Peter C. Kershaw
’76, B.S. Industrial Engineering
Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain,
Millipore Corporation
After graduating from Lehigh in 1976 with a BS degree in industrial engineering, I earned a PE license from the state of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from Duquesne University in 1980 while working in the greater Pittsburgh area for Babcock & Wilcox (steel industry). After spending four years too far from the east coast, my wife, Irene, and I headed to New England. Over the last 27 years we've lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and I've worked in the manufacturing sector of the healthcare industry.
In 2004, I joined Millipore as a corporate officer with responsibility for our global supply chain. Millipore is a $1.2 billion leading global provider of products and services that improve productivity in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and in clinical, analytical and research laboratories. Our Bioprocess Division helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers optimize their manufacturing productivity, ensure quality, and scale up production of therapeutic drugs, including difficult-to-manufacture biologics. Our Bioscience Division helps optimize laboratory productivity and workflows by providing reagents, kits, and other enabling technologies, products and services for life science research and development. In essence, we help our customers discover, develop, and manufacture new therapeutic drugs.
As Corporate Vice President, Global Supply Chain, I am responsible for our "order to cash" cycle. This includes more than twenty locations and three thousand people in North America, Europe and Asia (customer service centers, manufacturing plants and distribution centers). My responsibilities also include procurement, environmental compliance, health & safety, property management and Lean Six Sigma which are all led from corporate headquarters.
My start in healthcare began with Johnson & Johnson as an industrial engineer in their orthopedic business where I received wonderful opportunities in materials management, manufacturing management and manufacturing engineering management. Since then, I've also worked in CR Bard’s cardiovascular franchise, Bespak’s medical device contract manufacturing subsidiary, and Hologic’s breast imaging division, the latter two in general management capacities.
