Caldwell Hart CPSM CPSD is Principal of CHART Consulting, where he advises organizations on their sustainable procurement and ESG strategies, procurement optimization, and development of supply chain/procurement enabling technology solutions.  Caldwell served as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer for Turtle and Hughes Inc., a $750M WBE industrial distributor and services company.  Previously, he served as Chief Procurement Officer for MKS Instruments, a high-tech manufacturer of equipment and solutions for the semi-conductor and advanced markets industries.  Caldwell has served in other senior supply chain management positions, and as Interim Chief Procurement Officer for Dresser-Rand, a Siemens Business providing supply chain solutions for the oil and gas industry.  Caldwell earlier held several leadership positions in procurement and operations for Bristol Myers Squibb and the former United Technologies Corporation.

Caldwell speaks frequently on supplier risk management, supplier diversity & inclusion initiatives, supply chain management organizational design, and consumption management, and he also serves as an instructor for Institute of Supply Management.   Additionally, Caldwell is an active participant in the Sustainable Procurement Pledge and its Embedding Project, which focuses on best practices in sustainable procurement.  He recently became an Ecovadis practitioner.  Caldwell has an MBA from Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a BA in History from Washington & Lee University.