Christopher M. Jones, MBA Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Mr. Christopher Jones holds the position of Vice President-Operations for Baxter Healthcare Corporation. He has spent fifteen years in the healthcare industry, with extensive experience in manufacturing operations. At Baxter, Mr. Jones leads the team responsible for strategy and planning related to Baxter's global capacity investments, as well as projects related to cost and risk reduction. He also leads the External Contract Manufacturing team responsible for relationships with suppliers who provide finished goods to Baxter.

Prior to joining Baxter, Mr. Jones worked for General Electric Healthcare as an Executive in the Global Supply Chain group. His supply chain experience includes leading GE Healthcare's Global Supply Chain Strategy team in supply chain optimization and simplification, as well as long term capacity utilization planning to address changing market dynamics. Mr. Jones also has experience managing teams responsible for all manufacturing aspects of new product introductions.

At GE Healthcare, he also worked in the areas of product quality and test engineering. Examples of this work include the management of global product quality initiatives and the development and implementation of best practices for manufacturing tests.

Mr. Jones holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.