Smeal Center for Supply Chain Research Names New Executive Director
The Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business has named Steve Tracey it’s next executive director. As the executive director, Tracy will serve as a representative and spokesman for the supply chain program at Smeal and will help guide the strategy for the center. Tracey will assume his new post on August 1, 2014.
Tracey is currently the senior vice president of global supply chain at Standard Textile Company, Inc. Standard Textile Company Inc. is the largest institutional textiles manufacturer in the world. Tracey previously held leadership roles at American Tool Companies, Inc., a company that produces power tool and hand tool accessories. Tracey earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Penn State, and he received an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Tracey has nearly three decades of industry experience in supply chain management that he brings to his new position at Smeal.
The John and Becky Surma Dean of Smeal, Charles H. Whiteman, stated “We’re very much looking forward to Steve joining us in August. His several decades of industry experience and deep understanding of the supply chain field position him well to lead this partnership between academia and industry.”
The current director of the Center for Supply Chain Research, Skip Grenoble, will retire in the summer of 2014. He has been part of the supply chain management team at Smeal since 1987. During his time as director, the Center For Supply Chain Research expanded to include fifty companies as members, and the center pursued several initiatives to support undergraduate, graduate, and executive supply chain education.
