Welcoming Kelly Huckabone: Driving Commercial Excellence and Growth at SmartSkin

SmartSkin Technologies is pleased to welcome Kelly Huckabone as our new Director of Commercial Excellence, reinforcing our commitment to operational excellence and delivering greater value to our customers.

In this role, Kelly will lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on enhancing efficiency, quality, scalability, and customer outcomes.

Kelly will spearhead the design, deployment, and sustainment of Commercial Excellence frameworks, including Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and Kaizen to standardize best practices and enable scalable growth. She will work closely with senior leadership, customers, and key stakeholders to embed a culture of continuous improvement and strengthen how SmartSkin supports and delivers value globally.

"I am very excited to join SmartSkin Technologies and leverage my experience to support our customers' journey with our amazing solutions," Kelly shared.

Kelly brings a highly accomplished background shaped by both clinical and global industry experience. She began her career as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in Microbiology and Transfusion Medicine, working in hospitals and with Canadian Blood Services. She then spent 24 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, including 13 years leading Quality, Regulatory, Health & Safety, and Lean initiatives.

Her career also includes global roles in auditing, project management, training, and change management, where she supported customer-facing initiatives and partnered with service and sales teams worldwide.

A strong advocate for continuous learning, Kelly holds certifications in Lean, Change Management, Six Sigma Black Belt, Risk Management, and Project Management, and recently completed a two-year Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate at UBC.

Kelly’s expertise and leadership will help in advancing SmartSkin’s mission to help manufacturers achieve higher performance, consistency, and operational excellence.