Gerard Pearce is executive vice president of SQA Services Inc., a Los Angeles-based company specializing in global supplier quality management. Pearce has more than 20 years’ experience in combining the fields of quality, supply management, and technology. He published The Purchasing Revolution in 1999 and served on the committee of the World Congress of the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management. He is heavily involved in shaping and implementing the global outsourcing quality strategy for SQA’s Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries, including medical device, pharmaceutical, aerospace, and high technology.