Neil Humphrey

As President of HAVI’s Supply Chain business unit, Neil provides strategic direction and oversight of HAVI’s global supply chain services, including supply chain management, analytics and logistics. These services are provided by more than 8,000 employees in approximately 50 countries globally. Neil joined HAVI in August 2017 and assumed the role of President, Logistics in January 2018.

Neil comes to HAVI from Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home care, personal care and refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. In his more than 30-year career with Unilever, Neil served in a variety of sales and supply chain operations and leadership roles, most recently as EVP Supply Chain Europe and Chairman, Unilever Supply Chain Company, where he had executive responsibility for the total supply chain for all Unilever businesses in Europe.

During his five years in this role, Neil led an end-to-end team responsible for the manufacturing, planning, logistics and customer service delivery for a 13-billion-euro European business. He established a new direction and vision, creating a truly business-driven supply chain, and drove significant innovation within the supply chain, such as the implementation of an operational “control tower” approach globally. Improvements made under his leadership played a key role in Unilever being named Gartner’s number one supply chain in the world in 2016.

Born in the U.K., Neil holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton.