With international supply chains embedded in the fabric of many industries, the ability to craft competitive business strategies requires extensive trade and tariff knowledge as well as a fundamental understanding of how to adapt international supply chains in a dynamic environment.
Stephen Gould is a Kearney alum who brings unique hands-on international supply chain knowledge and experience to bear on his clients’ behalf.
Stephen has over four decades of professional experience including significant entrepreneurial, executive leadership, consulting and educational accomplishments in the automotive, beverage, telecom, aerospace and defense industries. He is also a licensed US Customs Broker.
He has worked in or with more than 33 countries in Asia, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe and has negotiated trade issues with the governments of 13 different countries.
As a supply chain practitioner, he has held roles in several major corporations, including the better part of a decade at Ford Motor Company. With Ford in Asia, he was functionally responsible for Ford’s entire Asia-centric supply chain (except finished vehicles). This responsibility included establishing the first regional Asia Pacific supply chain organization in Ford’s history.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded multiple companies, including:
Gould & Associates Global Services (Gould Global) – an integrated logistics, supply chain and related management consulting and government operations support. The company’s clients included Lucent Technologies, Oshkosh Corp, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems of America, SAIC, and Leidos among others. The company also provided services to various US, UK and Taiwan (ROC) government entities.
Golden Moon Distillery, an award-winning distillery that also provided distilled spirits production and supply chain consulting services to companies in the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Consulting Alchemist Ltd., a supply chain and international operations consulting firm currently providing support to the alcohol beverage industry, defense/aerospace industry and others.
Mr. Gould holds an MBA specialized in International Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a graduate of National Intelligence University’s Post Graduate Intelligence Program.
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