November 09, 2012 at 7:00AM - November 09, 2012 at 8:00AM
Location: 35-225
Sloan Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A light lunch will be served.
Tom Linton
Chief Procurement Officer, Flextronics
Topic: Supply Chains: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
Time: Friday, November 9, 12:00 to 1:00pm. Lunch to be served shortly before noon.
Bio:
Tom Linton is the chief procurement officer for Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), a $30B, industry-leading, Fortune Global 500 electronics manufacturing services provider with more than 200,000 employees and operations in 30 countries. In the beginning of his career, Mr. Linton spent 20 years at IBM, developing and founding several world-wide Trading and Technical Centers. After leaving IBM, Mr. Linton helped found E2Open, Inc., a supply chain software company. Mr. Linton has also served as chief procurement officer of Agere Systems, Freescale Semiconductor and he most recently held the title of executive vice president and chief procurement officer at LG Electronics. Mr. Linton is a graduate of the University of Vermont, and has completed executive education programs at the University of Virginia, which is one of the 12 institutions of higher learning where he serves as a guest lecturer.
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