National Association of Wholesale-Distributors (NAW) (Washington, D.C.): Guy Blissett, a wholesale-distribution industry expert at IBM's Institute for Business Value (IBV), has been named a fellow of the NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence, NAW's long-range research arm. The NAW Institute established the Fellows program in 1999 to acknowledge individuals who have made and will continue to make significant intellectual contributions to the field of wholesale distribution.
Other Institute fellows are Adam Fein, president of Pembroke Consulting; Brent Grover, president of Evergreen Consulting, LLC; Barry Lawrence, director of the Industrial Distribution Program and the Supply Chain Systems Lab at Texas A&M University; and Michael Marks, managing partner at Indian River Consulting Group.
During their terms, NAW Institute Fellows work with the NAW Institute to develop and bring new research. During their terms, NAW Institute Fellows work with the NAW Institute to develop and bring new research studies to the wholesale distribution industry. The first NAW Institute project that Blissett will undertake is the next Facing the Forces of Change report.