Kevin (Kuo-huang) Chen

VP Global Supply Chain at OSOM

Kevin (Kuo-huang) Chen has a wealth of experience in Supply Chain and Operations roles. Starting in 2020, they served as VP Global Supply Chain, Operations/ Supply Chain Advisor, and Director of NPI and Supply Chain at OSOM Products Inc. Kevin (Kuo-huang) also served as Sr. Principal Ops Manager, New Initiatives at Palo Alto Networks. From 2016-2020, they were Head of Commodity Management at Essential Products, where they managed all commodities for Essential's Smartphones from evaluation to qualification and SOW/ contract negotiation of NREs and lead-time optimization. From 2014-2016, they were Sr. Global Commodity Manager at Trimble, where they managed global OEM direct electrical commodities. From 2013-2014, they were Manager WW Supply Chain Team/ Sr. NPI Manager at Echelon, where they managed WW supply chain team and represented within core project teams. Finally, from 2011-2013, they were Director of Supply Chain at Intelleflex Corporation, where they developed Intelleflex's preferred supply base and created costing and material planning model for Intelleflex's RFID tag and reader product line.

Kevin (Kuo-huang) Chen has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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Timeline

  • VP Global Supply Chain

    May, 2021 - present

  • Operations/ Supply Chain Advisor

    October, 2020

  • Director of NPI and Supply Chain

    June, 2020