Jon Pershke

Advisory Board Member

2024 - Current

Senior Advisor

2023

Robinhill Senior Advisory is the trusted firm for senior-most, sage advisors to help address significant opportunities to improve company performance and accelerate growth with a flexible, efficient business model.

Executive Practicum Advisor, Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC)

2022

Mentor, coach and advises graduate student practicum teams taking the MBA Capstone Practicum Course required for a supply chain concentration. Assists students in developing analytical business acumen, leadership, communication, presentation, interpersonal and critical thinking skills. Develops and maintains productive collaborative working relationships between students, faculty, and SCRC industry partners.

Cohort Mentor

2023

Investor

2022

Investor

2019

VP, Strategy & Emerging Business Development

2018 - 2022

PC & Smart Device Strategy Responsibility plus incubating emerging businesses including OEM, Vertical Customer Solutions, Augmented & Virtual Reality, and IoT.

Strategy and Transformation

2010 - 2018

Strategy, business transformation, supply chain, and project management.

Global Supply Chain - Business Transformation & Latin America

2009 - 2010

Business and IT transformation for Lenovo's global supply chain. Plus, responsible for our Latin American Supply Chain

VP America's Supply Chain

2007 - 2009

2005 - 2007

Pursued business acquisitions.

VP Fulfillment

2002 - 2005

Responsible for worldwide value added services to OEM's including box build/customization, systems integration, order fulfillment, and logistics. The focus of this position has been on business strategy development and execution for this evolving area of electronics outsourcing. Celestica purchased MSL in March 2004 and leveraged MSL's Fulfillment Solutions business as the cornerstone for growing its own services business. Maintained prior responsibilities plus added several Celestica fulfillment operations. Celestica is a $9B electronics manufacturing company. Fulfillment operations are located in Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Fontana, CA; Denver, CO; Vimercate, Italy; Reynosa, Mexico; Valencia, Spain; and Johor Baharu, Malaysia serving customers such as IBM, HP, Nokia, RIM, Siemens, Radisys, Diebold, Juniper, and Lexmark.

GM

2001 - 2002

Solectron Charlotte was a $1B/3000 employee operation at its peak in 2001 and was one of three “flagship” North American locations for the company during a hyper growth period in the late 1990’s and 2000. The site supported leading edge technology in support of Cisco, Lucent, IBM, GE Medical, Kodak, Nortel, Compaq, and Sun. Had complete GM responsibilities including P&L and customer management. Key focus areas and accomplishments include dramatic restructuring of the operation during the “tech bust” of 2001. Achieved positive financial results while maintaining high employee morale through open and frequent communications in an extremely challenging environment.

VP Supply Chain

1998 - 2001

Solectron’s Eastern Region consisted of 5 eastern North America plants and $3B of output of which materials spend constituted approx. 85% of revenues. Accountable for developing and executing supply chains strategies in the functional areas of procurement, logistics, asset management and IT systems. Had similar role for the Charlotte site operation prior to getting promoted to regional job. Solectron Charlotte was created after Solectron’s acquisition of IBM’s Charlotte operations and merged it with an existing local plant.