SCM - Key Persons


Akshay Hirdaramani

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director at Hirdaramani Group of Companies

Alex Traufftims

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director of Rights Lab, Nottingham University Business School

Alexander R Malaket

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • President, OPUS Advisory Services International Inc

Alok Malhotra

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director, Brandix Lanka Ltd

Amir Hossein Sadeghi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team
Amir is a Graduate Research Assistant in Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at North Carolina State University. He has been a Ph.D. student in industrial and system engineering at North Carolina State University since 2021. Sadeghi's research lies in the areas of systems analytics and optimization, and supply chain. He uses operations research, and machine learning to improve and maintain the logistic design. He is a volunteer member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He has also actively participated in various professional activities and conferences during his research. Sadeghi is the winner of the Lisa Zaken scholarship during his Ph.D. studies, this award is intended to recognize excellence in scholarly activities and leadership related to the industrial engineering profession.

Amirreza Sahebi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team

Anant Ahuja

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Head Organizational Development at Shahi Exports & CEO and Co - Founder at Good Business Lab

Andrew Olah

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director, Kingpins Tradeshows

Arun Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member

Avedis Seferian

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • CEO, WRAP

Balaji Soundararajan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team

Ben Mead

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Managing Director USA at Hohenstein Institute America

Chana Rosenthal

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Consultant, NYU Stern

Davide Luzzini

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director of Research, EADA Business School, Barcelona

Gilles Dana

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director, Product DNA
  • Product

Indunil Suranga

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Group Head Risk & Control, Brandix Lanka Ltd

Joanna Ewart-James

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Executive Director, Freedom United

Joe McGowan

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain, PVH Corporation

Lynsey Jones

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Transition Advisor and Executive Director, American Apparel Producers Network ( AAPN )

Marguerite Moore

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team
  • Professor, Wilson College of Textiles
Marguerite Moore currently serves as a Professor in the Wilson College of Textiles. Her research encompasses issues related to managing global supply chains for textiles and apparel with a focus on marketing strategy and novel research methods. Dr. Moore teaches undergraduate courses in supply chain management and marketing research related to textiles and apparel. She also teaches research design at the doctoral level and directs graduate research. Her publications are listed on Google Scholar.

Mark Anner

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Executive Director, Center for Global Workers' Rights, Pennsylvania State University

Mark Messura

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Senior Vice President of Marketing, Cotton Incorporated

Matthew Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • CEO, DXM Inc ( Ex - Executive Vice President, PVH Corporation )

Mevan Jayasinghe

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University

Miran Ali

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Managing Director, Tarasima Apparels Ltd., Manikganj, Bangladesh / Vice President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Mohammad Shamsul

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Senior Technical Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit ( GIZ ) GmbH

Natasha Boralessa

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Group Director, Brandix Lanka Ltd

Nate Hermann

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Senior Vice President, American Apparel & Footwear Association

Nelson Hall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Director ( SCRC ), Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management

Nikhil John Singh

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Phil Marsom

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Director of Factory Compliance, VF Corporation

Radhika Shri

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • VP of Strategy and Planning, Grey Matter Concepts

Robert Handfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team
  • Editor - in - Chief of MDPI 's Logistics
  • Executive Director of SCRC, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
  • Executive Director of SCRC, Bank of American University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
  • Executive Director of the SCRC
Robert Handfield, Ph.D., is the executive director of the SCRC and the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in NC State's Poole College of Management. Handfield is a consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management and has written several books on supply chain management, including "Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design." He has co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate programs include "Purchasing and Supply Chain Management" (with Robert Monczka) and "Operations and Supply Chain Management" (with Poole College of Management professor Cecil Bozarth). Indentified as one of a handful of professionals in the 2007 Pros to Know list complied by Supply and Demand Chain Executive journal, Handfield is regularly quoted in such periodicals as the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Supply Chain Management Review. Over the course of his career, Handfield has consulted with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Such experience has helped inform his ongoing research on the performance of companies with "best in class" supply chain management processes versus those whose supply chain practices are mediocre, which shows that best-in-class companies experience greater stockholder value and enjoy higher savings. Handfield joined the college in 1999 and received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1990. As of January, 2021, Handfield is editor-in-chief of MDPI's Logistics journal.

Robin Cornelia

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Product

Robin Cornelis

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • CEO, Product DNA

Tim Kraft

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Director ( SCRC ), Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Associate Research Director of SCRC, Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Tim Kraft's research examines environmental and social responsibility issues in supply chains. His research topics include investigating how supply chain transparency can influence consumers' and companies' decisions in social responsibility contexts, examining collaborative methods to motivate suppliers to improve their sustainability practices, and studying companies' and non-governmental organizations' decisions regarding environmental investment decisions. Tim's research has appeared in leading operations management journals such as Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. In 2020, he was named co-winner of the POMS Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability. For his teaching and case writing, Tim was named the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Member at the University of Virginia (Darden) and is a two-time winner of the INFORMS Case Competition. Tim previously taught at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also worked for several companies that include PricewaterhouseCoopers and RadioShack Corporation. He received his doctorate degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University and MBA in business management & mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Troy Pinkins

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative
Troy Pinkins is the director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. In this role, he leads and facilitates the identification, development, and execution of effective research and educational partnerships with companies, research organizations, corporate foundations, and government groups in areas including student recruitment; diversity, equity, inclusion and community; development and alumni affairs; and industry, government, and community relations. Troy works closely with business leaders across industries and sectors to understand the evolving market demand; and with university faculty, leadership, and staff to develop and deliver programs to address the demand.

Vincent Yu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Team

Yung-Yun Huang

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member