Don’t miss this chance to meet with top uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sors at EDS!

We are proud to wel­come these dis­tin­guished uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sors to the 2026 EDS Lead­er­ship Sum­mit. Please join us in welcoming:

• Gre­go­ry Collins – Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty
  Sup­ply Chain and Oper­a­tions Strategy
• Daniel Rey – Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty
  Engi­neer­ing Tech­nol­o­gy and Indus­tri­al Distribution
• Sri­ram Narayanan – Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty
  Sup­ply Chain Management
• Lau­ra Genik – Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty
  Applied Engi­neer­ing Sciences

These respect­ed edu­ca­tors and researchers are shap­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of tal­ent in our indus­try, and they’re here to con­nect with you.

Con­tact info@​edssummit.​com if you are inter­est­ed in sched­ul­ing a meet­ing with them in their booth, or your meet­ing space, to dis­cuss trends in edu­ca­tion, stu­dent recruit­ment, intern­ship pro­grams and the future of the sup­ply chain, engi­neer­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion workforce.

Don’t miss this oppor­tu­ni­ty to build rela­tion­ships with top aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grams and gain insight into how tomorrow’s lead­ers are being trained today.

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Gregory Collins

Ari­zona State University

Sup­ply Chain and Oper­a­tions Strat­e­gy
 

Gre­go­ry Collins is an Indus­tri­al Sinol­o­gist and glob­al sup­ply chain expert with more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence across Chi­na and the Asia-Pacif­ic region. He has held senior lead­er­ship roles at Microsoft, Flex, and Ger­ber Tech­nol­o­gy, and is the founder and Chief Sup­ply Chain Offi­cer of The Lake­line Group, a Shang­hai-based firm spe­cial­iz­ing in reshoring, nearshoring, and sup­ply chain strategy.

A pio­neer in China’s sup­ply chain devel­op­ment, he has worked with orga­ni­za­tions in over 30 coun­tries and is flu­ent in Man­darin. His con­tri­bu­tions have been rec­og­nized with hon­ors includ­ing the Key to Shang­hai and recog­ni­tion from Chi­nese leadership.

He cur­rent­ly teach­es sup­ply chain and oper­a­tions man­age­ment at Ari­zona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Busi­ness, where he also leads grad­u­ate con­sult­ing projects with major glob­al companies.

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Daniel Rey

Texas A&M University

Engi­neer­ing Tech­nol­o­gy and Indus­tri­al Dis­tri­b­u­tion 
 

A grad­u­ate of Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in Indus­tri­al Dis­tri­b­u­tion, Dan­ny brings over 30 years of expe­ri­ence across the elec­tri­cal and chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion indus­tries. His career spans key lead­er­ship roles in sales, mar­ket­ing, and oper­a­tional man­age­ment, cul­mi­nat­ing in his posi­tion as Senior Vice Pres­i­dent at Nal­co, where he over­saw glob­al prof­it and loss per­for­mance with­in the Refin­ing Chem­i­cals divi­sion.

In 2020, he tran­si­tioned into acad­e­mia, return­ing to Texas A&M to begin a sec­ond career in teach­ing. He teach­es in the Mas­ters of Indus­tri­al Dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram and cur­rent­ly leads the Indus­tri­al Dis­tri­b­u­tion cap­stone pro­gram, where he part­ners with indus­try orga­ni­za­tions to pro­vide stu­dents with real-world, hands-on prob­lem-solv­ing expe­ri­ences that bridge the gap between aca­d­e­m­ic the­o­ry and prac­ti­cal application.

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Sriram Narayanan

Michi­gan State University

Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment
 

Sri­ram Narayanan is the Eli Broad Endowed Pro­fes­sor of Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment at Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty and serves as Fac­ul­ty Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Eth­i­cal and Social­ly Respon­si­ble Lead­er­ship. He earned his PhD from the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na at Chapel Hill and focus­es his research on inno­va­tion, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and inclu­sion in sup­ply chains.

His work is high­ly inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and ground­ed in real-world indus­try appli­ca­tions, with more than 30 pub­li­ca­tions in lead­ing jour­nals such as Man­age­ment Sci­ence, Jour­nal of Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment, and Strate­gic Man­age­ment Jour­nal. He has received mul­ti­ple awards for research, teach­ing, and com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment, and serves in edi­to­r­i­al roles across sev­er­al top-tier journals.

Pri­or to acad­e­mia, Sri­ram held roles in pro­cure­ment and project lead­er­ship at Maru­ti Suzu­ki and HCL Technologies.

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Laura Genik

Michi­gan State University

Applied Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences
 

Dr. Genik, has been the of Direc­tor Applied Engi­neer­ing Sci­ences since Jan­u­ary 2015. Pri­or to that time, she taught in the CoRe pro­gram at MSU and the ME Depart­ment. She began her aca­d­e­m­ic career at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Port­land in Port­land, Ore­gon, and served as vis­it­ing fac­ul­ty at Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty before com­ing to Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty in Jan­u­ary 2007. Her schol­ar­ly research empha­sizes engi­neer­ing ped­a­gogy. Dr. Genik has been rec­og­nized at each insti­tu­tion she has taught at with Out­stand­ing Teach­ing nom­i­na­tions and awards, includ­ing the With­row Teach­ing Award at MSU from the Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Depart­ment in 2012. Dr. Genik was nom­i­nat­ed and select­ed to attend the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Engi­neer­ing (NAE) Fron­tiers of Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion (FOEE) sym­po­sium for inno­v­a­tive, young engi­neer­ing edu­ca­tors in 2014.

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