Brian Foster is Executive Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer of Usual Industries.
Brian leads sourcing, supplier management, procurement operations and enterprise spend visibility.
Before joining Usual, Brian was chief procurement officer at Continental Allied Manufacturing and a managing director at Northbridge Sourcing Partners. He has led global supplier consolidations, category-management programs and several successful efforts to establish a reliable starting estimate of the number of active suppliers in an organization.
Brian serves on the board of the Supplier Futures Council and the Great Plains State University Center for Commercial Practice. He holds a bachelor’s degree in supply management from Great Plains State University and a certificate in strategic negotiation from the Longford Institute.
- Affiliations
- Supplier Futures Council; Great Plains State University Center for Commercial Practice
- Education
- Great Plains State University; Longford Institute
