Vice President of Supply Chain Management Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
For over 20 years, Sylvester DuPree III has been using the skills developed while obtaining his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati to critically think and solve complex organizational problems. Today, DuPree leads the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s Supply Chain Management organization as the Vice President of Supply Chain Management where he is responsible for all Procurement, Supply Chain Operations, Distribution, Logistics, and Food & Nutrition Services for the medical system.
Prior to joining the healthcare organization, he spent over a decade in the automotive industry, before joining Merck & Company where he supported Latin American facilities in improving their manufacturing processes through Lean Thinking and Principles. He was then appointed to the Keytruda Executive Leadership Team responsible for the global lean strategy for Merck’s Marquee Product, Keytruda. DuPree spent the last 4 years of his career at Merck as a Supply Chain Director in Global Vaccines for Merck Manufacturing where he led the organization to improve critically constrained vaccine output to improve global demand.
