Joel has overall leadership of procurement and vendor management functions at Zions Bancorporation ($55 billion in assets).  Responsibilities include strategic sourcing, purchasing, vendor operational management, contract execution and management, and regulatory relations.

Joel is a multi-faceted leader with 20 years of experience in leading enterprise procurement, project, quality, and change initiatives. During his 10 year career at GE Capital, Joel led several large domestic and global transformation programs, including the transformation of processes in 9 local countries into a centralized regional framework in Western Europe.  Joel led the transformation programs for both the US and Europe to migrate over 2MM commercial accounts onto a new processing platform.

Joel has a Master of Science in Project Management from George Washington University, Washington DC. Joel is a certified Lean Six Sigma Quality Master Black Belt and Black Belt, as well as a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).