Executive Team

Jerome Frederick is a pragmatic leader with a distinguished and diverse career in building Supply Chain alliances. Within the Supply Chain continuum, over the last 23 years, he has driven notable enterprise growth in the chemical manufacturing, medical distribution, and the residential construction materials distribution business. Jerome holds a MBA in Operations & Logistics from the Ohio State University.

Supply Chain Management

Though Jerome has tremendous experience and training in Supply Chain management, his expertise lies in his knowledge of inventory management systems. He has served in various capacities over the last 23 years.

• Global Supply Chain Programs manager at DuPont where he was responsible for $60 million in expenditure and operation costs within the supply chain network. He was the departmental spokesperson and consultant for inventory reduction and service levels enhancement.
• Global Customer Service Operations manager at DuPont where he was responsible for supporting global customer service and supply chain operations.
• Operations Manager at Physician Sales & Service where he was tasked with planning, staffing, and managing all areas of the supply chain with direct bonus incentives on inventory management.
• Operations Consultant with several companies, involved in re-engineering business processes to eliminate non-value added steps in the inventory management and delivery models.

Training and Diversity

While also at DuPont, Jerome spent 4 years in the capacity of Global Training and People Development Manager where he successfully developed and managed global training curricula for in-house professional development of 400 employees. He also designed, implemented and managed Reward and Recognition systems to encourage personal growth and employee participation in organizational improvement.

Jerome is truly a diverse person, having either worked, resided, or being schooled on 3 continents, 1 island and 14 states here in the US.

Jerome is also a certified “Competent Toastmaster”.

Kelly Shannon has over fifteen years experience in various aspects of the finance industry. He has core competencies in audit control, project analysis, systems implementation, P&L management, property valuation, financial planning and financial modeling.

His experience includes leading global teams for Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona as a Commodity Manager and Logistics Finance Manager; managing a Management Resource Group and serving as a Strategic Financial Analyst for Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, Michigan/Dayton, Ohio; and working for the County Commission, Montgomery, Alabama as a Valuation Analyst.

He holds a BS in Business Administration (Computer & Information Science) from Troy State University @ Montgomery. Also, he has a MSM in Finance & Strategic Management from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. He currently teaches Corporate Finance at the University of Phoenix.

Mr. Shannon sits on the Board of Directors for Omega Headstart Program (Arizona-based) and the Cornell A. Bell BOP Scholarship Fund (Indiana-based), both are non-profit organizations.

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