Instructor

Darin L Matthews LinkedIn

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DARIN MATTHEWS, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, CPSM, CPM, is a chief procurement officer at California Polytechnic State University. He has over 30 years of procurement and supply chain management experience in both the private and public sectors, including experience as a director for Mercell, an international leader in digital procurement, chief procurement officer for UC Santa Cruz, Portland State University, and Portland Public Schools. He speaks throughout the world on procurement issues and has published several books on supply chain management, including Effective Supply Management Performance (ISM), Warehousing and Inventory Control (NIGP), Logistics and Transportation (NIGP), and Public Procurement: A Guide to the Body of Knowledge through Exercises and Case Studies. He has also been a regular contributor to American City & County and Government Procurement magazine. A past president of the Institute for Public Procurement (NIGP), he has traveled extensively with the International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC). In 2020 he began hosting The Evolution of Procurement podcast. Matthews founded the UCSC Silicon Valley Procurement and Supply Chain Management certificate program and served as its chair through 2021.

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Associated Program(s)

Supply Chain Management

Sustainable Supply Chain Strategies