Henry Whitlow has twenty five years of Operations and Financial Management experience, thirteen of which was with IBM where he held a variety of Supply Chain Management and Financial Management positions, including two controllerships and NE regional IT planning manager. While at IBM he was trained and certified as a Baldrige Examiner as part of the corporate quality staff. He continues his Baldrige work as a senior member of Georgia’s Quality Award Board of Examiners.

For the last twelve years he has played a double role as managing partner and co-founder of the Hudson Strategic Group (HsG) and visiting professor at the Clark Atlanta University School of Business (CAU).His role at HsG, beyond people and project management, he serves “Chief Methodologist”.

He has developed and published methodologies for implementing the Balanced Score Card, Six Sigma, ISO, Business Process Redesign, Business2Business Mentoring, Baldrige for Small Business, and others. The focus of the business in Building Organizations of Excellence through the profitable integration of the concepts of True Excellence into smaller businesses into their operations.

At CAU, in addition to his regular classes in the Decision Science department, he served as the founder and technical lead for the Supply Chain Management (SCM) business concentration in 2003. The SCM program was the first new degree program introduced at the university in the past twelve years. A highlight of the program is the extensive use of Fortune 500 senior leaders in the class room and the classroom use of SAP Enterprise Software to provide additional “real world” flavor.

Mr. Whitlow earned his MBA degree from Harvard University. He also earned a BA degreefrom North Carolina Central University in Business Administration (Finance).