Leadership Spotlight: Dan Key, SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Axalta Coating Systems

Dan Key is an accomplished senior executive with a 30-year track record in leading operations, supply chain, distribution, procurement, product management, and general management of global businesses. He is an expert in transforming, acquiring, growing, divesting, and repositioning assets throughout the world within both public and privately-owned companies. Dan is known for his approachable and inclusive style of leadership and he excels at rallying cross-functional teams around a unified vision. Over the course of his career, he has repeatedly contributed to EBITDA growth year-after-year through rigorous cost control and throughput improvements, leveraging deep experience in leading end-to-end supply chain and operations across 31 countries.

Dan is currently the Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer, at Axalta Coating Systems. Axalta is a $4B paint and coating company serving the transportation, refinish, and industrial markets. Dan manages 50 global sites with over 6,000 employees in 19 countries with an annual COGS spend of over $2B.

We are thrilled to have Dan join us at the American Supply Chain Summit, on April 9-10 in Dallas, TX. He will be delivering a plenary session on “Risk Management: Strategies to Safeguard Your Global Supply Chain” in which he will explore how to build an anticipatory supply chain and why risk management performance must be balanced.

In advance of the summit, we spoke to Dan about how he found himself in a supply chain role, how he motivates his team and his wisdom for the next generation of supply chain leaders.

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