Supply Chain Council Announces New Officers and Members to Board of Directors

HOUSTON -(BUSINESS WIRE)- Supply Chain Council (SCC), a global nonprofit organization that advances supply chain performance, has named new board officers and board members. The board provides strategic direction and sets policies that enable Supply Chain Council to advance services to members via awareness, research, education, and training.

Members elected the following board officers to lead the organization:

• Chair: John Sells, Senior Manager, Logistics & Sustainment, Lockheed Martin;
• Chair-Elect: Gary Kilponen, Vice President, Operations, Cameron Valves and Measurement Group;
• Secretary: Nancy Craft, Director, Customer Loyalty, Volvo;
• Treasurer: Larry Lichter, Vice President, Supply Chain Planning & Customer Fulfillment, McCormick & Company, Inc.; and
• Immediate Past Chair: David Malenfant, Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Alcon Labs.

“As a member-based organization, Supply Chain Council is governed by an elected board of directors. The insight and direction that these talented supply chain executives provide has been instrumental to our success for the past 15 years,” said SCC Executive Director Joseph Francis. “Under the leadership of Chair John Sells, the board will ensure our continued growth and relevance for our members and the entire supply chain community.”

According to Sells, “Supply Chain Council exists to help organizations expand their perspective of supply chains, understand how all of the components interact end-to-end, and continually improve processes. Fundamental to this endeavor is the training and education of the supply chain professional, which is key to the services the Council provides to our members. Sells continued, As an independent, nonprofit organization, the Council works internationally to help our members discover opportunities to improve supply chain performance, implement change, and understand how a supply chain functions effectively from the supplier's supplier to their customer's customer.

In addition to the officers, three new members were elected to the board for three-year terms:

• David Closs, Professor of Business Administration, Michigan State University;
• Brad Householder, Director, Supply Chain Management Practice, PRTM; and
• Don Weintritt, Global Director, Supply Chain Technology, Dow Chemical.

“We are grateful that David Closs, Brad Householder, and Don Weintritt have agreed to contribute their expertise and energy to the work of Supply Chain Council. They will join a stellar team of supply chain executives and authorities on the SCC board who are sharing their knowledge and experience to move our organization forward,” said Francis.

In addition the following SCC board members are returning to serve out their ongoing terms:

• Matt Davis, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner’s AMR Supply Chain Research;
• Nando Galazzo, Vice President of Procurement, Borealis Group;
• Maha Muzumdar, Vice President of Supply Chain Marketing, Oracle Corporation;
• Rocky Newman, Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Miami University of Ohio;
• Christian Verstraete, CTO, Manufacturing & Distribution Industries, Hewlett Packard; and
• Michael P. Wenzel, Director, Commodities Maintenance, U.S. Air Force.

ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN COUNCIL
Supply Chain Council (www.supply-chain.org, +1 202 962 0440) is a global nonprofit organization that helps member organizations make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. SCC maintains the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model, the supply chain management community's most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and performance.