Jim Reed (Past Speaker)

Jim D. Reed is the chief purchasing officer and vice president of Global Supply Chain Management for Spirit AeroSystems. Before assuming this role, Reed served as vice president of Global Contracts, Pricing, Estimating and Procurement Cost Support. He joined Spirit in December 2009 and assumed the role in procurement in September 2016. Prior to joining Spirit AeroSystems, Reed worked as global vice president of Supply Chain and Procurement at Lear Corporation. He returned to Lear in 2000 and worked as vice president of Finance before his promotion to Supply Chain and Procurement. He was responsible for all global procurement, logistics, cost technology benchmarking centers and target pricing. Reed began his career in 1978 as a cost accountant, increasing his responsibilities within finance to chief financial officer position of two companies. Reed completed his Masters of Business Administration while working for GenCorp, and achieved his CPA license in Indiana while working for Harsco Corporation. He graduated from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Reed and his wife, Robin, have grown two children, Jen and Ryan. Jim and Robin relocated to Wichita in 2009 from Shanghai, China.