Background on Damon De La Pena

As part of his business development role, Damon is always seeking new supply chain management projects to drive cost saving strategies for existing and new BDM clients.  He has built a successful supply chain consulting firm with his business partner and the BDM team.  Damon has utilized a combined twenty-six years of Intel and BDM supply chain management experience and applied it directly to client solutions. Through the experience, he has sharpened core leadership, business development, management and strategic planning skills as a CEO to grow the company. He thrives on innovation and pushes his strategic thinking, auditing, marketing, organizational development and management skills daily to provide clients with cost saving results and best in class consulting services.  Recently, the BDM team provided solutions for their utility, oil & gas, manufacturing, and technology clients to lean their supply chain strategies and reduce costs. BDM has directly saved large utility clients over:

• $0.5M with a vendor managed inventory solution
• $1.7M through a commodity source strategy
• $2.0M with a surplus/obsolete inventory solution

In his Director role, he has set clear vision and built strategic alliances with key business and technology partners. These alliances have resulted in new product offerings and international business opportunities in Scotland, China, Romania and across the US.  Damon recently joined the Greater Phoenix Economic Business Council (GPEC) and is actively participating in renewable energy business development strategies.  He is also a member of the GPEC International Leadership team.

Damon earned an MBA with an international business focus from Arizona State University. In addition to his current role, he cultivated this focus with practical experience from two Intel international expatriate assignments and integrates this experience into optimizing his client’s business operations. He spent the last 10 years developing his global management skills as an expat in South East Asia. In this capacity he negotiated global contracts and managed inventory procurement for one of Intel’s start up factories. While on assignment, he took on a role as a Risk and Controls Manager mitigating excessive cost risk, business interruption risk, and corporate fraud. A key career highlight of Damon’s was the creation of a new Global Risk Management Organization for Intel’s largest division, the Technology Manufacturing Group. He managed a global team of Risk and Controls Managers in 14 countries. This organization was able to reduced overall risk exposure to Intel Corporation by $300M over a three year period.

Professionally, Damon is driven to help develop leaders’ ability to better utilize a company’s most important asset — it’s people.  Personally, Damon is an adventurous hiker having hiked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, the Inca Trail in Peru and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. He enjoys scuba diving, fitness training, and international travel. Damon, his wife and 4 children enjoy spending time together at the beach, mountain biking and traveling together.

Learn more about his expertise, projects and career at BDM Consulting Inc..