Business Chief USA August 2020

Covell, “here in the United States we
have had to deal with not being able
to bring in our volunteers for our seven
sites in the US which we rely heavily
on to make our operations work. So
not having the volunteers has been
a significant disruption. In terms of
distribution, we are still getting donations
in from corporations which is
awesome, but the team has pivoted
to emergency response instead of
normal distributions, so we are currently
serving a global emergency
response as well as a local emergency
response, which putting all
these elements together makes a
very challenging environment,” comments
Covell. He believes that “the
US team has done an excellent job
setting up distribution hubs at 12 different
sites around the country and
have been ramping up efforts to get
food and essential supplies to each
of those hubs on top of serving 17 of
the most fragile countries impacted
by COVID-19.”
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE:
Tim Covell
Title: Supply Chain Director Company: World Vision
Industry: Non-profit Organization Management
Tim has a BS in Operations Research/Systems Analysis from West
Point Military Academy, and a MS in Engineering Management
from Milwaukee School of Engineering. After some time serving
in the Army and then leading operations in transportation
services, he spent over 21 years at GE Healthcare in Milwaukee,
WI. During that time, he had experience in a variety of roles
from Mfg and Materials leadership to New Product Development
and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering. He recently joined
World Vision in Seattle, WA to lead the GIK Supply Chain
operation and has been serving there for 3 ½ years.
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