Keough Associates is a boutique supply chain consulting firm specializing in boosting shareholder value by improving our clients’ ability to collaborate with their customers and suppliers. As companies who have undertaken such efforts will readily attest, optimizing supply chain relationships is a complex and multi-faceted business. Technical incompatibilities, business process issues, and operational challenges torpedo a great many efforts to improve supply chain efficiencies. To help address this complex landscape of challenges, we employ a virtual team of professionals with deep expertise in every supply chain discipline, so that we can bring the right resources to bear to solve even the most complex customer challenge.

Leadership

Bill Keough, Managing Partner

Bill Keough specializes in working with senior executives to help them identify opportunities to improve their supply chain operations and increase shareholder value. Prior to launching his own firm, Bill designed and deployed technical, business process, and supply chain solutions for a variety of firms in the oil & gas, discreet manufacturing, distribution, software, and financial services industries. Bill’s experience includes working as the Director of the Intelligence Division for a political risk consulting firm, and in senior roles in technology and management consulting for oilfield service giant Schlumberger and for IBM. During this time Bill worked extensively with a number of global companies, helping them to engineer IT systems to support complex international operations. Bill also advised many of the largest business-to-business marketplaces in agriculture, industrial chemicals, oil & gas, and retail industries.

Following his career at IBM, Bill moved to Seattle to work with an early stage technology company, helping them to deploy an innovative, real-time, business-to-business integration platform solution that has now become the standard for the aerospace industry.

Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, Bill founded what is now the largest technology entrepreneurs' organization in Texas, with chapters in Houston, Austin and Dallas. Bill is currently active in the Northwest Entrepreneur’s Network, the Seattle Chapter of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Society for Information Management (SIM).