The Deming Cup Selection Committee, comprised of eminent figures across industry and academia, is chaired by Terry Lundgren, former Chair and CEO of Macy’s, Inc. and current Founder and CEO of TJL Advisors, LLC, Samuel Palmisano, former Chair, President and CEO of IBM and current Chair of the Center for Global Enterprise, and Angela Quintero, Managing Director of the Deming Center.
The Deming Center accepts nominations for the Deming Cup from January through early June. Our Selection Committee chairs meticulously review nominees to select 1-3 outstanding candidates. These candidates are then presented to the Selection Committee for final endorsement. Honorees are announced in mid-August.
The Deming Cup Selection Comittee is made up by the following members:
- David Abney
Former Chair & CEO, UPS - Juan Ramón Alaix
Former CEO, Zoetis - Douglas M. Baker, Jr.
Co-Founder, E2SG Partners
Executive Chair, Ecolab - Omar Besbes '08
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business, Columbia Business School - Michele Buck
Chair, President & CEO, The Hershey Company - Niren Chaudhary
Chair, Panera Brands - John Church
Former Chief Supply Chain Officer and Global Business Solutions Officer, General Mills - Philippe Cochet
Former Chief Productivity Officer, GE - Brian Cornell
Chair & CEO, Target - Toby Cosgrove
Executive Advisor, Cleveland Clinic - David Cote
Executive Chair, Vertiv Holdings Co. - Michael Dowling
President & CEO, Northwell Health - Awi Federgruen
Charles E. Exley Professor of Management, Columbia Business School - Meyer Feldberg '65
Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley - Beth Ford '95
President & CEO, Land O’Lakes, Inc. - Nelson Fraiman '71
Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Business School - Kenneth Frazier
Executive Chair, Merck & Co. - Peter Gibbons
Group President, Enterprise Operations, 3M - Dario Gil
SVP, Director of Research, IBM - Lynne Greene
Former Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies - Richard Jaffe '92
Operating Partner, Overton Venture Capital
Adjunct Professor, SUNY FIT - Brent James
Affiliated Clinical Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine - Fisk Johnson
Chair & CEO, SC Johnson & Son - Hubert Joly
Former Chair & CEO, Best Buy - Klaus Kleinfeld
Chair & CEO, K2Elevation - Ellen Kullman
CEO, Carbon3D - Shelly Lazarus '70
Chair Emerita, Ogilvy & Mather - Terry Lundgren
Former Chair & CEO, Macy’s, Inc.
Founder & CEO of TJL Advisors, LLC - Vik Malhotra
Chair of the Americas, McKinsey and Company - Francisco Mesquita '80
Director & President, Estado de S. Paulo - David Niles '98
President, G100 Companies - Indra Nooyi
Former Chair & CEO, PepsiCo - Bennett Nussbaum'71
Interim CFO, Purple - Samuel Palmisano
Former Chair, President & CEO, IBM
Chair, Center for Global Enterprise - Deirdre Quinn
Co-Founder & CEO, Lafayette 148 New York - Daniel Ramot
Co-Founder & CEO, Via - Quentin Roach
Chief Procurement Officer / Supply Chain & Value Chain, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. - Paolo Rocca
CEO, Techint Group; Chair & CEO, Tenaris S.A. - Kevin Sowers
President, Johns Hopkins Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine - George Stalk
Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group - Tim Steiner
CEO & Co-Founder, Ocado Group - Ratan Tata
Chair Emeritus, Tata Sons & Tata Group - Craig Thompson
Former President & CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - David Thurm
COO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art - Garrett van Ryzin
Distinguished Scientist, Amazon - Kathy Warden
Chair, CEO & President, Northrop Grumman