Robert Handfield, Ph.D.

Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu/). Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management, and is an industry expert in the field of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development.

Paige Wolf, Ph.D., SPHR

Paige P.

Paige Wolf, Ph.D., SPHR

Paige P. Wolf has over 16 years of experience as an internal and external consultant on strategic human resource initiatives and maintains an active consulting practice through her own company, Performance Matters, LLC. Her work with both private and public sector clients has focused on improving human potential and effectiveness at work and included projects involving team building; organizational development; competency modeling; performance management, employee selection systems; career planning; employee training and development; leadership assessment; and human resource audits. Dr.

Richard R. Young, Ph.D., C.P.M.

Richard R. Young is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the School of Business Administration and Director of the M.B.A. Program at the Capital College of The Pennsylvania State University. For the past 15 years, he has facilitated the import processes benchmarking consortium for Penn State’s Center for Supply Chain Research. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Young headed procurement at the Sprague Electric Company and the Life Sciences Group at American Hoechst Corporation, and was director of international distribution for the Industrial Chemicals Group of Hoechst Celanese.

Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
North Carolina State University
Department of Business Management
College of Management
Raleigh, NC 27695
United States
(919) 515-4674

Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu/). Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management, and is an industry expert in the field of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. He has spoken on these subjects across the globe, including China, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Latin America, India, Europe, Korea, Japan, Canada, in multiple presentations and webinars. Handfield has published more than 120 peer reviewed journal articles and is regularly quoted in global news media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Washington Post, the Financial Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and CNN. He served on the Joint Acquisition Task Force during COVID which led to published articles on the shortages of PPE in the Harvard Business Review and the Milbank Quarterly Journal, and led a NIIMBL research team studying distribution of test kits during the pandemic. He was also invited to serve on the Biden White House Counsel of Economic Advisors in January 2022, and has worked with many companies through the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative for several years.