Covell , “ here in the United States we have had to deal with not being able to bring in our volunteers for our seven sites in the US which we rely heavily on to make our operations work . So not having the volunteers has been a significant disruption . In terms of distribution , we are still getting donations in from corporations which is awesome , but the team has pivoted to emergency response instead of normal distributions , so we are currently serving a global emergency response as well as a local emergency response , which putting all these elements together makes a very challenging environment ,” comments Covell . He believes that “ the US team has done an excellent job setting up distribution hubs at 12 different sites around the country and have been ramping up efforts to get food and essential supplies to each of those hubs on top of serving 17 of the most fragile countries impacted by COVID-19 .”

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EXECUTIVE PROFILE :

Tim has a BS in Operations Research / Systems Analysis from West Point Military Academy , and a MS in Engineering Management from Milwaukee School of Engineering . After some time serving in the Army and then leading operations in transportation services , he spent over 21 years at GE Healthcare in Milwaukee , WI . During that time , he had experience in a variety of roles from Mfg and Materials leadership to New Product Development and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering . He recently joined World Vision in Seattle , WA to lead the GIK Supply Chain operation and has been serving there for 3 ½ years . businesschief . com