Dr. Wayne Pernell left Procter & Gamble, where he ran North America operations for the company's second-largest customer team, to modernize a technology-lagging industry. He points to blind receiving, where pallets arrive without verification of contents, as a concrete example of the inefficiency he wants to fix.
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My last position with P and G was running North America operations for their second largest customer team. Just the almost startup mode with new business development. Worked for a brokerage, you know, which was amazing. A cost of sales and marketing. Learned so much from there and the people there. So I just feel like, you know, all these things, product supply, logistics, did that at P and G. So bringing that to the table to build a startup, you know, you'd think, well, hey, let's see if these same skills are. All this stuff I've learned can be reapplied to any industry. So when he brought it to me and just knowing my dad's background, I thought, you know, let's give it a try, let's see what happens, right? So I think that's really was, you know, wanting to build something, wanting to do something that was beyond myself, that was going to help an industry that was so far behind in technology. When I left P and G, we were doing blind receiving at top customers, which means the pallet would come through and no would be. Nobody would check what was on that pallet. They just receive it as if it was real.