Michelle is a 32-year supply chain professional dedicated to client service. Her primary focus is always building great teams to improve supply chain capabilities.

She has worked in both industry and consulting across a variety of industries, including chemicals, automotive OEM, high-tech, food and beverage, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, and aerospace and defense. She has worked in transportation/logistics, distribution operations, order management, network optimization and consulting doing work ranging from strategy development, S&OP, scheduling, procurement, organization design, large ERP implementations (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDA) and large-scale business transformation program/project management. Her consulting tenure includes Andersen, Hitachi Consulting, PwC and multiple independent engagements over many years.

Michelle was the 2020 Chair of the Board of Directors for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business teaching Supply Chain and Logistics Management where she received the university-wide Excellence in Teaching award and is a 1988 graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business with a B.S. degree in Transportation and Logistics.

As soon as Michelle became aware of additive manufacturing technologies, she could see the potential disruptions companies will experience in their manufacturing capabilities, their supply chains and their overall business models. She brings large project management experience and a capability to see outcomes far into the future. Her Myers-Briggs personality profile is INTJ — less than 1% of the female population — designated as “The Mastermind.”

As President of D&B Partners Consulting, Donald Godfrey provides additive manufacturing integration consulting services, and serves as a fractional executive supporting multiple companies, leveraging his multi-decade experience in standing up and integrating additive manufacturing capabilities for large corporations. Donald is a globally recognized authority on additive manufacturing technology, and processes, and has been awarded over 70 patents in the United States and Europe related to additive manufacturing.

Most recently, Donald Godfrey was the Global Director of Business Development for Aviation and Defense with SLM-Solutions, helping companies determine the best overall solutions for their additive manufacturing needs. Prior to SLM, Donald spent over 14 years at Honeywell Aerospace, and was recognized as the main contributor in the incorporation of metal printing. While at Honeywell, along with selecting and implementing multiple AM technologies, he focused on developing the global supply chain for additive and in qualifying services providers and powder suppliers across the world.

Donald is passionate about education, collaborating with college professors to author a college textbook on the topic of additive manufacturing. He is a co-author of Additive Manufacturing of Metals: The Technology, Materials, Design and Production; Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. As a coach and mentor, Mr. Godfrey frequently presents lectures to undergraduate and graduate students, and at times volunteers his time to be a mentor for undergraduate students completing Capstone Projects in the area of additive manufacturing. In 2018, Mr. Godfrey led a team of students into a new area of additive manufacturing and on April 14, 2020, each student was awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office: 10,620,103 B2