NEDA Education Foundation elects Faculty Board Member

The NEDA Education Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Laura Meade to its Board of Directors. Dr. Meade is an associate professor of supply chain practice in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth.

The Neeley School of Business offers a Supply and Value Chain Center which provides forums where company representatives, faculty and students exchange ideas with supply chain experts in an interactive environment. The mission of the program is to develop future supply chain leaders with integrative skills and a global perspective, exchange ideas and best practices between business partners, faculty, students and supply chain experts and to sponsor leading-edge research that will advance supply chain practices.

In addition to her academic background, Dr. Meade has held engineering positions in the private sector. She joins Richard Meznarich of the University of Nebraska-Kearney as faculty representatives on the Board of Directors and will serve a three-year term.

The NEDA Education Foundation is the educational arm of the National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA), a not-for-profit trade association representing distributors of electronic components and their manufacturer-suppliers.