Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil is credited with bringing supply chain risk management into the mainstream. Vakil has helped transform the way that global organizations approach supply chain visibility and risk; driving them to shift from reactively addressing catastrophic supply chain events to putting preventative solutions in place through monitoring, mapping, and planning. She is a founding member of the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council and a member of the Advisory Board of MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.
Vakil holds a master’s degree in supply chain management from MIT and an MBA in Finance. She was Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2020 Woman of the Year and has appeared on nationally syndicated TV, radio and print media speaking on the topic of supply chain resiliency. She can be reached at: bindiya@resilinc.com
Supply chain disruptions are a fact of life. Over the last decade we’ve seen catastrophic earthquakes, flooding, nuclear disasters, and fires; all have blindsided supply chains. But it’s not all doom and gloom, especially if we learn from them. Covid-19 for example, vividly revealed the vulnerabilities baked into lean, cost-optimized supply chains. It also highlighted the…
