Shelley Stewart Jr.
Shelley Stewart Jr. retired as the Chief Procurement Officer at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In that role he led procurement, global sourcing and logistics, as well as real estate and facility services, with a focus on delivering benefits through a strategic approach to supplier management and assuring efficient facility utilization and maximizing the real estate footprint. Shelley played a significant role in the DowDuPont merger by helping to deliver synergy savings and standing up two new organizations in support of spinning into three standalone world-class companies. Currently Shelley leads Bottom Line Advisory, LLC, a boutique consulting firm focused on procurement operational improvement.
From 2005 until joining DuPont in 2012, Shelley was Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence and Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco International, where his portfolio of responsibilities included oversight of supply chain, procurement, information technology, facilities, real estate, trade compliance, and lean six sigma initiatives company-wide. He joined Tyco in 2003, first as Vice President of Supply Chain Management. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Raytheon Company before accepting the position of Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Invensys PLC. He spent 19 years at United Technologies Corporation where he held positions of increasing responsibility, as Vice President of Procurement at Hamilton Standard and finally becoming Director of Worldwide Sourcing for the Corporation.
Shelley currently serves on the board of Kontoor Brands, where he is on the audit committee and nominating and governance. Shelley served on the board of directors of Cleco Corporation, a Louisiana-regulated utility for five years until the sale of the company in April 2016. Shelley currently serves in several capacities with Howard University. He is on the Board of Trustees for the University as well as chairing the board of visitors for the school of business where he founded the supply chain program. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Drexel University Center of Corporate Governance and a Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. In 2011, the United States Secretary of Commerce appointed Shelley to its National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprises. He spent several years serving on the board of directors for the Institute for Supply Management. He has received numerous leadership awards, including the first-ever Chief Procurement Officer of the Year award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Procurement Leaders Network. Black Enterprise and Savoy magazine named him one of the “100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America.” He received an honorary doctorate degree in Business Administration from the University of New Haven in May 2016. Shelley is the co-author of Straight to the Bottom Line: An Executive’s Roadmap to World Class Supply Management (J. Ross Publishing).
Shelley holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and received his MBA from the University of New Haven. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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