Kwame Adu-Bonnah

Kwame joins the center with advanced degree in engineering and with seven years of cross-cultural industry experience with progressive management roles. After graduating with a mechanical engineering degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology in Ghana, Kwame worked for about two and a half years in Ghana before coming to the United States to earn a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduation, Kwame joined Chemdesign Corporation as maintenance manager in charge of maintenance operations for four production plants and the associated auxiliary buildings. He managed the maintenance personnel, maintenance service contracts, and quipment spare parts, and he planned scheduled and controlled maintenance jobs. Kwame also worked on cross-functional teams, including quality control, process hazard assessment, and safety teams. His next role was principal project manager with additional multiple concurrent project management responsibilities and more personnel reports. Kwame negotiated, ordered, and tracked capital equipment while working closely with the purchasing department; managed the $2 million maintenance and engineering operations budget with reporting responsibilities to upper management; worked in several cross-functional teams; served as engineering liaison between Chemdesign and its clients; and negotiated and managed several service contracts and jobs. In December 2006, Kwame was selected to work with the upper management team at Chemdesign that developed its performance matrices and carved a new culture for the company.

Kwame is interested in global strategic sourcing and contracts negotiations and optimization of supply chain operations. He joined the Grainger Center because he believes that the curriculum will truly prepare him to “Be Out in Front” as he prepares himself into a star supply chain executive.