Gregory Collins

Gregory Collins 雷轲林 is an Industrial Sinologist with expertise in global supply chain and operations strategy and supply chain finance.  Over 20 years of experience in China and Asia, with senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Flex, and Gerber Scientific.  Since 2006, Professor Collins is founder and Chief Supply Chain Officer of The Lakeline Group, a Hong Kong and Shanghai-based private equity investment and consulting firm.  He has worked with boards, management teams, and supply chains in over 30 countries and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. 

An early investor in China’s supply chain development, Professor Collins moved to Changsha, Hunan in 1992.  Following his MBA from ASU's WP Carey School of Business in 1997, he managed China outsourcing at Microsoft Corp.  In 2000, he pioneered the development of the Shanghai and North China supply chain as Vice President of Operations at Flex. He went on to to serve as Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific.  

Professor Collins currently teaches Supply Chain Strategy and Operations in the Undergraduate, Executive, and MBA programs at WP Carey School of Business, as well as Executive and Innovation graduate programs at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Herberger School of Design and the Arts.  As the faculty advisor of MBA program's Capstone in SCM consulting, he directs the graduate student consulting for Meta, Intel, Applied Materials, Mayo Clinic, WL Gore, Canadian Pacific Railroad, and many others.  

In 2021, Gregory Collins was awarded the prestigious WP Carey School of Business "Business is Personal" Inclusive Teaching Award.  

A University of Colorado Conference on World Affairs speaker from 2007-2009, Professor Collins has also lectured at the Leaders in Manufacturing Program at MIT’s Sloan School of Business, Zhongshan University, Hunan Medical University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University.  Professor Collins has been awarded with the Key of Shanghai by Shanghai Chief Huang Ju in 2002 and a 2008 Beijing Olympics Sponsorship by Olympics Chairman and Beijing Mayor Liu Qi.   Professor Collins was honored in the Great Hall of the People by Chinese President Hu Jin Tao in 2004. 

Gregory Collins holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, a BA from the University of Colorado-Boulder.  He studied Chinese at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Artificial intelligence & Data Science at the University of Chicago.