Leadership Spotlight: Randy Kesterson, SVP, Operations & Supply Chain, Cobham

We are thrilled to have Randy Kesterson join us at the American Supply Chain Summit, on April 9-10 in Dallas, TX. He will be delivering a plenary session on “How to Change an Organization: Addressing Failures and the Key to Lead Real Change,” in which he will explore why most supply chain transformations fail and what you can do about it, using examples from both failures and successes in his own career.

Randy is currently SVP, Operations and Supply Chain, at Cobham. Previously, Randy has held executive-level positions at Doosan Infracore, General Dynamics, and Curtiss-Wright, with prior successful experience at Harsco Corporation, John Deere, and at privately held Young & Franklin/Tactair Fluid Controls. He also worked as a management consultant to organizations such as Bank of America, Caterpillar, Motorola, Bank of Montreal, Ford Motor Company, Milliken & Company, RJ Reynolds, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Randy served as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business. He earned his Six Sigma Black Belt at North Carolina State University/IES. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Operations from Iowa State University and attended Syracuse University where he earned his MBA with a concentration in Operations Management.

In advance of the summit, we spoke to Randy about how organizations can achieve real change, what he has learned over the course of his career, why he became an author, and what advice he has for future supply chain leaders.

Click through below to read the interview.