David Steven Jacoby

David Steven Jacoby, Chairman of Boston Strategies International, is a supply chain technology consultant, professor, mentor & author whose latest book is on digital & AI-driven supply chains. He has been optimizing corporate strategy and performance for clients in power, gas, oil, transport, automotive and other industries for over 30 years.

He wrote Guide to Supply Chain Management (The Economist); Optimal Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power Generation (PennWell); The High Cost of Low Prices (Business Expert Press); Trump, Trade and The End of Globalization (ABC-Clio); From Bogota to Beijing: Development and Life After Globalization (Lexington Press), Reinventing the Energy Value Chain: Supply Chain Roadmaps for Digital Oilfields through Hydrogen Fuel Cells (PennWell), Getting to Net Zero: The Complete Guide to Decarbonizing Global Businesses and Supply Chains (KDP), and Retooling America for AI-Driven Supply Chains (KDP). In addition, he has contributed 250 speeches, articles and webcasts to publications such as Supply Chain Management Review and Supply Chain Quarterly.

He teaches operations management, supply chain management, and decarbonizing global supply chains at NYU and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and formerly taught at Boston University's Questrom graduate school of business.

While based in the US, Brazil, Hong Kong, France, and other countries he consulted on strategic sourcing, purchasing and outsourcing, shipping, and capital investments.

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a Masters in International Business from Lauder Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Certified Energy Procurement Professional (CEP), a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM), Certified in Supply Chain Management (CSCP), Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), Certified in Purchasing Management (Lifetime C.P.M.), and Certified in Transportation and Logistics (CTL). He serves on CSCMP's thesis review committee for MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics.