Joseph A. Yacura

Joseph A. Yacura has approximately 40 years of supply chain work experience. He has worked at various companies including, but not limited to, IBM, Bank of America, Pacific Bell, American Express, and Frannie Mae. In addition to his work experience, Mr. Yacura has researched, written, served as an editor, and presented extensively on data quality and governance topics, and has published over 60 articles in supply chain management professional magazines. He is the founder and CEO of Supply Chain Management, LLC, and the founder of a new education-focused organization, International Association of Data Quality, Governance and Analytics (https://www.iadqga.com/about-us).

Mr. Yacura’s strength has been in providing leadership and oversight in the creation and/or re-engineering of complex global businesses. Through extensive collaboration with internal business units and suppliers, he has been able to create scalable and sustainable cost savings, improved supplier quality/performance, mitigated third party risk, improved internal customer satisfaction and process efficiencies (end-to-end solutions). These solutions and innovations were designed to align with the overall business strategies to optimize total value through cross functional collaboration. He also has considerable experience in leading complex digitization of supply chains utilizing advanced analytics and data driven autonomous decision-making technology.