Speaker 

John Rutherford, VP

Global Transportation,

DFS

Biography:

John Rutherford has a business operations, logistics, retail marketing and work-related teaching career that spans over four decades.  Entering retailing in the early days of discount mass marketing, John has experienced the evolution of mass and specialty retailing and logistics in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Asia and Europe.

Conducting marketing, sourcing, logistics teaching, and logistics and operations projects globally, while living in the U.S., China, and Mexico, has given John a broad perspective in business operations management worldwide.

During the past 15 years, he has focused on logistics business process improvement and waste recovery, developing and teaching techniques following the work of Dr. Deming, the guidelines of the Malcolm Baldrige award, ISO and QS 9000 in the auto industry and Motorola, as well as the six sigma quality program deployed by the General Electric corporation.

After 32 years with the Kmart Corporation, John has Joined DFS Group Limited in 1999 in Logistics.  In this capacity he has the responsibility to develop and direct global logistics for DFS and its vendor-partners.

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