Joe Cassin

Background

About Joe Cassin

Accomplished Supply Chain & Operations Executive Dynamic Supply Chain and Operations Executive with over 30 years of experience in building end-to-end supply chains for high-quality, cost-effective products. Skilled in strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and lifecycle management with a focus on innovative solutions to complex challenges. Proven track record in driving strategic relationships, process improvements, and global strategies, recognized with the 2022 Veritas CEO Award for ensuring continuity of supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. • Strategic Sourcing & Cost Focused and Optimization: Proven expertise in negotiating and managing contracts, mitigating tariffs and high-risk manufacturing country locations, and most of all, driving perpetual cost reduction strategies that significantly improved company profitability. Expertise with servers, expansion storage, HDDs, SSDs, CPUs, memory, and RAID controllers and much more. • End-to-End Operations & Lifecycle Management: Expert in managing all aspects of a product's supply chain, from initial hardware design and vendor selection to NPI execution, materials execution, quality standards adherence, and end-of-life (EOL) stages. • Strategic Supplier Management: Drove strategic relationships with key Far East, EMEA, and US OEM/ODM manufacturing partners and Service Providers, serving as the primary owner for performance metrics, including but not limited to cost, quality, technology and delivery/supply, and conducting regular Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to strengthen partnerships. • Process Improvement & Global Strategy: Built and institutionalized best-in-class supply chain processes, leveraging market intelligence and cross-functional collaboration to develop and execute long-range supply chain strategies. Expert in pushing for and managing a “Supplier Leveraged” model saving companies millions in resource investment and improving TTM and Quality.