Lew Roberts

Lew is President and founder of L. Roberts & Associates Inc., a USA based firm that provides a wide range of professional consulting and management development services, aimed at improving business performance, with an emphasis in the field of supply chain management. His consulting and management development career over the past 25 years has included working with Ryder, UPS, Menlo Worldwide, Exel, Owens Corning, Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific, SAPPI, Baxter, De Beers, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, and many other major firms worldwide.

Lew has been invited to speak at many conferences and universities, in his chosen field, including the Colorado School of Mines (at the invitation of Professor Gene Woolsey), Cleveland State University, the University of Toledo, the National University of Singapore, Macquarie University and the University of Pretoria. He has also lectured on the Executive Masters in International Logistics (EMIL) Program at The Georgia Institute of Technology. Lew is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, the leading business school in Africa, and one of the top 25 Business Schools in the world in Executive Education, where he teaches on the MBA program in Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Lew has developed and delivered courses for several major firms around the world in the field of strategic sourcing including for firms like UPS and Anglo American. In addition, Lew has written many articles on the subject of business performance improvement and supply chain management and is co-author of a recently published book titled “Managing Global Supply and Risk: Best Practices, Concepts and Strategies”.