Eileen Brown is an Associate Partner in IBM Global Business Services. She has held executive positions in supply chain management, M&As, IT, and manufacturing operations within the electronics services and manufacturing industries. Ms. Brown has led organizations through large-scale, global IT deployments and transformational change, from strategy development through implementation. When IBM Canada divested it’s manufacturing division to create Celestica, Inc., she was part of the small M&A team that completed 14 acquisitions in less than four years, growing the enterprise from two North American sites to more than 30 sites globally, making it an industry leader and contributing to Celestica being named the #1 IT company by BusinessWeek in 2001, outranking IBM, Microsoft, HP, and others. Ms. Brown then assumed the role of VP of Supply Chain Solutions and successfully integrated the newly acquired sites into Celestica’s corporate fabric. As the company continued to grow, her role was expanded to include IT applications, and she was responsible for the deployment and support of the suite of strategic applications that supported more than US $8 billion in revenue across 40 sites globally, including financial and enterprise resource planning (SAP), advanced planning, business intelligence and data warehousing (Oracle), engineering and product data, design collaboration, shop floor systems, and portal and B2B connectivity. Ms. Brown rejoined IBM in 2006. Her tenure at IBM and Celestica has made her an insightful advisor in the supply chain arena and for clients in the electronics and industrial sectors. She can be reached at eileen at ca.ibm.com.