Finance and the Supply Chain

Also an Adjunct Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. There he teaches in the Executive Masters in International Logistics Program. Dr. Timme was a Finance Professor at the Roberto Goizueta Business School at Emory University where he twice earned the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.

FinListics Solutions helps clients identify potential areas of opportunities and link the impact of business process change on specific financial metrics and overall financial performance. FinListics Solutions services have been provided throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America and Asia-Pacific for clients such as AT&T, Citi, Coca-Cola Co., Colgate Palmolive, Delta Airlines, Disney, EDS, Eli Lilly & Co., Exel Logistics, FedEx, Georgia-Pacific, Hershey Foods, IBM, Lowe's, Manhattan Associates, PepsiCo, QAD, SAS, Siemens, UPS, Wells Fargo, Wal-Mart, many other companies.

He is often a featured speaker at executive seminars sponsored by CFO Magazine and is also often quoted and has authored articles in many professional publications like Supply Chain Management Review, CFO Magazine, and CIO Magazine. Dr. Timme recently authored the chapter "Financial Management," in Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management, Sage Publications, 2007.

Stuart Roberts is a managing director and the head of Supply Chain Finance, which is part of Wells Fargo Capital Finance. Based in Charlotte, N.C., Stuart manages a team that markets and delivers supply chain financing to corporate customers and banks. Financing services offered by the Supply Chain Finance team cover the entire order-tocash continuum, entirely through one platform.

Before joining Wachovia, now part of Wells Fargo, in 2008, Stuart worked for Citi for eight years and was based in New York, San Francisco and Toronto. There he was a managing director and head of Global Trade Sales for North America. While at Citi, he also held positions as a relationship manager for Citi's largest technology customers and as a global relationship manager for the Canadian power, energy, chemicals, and mining sector. Stuart has also worked for HSBC in Western Canada as a relationship manager responsible for the commodities sector.

Stuart began his banking career with Royal Bank of Scotland in corporate and institutional banking, where he worked in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Stuart holds a bachelor's degree in economic history from the University of Portsmouth, and a master's degree in international relations from the University of Leeds, both in the United Kingdom. He is on the board of governors for the Supply Chain Management master's degree program and is a guest lecturer for the M.B.A. program at the University of Michigan. Under Stuart's leadership, his team was recently awarded "Best Supply Chain Finance Bank" in 2010 by Trade & Forfaiting Review. While at Citi, the team at Citi won 20 awards including "Best Supply Chain Finance Bank in North America" in 2007 by Treasury Management International and "Best Trade Finance Bank in the Americas" in 2007 and 2008 by Global Finance. Stuart has also received two awards for "Best Trade Finance Business Development" while working for HSBC in Canada.