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IBM Supply Chain Exec to Speak at Smeal

Frances O'Sullivan, general manager of Integrated Supply Chain for IBM, is scheduled to deliver this year's Spisak Lecture in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Her talk, entitled "Reinventing the Modern Corporation: A Focus on Integrated Supply Chain," is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. on November 10 in room 126 of Smeal's Business Building. It's free and open to the public.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (November 8, 2011) – Frances O'Sullivan, general manager of Integrated Supply Chain for IBM, is scheduled to discuss the role of supply chains in today's corporations at this year's Spisak Lecture in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business.

O'Sullivan's talk, entitled "Reinventing the Modern Corporation: A Focus on Integrated Supply Chain," is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. on November 10 in room 126 of Smeal's Business Building. The talk is free and open to the public.

O'Sullivan has been with IBM for 24 years and has worldwide responsibility for the company's customer fulfillment, supply chain, procurement manufacturing, and distribution. She began her career with IBM with an assignment to NASA's Space Shuttle Program at Cape Kennedy, Fla. She then transferred to IBM's PC Division and gained engineering and management expertise in development, manufacturing, procurement, and business operations. Her long association with the PC Division includes positions as general management of the ThinkPad worldwide business unit and vice president of ThinkPad worldwide development.

O'Sullivan holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, where she serves on the university's Engineering Industry Advisory Board. She also serves on the board of directors for the North Carolina Technology Association, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and North Carolina Coastal Pines Girl Scouts.

The Spisak Lectureship was founded in 1990 through a gift from the Alex and Ann Spisak family of State College. The fund supports lectures by outstanding professionals working in logistics and supply chain management.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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