President Proelio, LLC
IE Areas
- Supply Chain Engineering
Mentor Topics
- Advice on the Transition to a Professional Environment
- Advice related to graduate school
- Advice related to maximizing success at GT
- Entrepreneurial Perspective
- Finance/Business Perspective
- General Career Mentoring
- Global Business Experience
- Leadership Skills
- Networking in the industry
- Non-ISyE Career Option
- Private Industry Career Perspective
- Resume Advice
About
Mr. White is a business and supply chain executive with over 25 years of management consulting, sales, software, material handling and automation integration, and international business experience. Mr. White has held numerous P&L level positions within both public and private companies, led professional service organizations, and served on numerous Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.
Mr. White is President of Proelio, LLC where he provides advisory services to private equity and venture firms, serves on Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards, provides consulting services to select clients, serves as a coach/mentor to professionals and undergraduate students, and makes private investments in select supply chain, automation, and material handling businesses.
Previously, Mr. White held the position of President & CEO and Member of the Board of Directors at Fortna Inc. where he led the company for 10 years. Mr. White was successful in selling Fortna to a private equity company (Thomas H. Lee [THL] Partners) in early 2019 and initiated and completed transition to a new CEO at the end of June 2020.
Prior to Fortna, Mr. White was a Managing Officer and Vice President of Supply Chain Management with Capgemini, LLC and Adjoined Consulting. Mr. White has also served in a number of senior executive management positions including: Manugistics, Inc. as the Group Vice President of Strategic Consulting Services and Supplier Relationship Management; and Accenture, where he began his career and rapidly rose to Senior Manager in their Strategic Services Supply Chain Management Practice.
Mr. White is a member of the Board of Trustees of Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., member of the Board of Directors of Zone 4 Holdings, LLC, Advisor for New Vista (SPAC I [NVSA] & Private Capital), Executive Network Member at Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), Executive Affiliate at Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners, an Emeritus member of the Board of Advisors of Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, past member of the Board of Advisors for One Million Metrics Corp. (d/b/a Kinetic), past Board of Directors member of Wellroot Family Services, past Advisory Board Member of The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute’s Leaders in Logistics at Georgia Tech, and past President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC). He received the DC Velocity 2013 Rainmakers award and the Supply and Demand Chain Executive 2015 Pros to Know award.
Mr. White received an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering (BSIE) from Georgia Institute of Technology.