Bennett has spent his career in sales, operations, and supply chain roles both in consulting and private equity. Bennett has been an operations partner at both Deloitte and EY focusing on manufacturing, operations improvement and supply chain. Bennett finished at EY as the practice leader for the Midwest Supply Chain practice, responsible for all sales and delivery. While in private equity Bennett served as an operating partner holding various operations roles within the portfolio companies including COO for a global Tier 1 automotive supplier, VP of Operations for a large industrial products manufacturer and VP of Supply Chain for a North American industrial and consumer products manufacturer. During his private equity tenure, he has worked with many entrepreneurs to improve operations in anticipation of a due diligence review and sale to PE firms.
BA Economics - University of Illinois
MBA Operations - The Ohio State University
Certified Purchasing Manager
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