Ted Rybeck

Ted Rybeck has led Benchmarking Partners since founding the firm in 1994. Drawing from his value chain experience on five continents, Rybeck has become a leading innovator of demand and supply chain integration and collaboration systems. In addition to his managerial responsibilities, he consults and teaches on applying information systems for competitive advantage.

Rybeck is best known for spearheading Wal-Mart's successful Internet-based collaboration system with its trading partners--a system that evolved into the first major standard for business-to-business Internet commerce. In conjunction with the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, he chairs the Security Best Practices Committee of international leaders from the public and private sector under the auspices of the National Defense Transportation Association.

Rybeck has annually taught a semester-long graduate course on Value Networks and Championship Mobilization at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. The course, which he co-created, is based on best practices developed and presented in conjunction with Benchmarking Partners clients and staff. Previously, Rybeck co-taught the Value Networks and Championship Mobilization course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.

Rybeck's honors include a Kittredge Award for his analysis of the relationship between technology, company organization, and return-on-investment; a Thomas Watson Foundation Fellowship during which Rybeck, based at IBM-Düsseldorf, worked with leading European and Asian corporations to analyze their systems needs; and an appointment by the non-partisan U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to its review panel on electronic commerce and the Internet.

At Benchmarking Partners, Rybeck has supported supply and demand chain initiatives for more than 700 multinational manufacturers, distributors, retailers, government organizations, utilities, healthcare institutions, financial services firms, and technology providers. The results of these initiatives have been synthesized into Benchmarking Partners' Customer-Oriented Management System (COMS) knowledgebank of best practices and metrics, which Rybeck helped to establish in 1994.

Rybeck has a BA in economics from Haverford College. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.