Bill Killingsworth Executive Director MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation

Dr. Killingsworth conducts research and consulting in supply chain design and optimization, enterprise software, lean enterprise, lean manufacturing, six sigma, innovation and new product development. Clients and research sponsors include government and defense organizations such as the Army Aviation and Missile Command and many companies in the automotive, aviation and aerospace industries. He helped form the Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association (400 corporate members including Mercedes Benz, Honda, Toyota, International Diesel and Hyundai) and the Alabama Aerospace Industry Association (100 corporate members).

Dr. Killingsworth has 25 years of experience in management consulting. Following graduate studies at MIT, he founded Killingsworth Associates, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His firm conducted consulting assignments across the United States, as well as in Europe and Africa, specializing in strategic planning, supply chain and continuous improvement processes, feasibility studies, budgeting and capitalization.

Dr. Killingsworth attended MIT for graduate school and was a National Science Foundation Fellow. At MIT, he received the S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics specializing in optimization and control theory. He was elected to Sigma Xi, the research honor society. His Ph.D., also from MIT, was in a joint program of the School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management. Dr. Killingsworth received the B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with highest honor from Auburn University.