Secrets of Supplier Diversity with Harvey Butler

 Harvey Butler is the Founder and Managing Member of Butler Management Group, LLC (BMG) -- a boutique management consulting firm specializing in Corporate Responsibility - CR (Diversity & Inclusion, Supplier Diversity and Environmental Sustainability), Corporate Finance (Capital Acquisition, Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Forecasting & Analysis) and Supplier Development (Capacity Building, JV/Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions and Business Development).

Harvey is a sought-after innovator. His clients not only rely upon his breadth and depth of knowledge and experience, they also rely upon his ability to synthesize otherwise seemingly abstract ideas and events into cohesive strategies. Within the corporate responsibility space, Harvey has built a reputation in quantifying shareholder and societal value from organizational leadership incorporating CR as a core business competency.

Prior to launching BMG, Harvey was the former Vice President and Head of Corporate Supplier Diversity for JPMorgan Chase, He led his firm and the financial services industry to a number of firsts. Under his leadership, JPMorgan Chase was recognized as one of the leading financial services firms in the country for supplier diversity. He is credited with pioneering the use of virtual trade shows, deploying best-in-class buyer-supplier matchmaking events and actively engaging senior management and end-users in the evaluation, utilization and development of diverse suppliers. A two-term Chairman of the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s (NMSDC) Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), he led the group of nearly fifty corporate members to corporate America’s first Supplier Diversity Chief Procurement Officer Summit and Capital Summit.