Kevin O'Marah directs SCM World’s practitioner-driven supply chain content and research, leveraging the combined experience and insight of over 19,000 practitioners within SCM World’s membership. He holds specific responsibility for content relating to sales & operations planning, customer centricity and demand management, digital demand and omnichannel. He also co-chairs the SCM World Executive Advisory Board with Dr Hau Lee.
As a research fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kevin helps to shape the direction of supply chain teaching for the next generation of business leaders. Prior to SCM World, he served as Group Vice President for Supply Chain at Gartner following the 2009 acquisition of AMR Research, where he was Chief Strategy Officer. In his 10-year career at AMR, he created the Supply Chain Top 25, wrote over 400 published articles and reports and led a six-year dialogue with business leaders such as Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Michael Eisner and T. Boone Pickens.
Kevin is based in Boston and travels to London frequently. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Boston College, a Master of Science in Industrial Relations from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University.