Jake Barr

Having completed a 33-year career with the Procter & Gamble Company, Jake became a principal and CEO with BlueWorld Supply Chain Consulting, where he now provides consulting support to a cross section of top Fortune 500 companies. 

At P&G he directed the Global Supply Network Design effort and helped design an E2E (End to End) Planning Transformation for the Company. He is recognized as one of the architects for P&G’s demand driven supply chain strategy.

Jake began his career with P&G in Finance in Risk Analysis and then moved into Operations.  He has experience in building supply network capability globally through leadership assignments in Asia, Latin America, and North America. 

He currently serves as a Research Associate for MIT; a member of Supply Chain 2020 Industry Advisory Council; Member of Gartner’s Supply Chain Think Tank; Consumer Goods Advisory Panel; and as a Board member of Industry Global Supply Chain Talent & Academic Initiative. Selected as 2013 Transformational Leader of the Year at SCM Leaders on Demand Summit. A P&G lifetime inductee of the Magnus Society for Supply Chain excellence.