RateLinx Leadership

World-class Supply Chain leader who drives revenue, profit and corporate value through efficient and innovative supply chain, procurement and logistics strategies. A highly collaborative, yet decisive leader with deep expertise in global manufacturing businesses, having been responsible for more than $5B of spend in support of $12B in revenue. Adept at applying best practices, tools and processes to capture new markets and customers and outperform competitors. Agility, keen business insight, deep subject matter expertise and exceptional interpersonal skills combine to create results in key performance areas.• Strategic Sourcing - Using my custom developed approach, “Six Foundations of World Class Procurement” achieved rapid and sustainable sourcing advantage, saving $210M at Masco and $250M at Rank Group.• Expertise across End-to-End Supply Chain - Mobilized a cross-company, rapid-response team from S&OP, sales, operations, procurement, logistics and global suppliers to mitigate the impact of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction of over 40% of GEC’s resin supply base. • Business Stabilization and Turnaround - Improved all financial and operational metrics, moving the business unit’s performance from worst to upper quartile at Flint Group, averaging a 21% EBITDA improvement.• Deployment of Strategy through Consensus - Gained buy-in from disparate stakeholders for a unified vision, leading to implementation of single TMS across the company, and saving $53M, at Masco.• Mergers and Acquisitions - Supply Chain Executive responsible for merger of Graham Pkg, Evergreen Pkg and Closure Systems. Levered my experience from Vertis/American Color merger to rapidly drive integration and create immediate and sustainable savings of over $200M; ten times the anticipated benefit.CORE COMPETENCIES• Multi-plant Global Supply Chain Strategy• Operational Leadership with P&L• Mergers and Acquisitions• Strategic Sourcing and Contract Negotiation• Finance and Budgeting• Business Transformation and Turnaround• Logistics, Warehousing and Distribution• Network and Supply Chain Management• Inventory Optimization and S&OP• Talent Management