Supply Chain Customer Service

Curtis Greve

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City: Pittsburgh

State: PA

Zip: 15238

Country: USA

Phone: 412-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $150,000

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Curtis Greve

Contact Information:

204 Pine Cone Court 412-***-****

Wexford PA 15090 abp68w@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Curtis Greve, formerly Principal at Greve-Davis, is a recognized leader in supply chain management, asset liquidation and reverse logistics. Prior to starting Greve-Davis in 2008, Curtis worked for Genco Distribution System for 15 years where he was responsible for all reverse logistics services, including operations, systems, and customer relations. Before joining Genco, Curtis worked for Walmart Stores for 12 years, the last four of which he was responsible for Walmarts reverse logistics division.

For over 25 years Curtis has worked with Fortune 500 companies around the world helping them develop liquidation programs and reverse logistics capabilities. His experience includes working with hi-tech manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, third party service providers, retailers, wholesale distributors and global liquidators to develop and improve their capabilities.

Experience

Oct 2011 Nov 2012 Taylor and Martin Group Pittsburgh PA

CEO Reverse Logistics

Worked on rolling together five auction and liquidation companies to form one company and participate in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

Participated in conducting due diligence on 34 companies.

Was a key negotiator in completing agreements with four companies that were involved in the initial public offering.

Was a main participant in writing and filing the S1

Was a presenter on the IPO roadshow, making presentations to over 87 institutional investors.

Unfortunately, the IPO did not price because of timing related to Hurricane Sandy, the election, a 300 point drop in the Dow, and the snow storm that followed.

2008 - 2011 Greve-Davis Pittsburgh PA

Principal and Managing Partner - Greve-Davis

Specialist in all aspects of reverse logistics

Provides reverse logistics systems design and implementation

Develops liquidation infrastructure and programs

Improves returned asset recovery rates

Provides processing and operations benchmarking, and best practices

Develops specialty services such as repair, refurbishment, and recall processes

Extensive experience in 3PL selection, contract negotiation, and all aspects of outsourcing

Works with organizations to design customer return policies and product return agreements

Wrote An Executives Guide to Reverse Logistics How to Find Hidden Profits by Managing Returns, which is the leading book on reverse logistics on Amazon.com,

1994 2008 Genco Pittsburgh PA

President

Averaged 15%+ annual growth. He served in a number of leadership roles and was personally responsible for customer relationships, warehouse operations, facility startups, sales, marketing, systems, human resources and various support departments, as Genco grew from $34 million to $820+ million in annual sales.

From 2005 through 2008 he was directly responsible for the three reverse logistics business units, serving over 100 customers in five countries.

Participated in four acquisitions, including due diligence, negotiations and integration.

Responsible for business development and business start up activities for Genco Canada, Genco UK and Genco India.

Board Member of Supply Chain Management Board of Directors at the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas.

Developed the pharmaceutical recall process that won a 35% market share in two years.

19831994 Wal-Mart Stores Bentonville AR

VP of Reverse Logistics

Responsible for Wal-Marts entire reverse supply chain with an annual budget of $1.2 billion.

Reduced expenses ratios from 4.0 % to 1.6% of sales with in two years

Purchased and installed the reverse logistics software system used today in 12 facilities in three countries

Worked with Merchandising Teams to develop reverse logistic contract language

Worked with Store Operations to develop store customer service and back room return processes

Developed store training materials to improve efficiencies and inventory controls throughout the reverse supply chain.

Responsible for designing the current reverse logistics network, incentive program, process flow and warehouse software used today in North America.

Significant Third Party Logistics Accomplishments

One of two members of Gencos Senior Staff that lead the company for fifteen years, during which revenues grew from $34 million in 1994 to $820 million in 2008.

Negotiated over fifty third party contracts that ranged in value from $3 million to $45 million in annual revenue

Lead all reverse logistics businesses and was primarily responsible for establishing Genco as the global leader in reverse logistics.

Primary designer of R-Log software that is viewed as the best in class reverse logistics software application, worldwide and used in 5 different countries.

Lead acquisition, integration and management of Pharmaceutical 3PL that increased gross margins 10%, with an increase in profitability of 98% in the first full year after integration.

Personally recruited eleven executive leaders into Genco during my first three years with Genco. These executives were the leadership foundation that enabled Genco to achieve its success.

Personally closed over 30 multi-million dollar deals worth over $250 million in revenue to Genco per year.

Developed a significant reverse logistics business in the UK, the cornerstone of which is a partnership agreement with Wincanton

Redesigned the Marketing program that resulted in a growth of over 200% in leads generated over two years. for the three years I was responsible for Marketing, Genco had record sales every year.

Speaking

Recognized as a industry expert and regularly speaks at major conferences and events. Have made presentations at the Reverse Logistics Association, Interlog, Consumer Returns, RELA, WERK, CSCMP and many other events throughout North America and Europe.

Publications

An Executives Guide to Reverse Logistics How to find hidden profits by managing returns by Curtis Greve and Jerry Davis, published March 2012. Found on Amazon.com.

Articles published in numerous industry magazines and have been quoted in articles appearing in the New York Times, Business Week, Canadian Globe and Mail, Logistique, the Financial Times and numerous other publications.

Industry Affiliations

Reverse Logistics Association

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

Consumer Electronics Association

Education

BS - Accounting from Arkansas Tech University

CPA

Harvard Executive School

Columbia Executive School

Six Sigma Green Belt

204 Pine Cone Court, Wexford, PA 15090 T-412-***-**** abp68w@r.postjobfree.com GreveDavis.com

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