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Mr. Heaton is one of the founding principals of JVKellyGroup and has been with the firm since 2002. In his role as Chief Engagement Officer, Mr. Heaton is responsible for strategy and oversight of all of JVKellyGroup’s client engagements
Mr. Heaton has over thirty years experience in strategic sourcing, running the gamut from purchasing cost analysis, lead negotiator on major contracts, and senior management of large corporate purchasing organizations. Prior to JVKellyGroup, Mr. Heaton held positions as managing director at Deutsche Bank, where he had global purchasing responsibility for the bank’s private client division and UK purchasing operations, and vice president at Citibank with responsibilities including benchmarking, quality assurance and US purchasing operations. He also spent a number of years at NYNEX (now Verizon) as a purchasing cost analyst/negotiation specialist.
Mr. Heaton is a regular lecturer for the National Association of Purchasing Management New York and has been an adjunct professor of business at Long Island University and at SUNY Stony Brook. He also leads corporate seminars for JVKellyGroup on strategic sourcing topics of interest.
Mr. Heaton has a BBA in marketing from Pace University and an MBA in management from C.W. Post College. |