Kevin joined Amazon in 2018 as a Director building communities for partners in the Amazon ecosystem (retail suppliers, delivery providers, and others). The purpose is to improve adoption of operations technology by these groups and to develop better collaborative programs within Amazon’s consumer supply chain.
Prior to Amazon Kevin headed up research and content for SCM World, a London based community of C-Level supply chain executives, which was acquired by Gartner in 2016. Before that he led AMR Research’s supply chain coverage and created the Supply Chain Top 25 as well as Gartner’s Supply Chain University rankings. AMR was also acquired by Gartner (in 2010) where Kevin then served as Group Vice President leading the supply chain business. Kevin was a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford Business School from 2011-2015 and a Distinguished Fellow with the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee since 2015.
Kevin has a B.A. in economics from Boston College, an M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University.