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Precision, Performance and Potential
July 15, 2025
Former drum major Craig Reed, MBA, CPSM, has conducted a career worthy of the 2025 J. Shipman Gold Medal Award — and as a pilot of successful procurement organizations, he still has ‘a lot of runway left.’
Executives in the meeting room at Honda of America in the 1990s were considering moving on from a supplier, and Craig Reed, MBA, CPSM — a commodity associate barely out of college — had doubts on whether it was contractually permissible.
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