Global Supply Chain Leaders Group

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gene Tyndall is currently President of Supply Chain Executive Advisors, LLC, (SCEA), a global firm comprised of senior executives who provide strategic advice and management counsel to senior business and public officials around the world. Gene is a globally experienced and recognized management consulting and business executive, having advised over 100 corporations in over 40 countries. He has co-authored four books (including SUPERCHARGING SUPPLY CHAINS); written dozens of articles; and is frequently quoted in business and industry media. He is a frequent seminar/conference chairperson, speaker, moderator, and panelist around the world. He is a Director on Public and Private Boards.

Prior to founding SCEA, Gene was Executive Vice-President at Ryder System, Inc., a FORTUNE 500 global corporation based in Miami, FL. He was also President of the company's Global Logistics Division, a $1.8Billion Business Unit providing logistics services for over 400 client companies around the world. In addition to leading substantial improvements in profitability and shareholder value, he helped lead the corporation's strategic planning process; transformed its business processes and operations; and initiated new technologies, programs for change management and knowledge management, and a new product development process.

Prior to joining Ryder, Gene was a Senior Partner and Leader of the Ernst & Young Global Supply Chain Management Consulting Practice, growing the business to over $1Billion annually. He advised and led business transformations for over 100 well-known global corporations during his consulting career - across several industries including High-Tech, Consumer Electronics, Health Care, Energy, Consumer Products/Retail, Transportation/Logistics, and Automotive. Examples of these global clients include: P&G; Coca-Cola; 3M; Becton Dickinson; Kellogg's; Dell; HP; Black & Decker; Cisco; Samsung; Philips; Ford; GM; Toyota; Harley-Davidson; VW; J&J; Eli Lilly; Xerox; Georgia Pacific; DHL/Exel Logistics; several International Airlines; and dozens of others. Many of the Supply Chain and Logistics practices, processes, and technologies in place in global businesses today are due to his contributions. He has resided in 4 countries and worked in over 40 nations. He also was a member of the firm's Strategic Planning Team, as well as a designer and lead facilitator with the firm's Accelerated Solutions Center (ASE).

Gene was a U.S. Navy Officer, serving globally on an aircraft carrier and at the Pentagon. He graduated from the University of Maryland; The George Washington University; the Institute of Management Development in Switzerland; and several executive training programs at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Miami.

Gene was recently awarded the "Global Logistics Person of 2007" by the Global Institute
of Logistics, which also voted him into the Global Logistics Hall of Fame.

He was named one of the "Top Ten Innovators for 2002" by Information Week magazine. He has won several awards as a Keynote Speaker, Group Facilitator, and Conference Chairman.