SHELLEY STEWART, JR.

Shelley Stewart, Jr. is Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence and Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco, where he leads Tyco’s Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, working capital, real estate and strategic sourcing initiatives across the company. Shelley is responsible for 20 billion dollars in procurement spend and leads cross divisional teams in an effort to reduce cost and increase efficiency throughout Tyco.  Prior to joining Tyco Shelley was Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Invensys plc, headquartered in London.  In this position, Mr. Stewart provided leadership for the strategic sourcing of $4.6 billion as well as having overall responsibility for lean operational excellence.  Before Invensys, Shelley was Vice President of Supply Chain Management with the Raytheon Company, joining them after 18 years with United Technologies Corporation, where he held numerous senior level supply chain and operational positions. 

Mr. Stewart sits on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and is currently a member of the Conference Board’s Purchasing and Supply Leadership Council, the visiting Board of Directors at Howard University’s School of Business and is Chairman of Howard’s Supply Chain Advisory Board as well as a member of Purchasing Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board.  Locally, Shelley is an active participant of the Board of Directors for The Boys and Girls Club of Trenton/Mercer County.

Shelley holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of New Haven and both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University.

Most recently, Mr. Stewart co-authored “Straight To The BottomLine™:  An Executive’s Roadmap to World Class Supply Management,” (J.Ross Publishing).