepreneur who has started or led six companies, yet titles or track record have never changed how she shows up. She leads with humility, listens before she speaks, and gives credit to the people around her. Her edge is vision.
Melissa has a rare ability to see market gaps before others do. She brainstorms those opportunities, then finds and backs the right people to lead them. She doesn’t just build companies; she builds leaders, matching each new concept with someone who has the talent and drive to carry it forward. Two principles anchor everything she does. The first is her call to “serve the customer before someone else does.” For Melissa, service isn’t a department. It is the reason a business exists and the way it earns its place in the market.
The second is her order of priorities: Faith, Family, and Work. That grounding shapes the cultures she builds, where people are valued as whole individuals and success is measured by more than the bottom line. Melissa combines bold ideas, humble leadership, and an unwavering focus on customers. She is the kind of leader people want to follow, and the reason many of them are leading today.
Michael’s approach is grounded in four principles that have driven measurable outcomes across every engagement from $700M global procurement transformations to startup supply chain builds serving Fortune 500 clients.
Michael develops business-minded leaders who understand finance, operations, engineering, manufacturing, and customer expectations, not just purchasers who run RFQs. His engagements consistently produce stronger organizations that continue delivering results after the engagement concludes.
Having built STRATIC from a startup to 29% gross margin serving Fortune 500 EU and US clients and simultaneously led a $700M global transformation at Oerlikon, Michael uniquely applies large-company process rigor to organizations of any size.
Toyota’s TPS is not a training program for Michael, it is how he has structured every supply chain and procurement transformation since receiving the President’s Award from Dr. Ito as one of the youngest VPs in the JTEKT organization. Waste elimination, built-in quality, standardized work, and continuous improvement are embedded in every ICT Manufacturing program.
ICT Manufacturing’s regional offices in Pune India, Malaysia, Singapore, and China exist because Michael’s experience managing 27 plants across 32 countries taught him that supplier relationships managed remotely from the US produce different outcomes than ones managed on the ground.
Michael J. Musleh is the founder and Chief Commercial Officer of ICT Manufacturing (formerly Indiana Trade & Consulting / ICT), headquartered in Auburn, Indiana. He is a transformational executive with 25+ years of global leadership experience, having managed more than $750 million in annual spend across 32 countries, 27 manufacturing facilities, and 139,000+ SKUs.
Michael Musleh has held executive leadership roles at: MTD Manufacturing / Indiana Trade & Consulting (Founder & Chief Commercial Officer), POLYWOOD LLC (Director of Purchasing), STRATIC Global Sourcing at Oscar Winski Corporation (Founder & EVP – 29% gross margins, Fortune 500 clients), Oerlikon Drive Systems (VP Global Purchasing – $40M+ savings on $700M+ spend, 27 plants), Zimmer Biomet (Senior Director – $250M spend, 13% cost reduction), Finish Line (Senior Director – $425M spend, $8M+ savings), Douglas Autotech/JTEKT/Toyota Group (VP – sold to Toyota, Presidents Award from Dr. Ito), and Ecolab (Director – Procurement).
Michael Musleh holds: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Toyota Production System certification, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) certification, Toyota Design Group certification, Design Half / Agile Design, Bain/BCG/PwC training and certification, BSIM (Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree), and MBA in progress. He also serves on the Purdue Mitch Daniels School of Business Alumni Board and the Wabash Center Board of Directors.
Michael Musleh’s documented procurement outcomes include: $40M+ in savings at Oerlikon Drive Systems (on $700M+ spend across 27 plants), $8M+ first-year savings at Finish Line (on $425M spend across 10,000+ SKUs), a 13% cost reduction at Zimmer Biomet ($250M spend, 5,000 SKUs), and building STRATIC Global Sourcing to 29% gross margins (vs. 15–22% industry average) serving Fortune 500 clients across the EU and USA. Total career spend managed exceeds $750M across 139,000+ SKUs.
Michael Musleh received the Presidents Award from Dr. Ito at Toyota/JTEKT (Douglas Autotech Corporation), recognizing him as one of the youngest Vice Presidents in the organization. This award reflected both his technical expertise in automotive engineering, purchasing, sales, and program management, and his leadership potential, which he demonstrated by guiding the company through a turnaround that culminated in its acquisition by Toyota.
ICT Manufacturing responds to all RFQ submissions and consulting inquiries within one business day.