Brian Masterson is GE Healthcare's Vice President, Global Supply Chain. Brian joins GEHC from GE Oil & Gas, where he was VP, Global Supply Chain. He’s consistently recognized for enabling tremendous growth, delivering manufacturing productivity and sourcing savings, and integrating global operations.

Brian and his team will drive functional excellence across all of GE Healthcare, focusing on the key operational domains of Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Facilities and EHS. Specifically, Global Supply Chain will leverage GEHC’s worldwide footprint for greater efficiency and performance in inventory management, order-to remittance cycle time, logistics, plant and equipment investing, demand modeling, trade control compliance and import/export strategies.

Brian’s official start date with Healthcare will be January 1, 2009. In the interim he will be spending some time evaluating our Supply Chain strategy, and, after Jan. 1, will work to develop an organization and strategy to drive the efficiencies outlined above. Brian and his family will be relocating to the Milwaukee area.