
Steve Brown is currently a Global Product Life-cycle Manager with Hewlett-Packard’s Global Parts Supply Chain Organization and is responsible for cost mitigation strategies related to supporting H-P’s global server and super computing businesses. Steve’s strategies have saved H-P an average of $20 million annually for the last three years. In his seventeen years with H-P, Steve has held positions in Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Vendor Management and as a Supply Chain Specialist—experience that has contributed to current strategy development. Steve is best known for the inception, development and implementation of H-P’s first & current Consumer Trade In / Trade Up Program (Ink/Laser/Scan Jets).