Haslam College of Business - Mary Long

Biography

Mary Long is the CEO of Abgility, an organization on a mission to create more able and agile supply chains. She is a lecturer of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a board advisor to the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN).

Long’s food industry expertise comes from executive global leadership roles at Domino’s and Campbell’s Soup, with earlier supply chain roles at General Mills, Pillsbury, and The Quaker Oats Company/Gatorade. Her areas of expertise include advancing digital supply chain agility, supply chain strategy and customer-focused transformation.

Long is passionate about developing supply chain talent and applying insights to accelerate public-private humanitarian partnerships and supply chain strategy. She serves on the advisory board for Hassett Logistics and was a previous advisory board member for AWESOME, an organization for executive women in supply chain. She was chair of the board of directors for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and is on the editorial board for Supply Chain Quarterly and the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics, and Procurement. Long has co-authored two white papers.

In collaboration with the Center for Agriculture, Food Security and Preparedness and ALAN, Long has developed two supply chain courses for the Department of Homeland Security. She is a faculty advisor to NeXxus, a student organization focused on advancing women in supply chain management.