Brian Stevenson

Brian Stevenson was a Senior Vice President with Interstate Bakeries Corp. until February 2005 when he formed B. Stevenson Associates, LLC a consulting firm. While at IBC, Mr. Stevenson directed the effort to change the way the company did business which included a complete reorganization from the CEO down and a three-phased implementation of a new ERP system (SAP). He was a member of the corporate senior executive management team and reported directly to the CEO. Prior to that he ran procurement for IBC, managing $1B of annual purchasing spend. Mr. Stevenson is currently a consultant to the grain based food industry including Ethanol, performing sales, product analysis, strategic purchasing, and price risk management for commodities used in this industry. He is also consulting to the Ethanol industry where he has analyzed the economic factors of building an ethanol plant and sustaining margins as well as investment opportunities along the value chain of ethanol production. He can discuss a wide variety of topics affecting the Consumer Goods and Ethanol Industry including the various players in the space, supermarket and Big Box purchasing and procurement, basic fundamental grain price analysis, consumer preferences, food supply chain and logistics, and variable cost analysis of Ethanol production plants. Prior to joining IBC he worked in senior management roles at Tradigrain (a subsidiary of British Petroleum) and Archer-Daniels Midland. (This is me - Update Profile)