Jack Buffington

Jack Buffington is the Program Director/Professor for the Supply Chain Management program and the Denver Transportation Institute at the University of Denver. Buffington is also the Supply Chain and Sustainability Director at First Key Consulting, a global brewing consulting firm. Before these roles, Jack was responsible for supply chain logistics for MillerCoors Brewing Company, the second-largest beer company in the U.S. and the fourth-largest worldwide. During Jack’s career at MillerCoors, he was responsible for various functions in Information Technology, Operations, Supply Chain, and special projects such as the merger between Miller and Coors and Coors and Molson.

Buffington received a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from the Lulea University of Technology in Lulea, Sweden, and a Post-Doc at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Jack has published over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and eight books, most recently 2024 titled “Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and Planet by 2050” and 2023 “Reinventing Supply Chain: A 21st Century Covenant for America.” Jack is collaborating with innovators in supply chain, sustainability, and healthcare across the planet.