Corey Billington is Professor of Operations Management and Procurement at IMD.

His areas of special interest are:
• Supply chain innovation
• Procurement practices

A pioneer and leader in supply chain innovation and procurement practices, Professor Billington was Vice President of Supply Chain Services at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where he managed procurement and central engineering. Among his previous roles, he was Executive Director of Strategic Planning and Modelling, serving as a key pioneer of HP’s approach to supply chain management. In addition, Corey Billington also managed a design company with clients in consumer goods, high tech and services. He was a consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering in the department of Management and Engineering.

At HP, Professor Billington was Vice President of Supply Chain Services guiding a team of 1400 professionals with expertise in procurement, engineering, tax design and cost management. The group focuses on improving supply chain performance by furnishing access to a global supply base, innovating e-procurement tools and processes, developing strategic tax models and providing supplier audit and management services.

Before that he was executive director of Strategic Planning and Modeling for HP, serving as a key pioneer of HP’s approach to supply chain management. Prior to his tenure at HP, he executed strategic planning for Raychem and IBM and project management for a chemical engineering firm, working in Rome and London.

Corey Billington's interest in supply chain management began in the early 1980s during research toward his PhD in industrial engineering and engineering management at Stanford University. Before the term “supply chain’” become common vocabulary, he was inventing techniques for supply chain improvement and predicting the widespread trend toward increasing profit margins through effective supply chain management.