Juan Carlos Marcos Yerves

Juan Carlos Marcos has a long track running international executive roles in big organizations. Being a Business Advisor and Strategy Consultant for many years and having a great international exposure in the area of Global Operations and Supply Chain. He has assisted in primary role to the deep transformation of the Supply Chain Strategy and operations that has happened during the last 25 years.

Passionate about Business Consulting, as Executive Partner of Accenture he was Global Lead of Accenture Supply Chain gathering a great insight of the transformation of business operations in different industries: Telecommunications, Consumer Goods, Electronics, Pharma, Aerospace, Automotive, Natural Resources, etc.

In the early 2000’s he adopted the Digital Transformation era and he was founder of the first steps of Accenture Digital for Supply Chain. That new race gave him a differentiating perspective on subjects like Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0.

Currently retired from Accenture looking for a new personal balance, he is committed to share part of his time sharing his experience and knowledge with the Society, teaching in Business Schools and Universities.

He delivers lectures about Innovation & Supply Chain, Industry 4.0, Analytics applied to Supply Chain, Global Operations and others.

Based on his business experience, he is a firm believer of the importance of Mathematics in the background of the students and future leaders. In the era of Big Data and Analytics, new business generations need to reinforce our understanding of “mathematics and logic” as an entry point to the digital opportunities. For that reason, he is also delivering Mathematics in the BBA Grade of IE University.

Corporate Experience

Juan Carlos Marcos has more than 25 years of experience running leadership roles in Global Companies.

In 2004, he reached the position of Global Managing Director of Supply Chain in Accenture, the #1 Global Management Consulting and Technology Firm with more than 450.000 professionals deployed worldwide. He gathered a vast experience assessing leading global companies of multiple industries in their strategy, transformational and innovation programs.

Retired from Accenture, he currently shares his time as business advisor for Global Supply Chain Operations, Industry 4.0 Transformation and Digital Supply Chain.

He also coaches “startups” in their emerging processes or participating in capital rounds as investor or advisor

Academic Experience

Juan Carlos Marcos has collaborated as associated professor with several Business Schools and Universities.

• Faculty of Mathematics in IE University

• Professor of Supply Chain Innovation and Technology in Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya (FPC-UPC)

• Professor of Industry 4.0 in EOI – Business School

• Professor of Global Operations and Supply Chain in Nebrija Business School

Academic Background

Juan Carlos Marcos studied Civil Engineering at U. Politécnica – Madrid. He holds a Postgraduate Degree in Advanced Calculation of Foundations and Structures (1989).

He is also certified by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS, 1992) in Supply Chain. APICS is the premier professional association for Supply Chain and Operations Management.

He holds a PDD from IESE Business School (2001)

He is specialized on Digital Transformation, Big Data and Digital Supply Chain from Accenture Academy