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Verda A. BlytheDirector Verda is the director of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management at the Wisconsin School of Business. She is responsible for marketing the Center to prospective students and employers, developing the applied learning program, and providing academic and career guidance to undergraduate and MBA students. She works closely with the Center’s faculty and Executive Advisory Board on program strategy and leads outreach activities with alumni, employers, and professional associations. Verda has presented at various conferences about industry-educational partnerships in supply chain management, and she teaches two courses: Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management in the undergraduate curriculum and Ethical Leadership in the MBA curriculum. Verda brings thirteen years of supply chain industry experience to her position, having worked in procurement/sourcing, production, and logistics. After earning a BBA degree in logistics from Iowa State University, she worked for Ruan Transportation Management Systems in roles including quality, planning, and customer development. In 2002, she graduated with an MS degree in supply chain management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a Grainger Center alumna. Her summer internship during graduate school was in logistics and materials management at Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Upon graduation, she joined IBM’s integrated supply chain, where she worked in global procurement and the systems and software group, both domestically and abroad. |
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