David Steven Jacoby is a supply chain expert and educator, teaching graduate Operations Management and Supply Chain Management at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Tandon School of Engineering as well as the University of Pennsylvania‘s Wharton School of Business.  David is the Managing Director of Boston Strategies International, a strategy consulting firm that helps asset owners, investors and operators of major power and transport projects minimize supply chain cost, assure supply security, and maximize supply chain resilience.

Mr. Jacoby has contributed extensively to the field of supply chain management, having written eight books including Guide to Supply Chain Management for The Economist, Reinventing the Energy Value Chain for PennWell Books, Getting to Net Zero: Decarbonizing Businesses and Supply Chains, Retooling America for AI-Driven Supply Chains, and others. He holds an MBA and a Master of Arts from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a judge for MIT’s Capstone Thesis and the International Supply Chain Educational Association‘s (ISCEA) Prize for Supply Chain Excellence. He was previously a Senior Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and an global management consultant at Kearney and Oliver Wyman in the United States, France, Brazil, Hong Kong, and elsewhere.

David is passionate about building businesses that transform supply chains. Based on extensive management experience in energy, automotive, transport, and retail managing and advising executive leadership teams, he has deep and practical first-hand knowledge of what’s on the other end of your international supply chain. He holds supply chain certifications including C.P.M. CTL, CIRM, CFPM, CSCP, and AEE, and his academic and professional contributions to the field of supply chain management span hundreds of publications and media events. 

AI/IoT/Digital Transformation: Cisco, FICO, IRI, Microsoft, NEC, SAP, tech ventures/spin-offs, etc.

Auto/Transport/Mobility: BNSF, CSX, FedEx, Fiat, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, SNECMA, Volvo, VW, ZF, etc.

Power/Energy: Avangrid, Aramco, BP, Iberdrola, Raytheon, Siemens, Vattenfall, etc.

Telecommunications & Electrical Distribution: France Telecom, Schneider Electric, etc.

Industrial Manufacturers: Siemens, ThyssenKrupp, Cabot Corp., CBMM, Vale, Georgia Pacific, Minerals Technologies, Trumpf, ZF, etc.

Medical and Pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Charles River Laboratories, SpineFrontier, etc.

Retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers: Gillette, Sears, Galeries Lafayette, A.T. Cross, Rent-A-Center, etc.

Law Firms: Duane Morris, Kirkland & Ellis, Carmody & Torrance, etc.

Government Agencies: US Department of Transportation, the Mexican Agency for Ecology & Climate Change, the New York City Housing Authority, etc.

Investors: Credit Suisse, The World Bank, Bank of Montreal (BMO), etc.

Contract Solution Providers and EPCs: Raytheon, Wood Group, Iron Mountain, etc.

While based in Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Dammam, New York, and elsewhere, David has led teams in Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, and other countries.

Click here to listen to a podcast interview about David’s story, with Jim Zelem.

Click here to listen to a podcast interview “Decoding the Net Zero Backtrack: Insights from Game Theory,” with me, by Anita Kelava and VOIZ Academy.

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