David Cho
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
“ We are now closer to being a datafirst organisation ”
DAVID CHO CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR , UMASS
David Cho
TITLE : CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
COMPANY : UMASS
EXECUTIVE BIO
Cho is the Chief Procurement
Officer for the University of Massachusetts , Unified Procurement Services Team ( UPST ) that provides strategic sourcing , contracts , supplier management , procurement operations , accounts payable , travel services , and customer services to the various campuses within the UMass system .
Before joining the UMass System , he was the former Global Head of Sourcing and Vendor Management at BlackRock where he led Sourcing and Vendor Management ( SVM ) for the World ’ s largest Asset Management firm . SVM covers all third-party sourcing for technology , HR , marketing , L & C , professional services , and corporate services .
Over Cho ’ s 25 + years of work experience , he has maintained COO roles for emerging alternative asset management companies , and also provided strategy and operations management consulting services to regional , national , and global companies during his stint at KPMG , Archstone Consulting , IBM , Deloitte Consulting and JP Morgan Chase .
Cho is a graduate of Boston College and completed the MIT Sloan Executive Program in Technology , Operations and Value Chain Management .
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