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Gary Lynch

CEO, Founder, Management Consultant, Author at The Risk Project, LLC

Morristown, United States

CEO and Founder of The Risk Project, LLC, an risk analytics based advisory firm, focused on helping senior business executives leverage uncertainty for competitive advantage. Formerly, Managing Director and Global Leader of Marsh’s supply chain risk practice. Spearheaded the development of new supply chain insurance coverage as well as a profitability-driven supply chain risk analysis. Served as a Partner for Booz Allen & Hamilton; Research Director and Market Analyst for Gartner Group’s Information Security Service; Chief Information Security Officer at Chase Manhattan Bank; and Executive Director of the Office of Operational Risk, Business Continuity and Information Security at The Prudential.

Founding member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness and Senior Research Fellow at the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Authored three risk management books and named as 2017 “Thought Leader of the Year” by the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Morristown, NJ to most global locations
Speaking Topics: Using Uncertainty for Competitive Advantage; Supply Chain Risk & Resilience

Gary Lynch Points
Academic 0
Author 255
Influencer 37
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 30
Total 322

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Risk, Supply Chain & Technology
Theatre: North America
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: N/A
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 25 years

Areas of Expertise

Analytics 30.04
Blockchain
Business Continuity 30.12
Business Strategy 32.04
Cloud
COVID19 30.27
Cybersecurity
Digital Disruption 30.05
Digital Transformation
Emerging Technology
HR 30.04
Leadership 31.00
Management 38.85
Marketing
Privacy
Procurement 31.92
Risk Management 37.25
Startups
Supply Chain 36.57
Sustainability

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Automotive
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Industrial Machinery & Components
Insurance
Manufacturing
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Retail

Publications & Experience

14 Article/Blogs
The Question Your Board Isn't Asking About Human Capital, Its Importance to the Supply Chain, and Your Uncertainty Strategy
Linkedin
June 12, 2026
We map suppliers. We map facilities, ports, lanes, and single points of failure. We rarely map people, their contributions, and the roles they play as human capital.

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Tags: Leadership, Risk Management, Supply Chain

Keeping Shipping Afloat
Spof Blog
August 11, 2020
250,000 seafarers are stuck at sea at increasing risk of physical and mental exhaustion. The numbers are staggering and growing. Here’s a brief rundown of the exposure

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Tags: Supply Chain, Risk Management

COVID-19 HR/Workplace Regulations to consider.
linkedin
March 04, 2020
In an effort to help one another navigate through volatile times, I thought I'd share the following list of workplace regulatory considerations. No need for an e-mail address or firstborn. The list should be part of a comprehensive pandemic/epidemic planning process that consists of economic, social, health, and jurisdiction activities.

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Tags: HR, COVID19

Shifting Supply Chains: Are today's​ risk strategies and programs up for the challenge?
linkedin
June 26, 2018
Supply chains will shift, will the organizations risk programs and strategies keep pace?

Facing the prospect of a 31% EU tariff, Harley-Davidson must choose between a $2000 per unit or bike increase or dramatically reduce production costs. Of course, Harley-Davidson is not alone. The food, drug, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, automotive, mineral and mining, and energy industries all face a similar challenge. The profitability implications of the global trade wars are being driven by a variety of geopolitical actions such as tariffs, taxes, banning products, social media propaganda that aim to shift sentiment, and contractual and permitting obstacles (delays). All these actions impact the supply chain, forcing leaders to seek reliefin their supply chains. For Harley-Davidson, it could result in a shift in manufacturing operations from the U.S. to the EU.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Supply Chain, Management, Business Continuity

Time to rethink risk in the supply chain?
LinkedIn
June 23, 2018
Beer, CO2, chicken, fuselage, pallet, whiskey, and drug shortages are keeping Executives up at night!

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Tags: Supply Chain, Risk Management

How many CIOs are prepared to do this?
Linkedin
September 18, 2017
"The CIO of a major bank was frustrated by an obstructionist EVP who refused to support Corporate Risk Management policy. He walked into the Private Banking EVP’s office and dropped a huge printout on his desk. The CIO stated, ‘‘Here is a list on the Internet of all of your Private Banking customers, their balances and personal information such as address and phone numbers.’’ The EVP saw the end of his career. The CIO then proceeded to ask, ‘‘What did you do to protect the identities of your most precious asset?’’ Such a breach of security would put this company out of the private banking business. The EVP looked up and said ‘‘I thought that was your job.’’ The CIO expected this response, shook his head and said, ‘‘No, it’s your job.’’ What he meant was that he was the custodian of the information and most impacted by any failure. The EVP got the message (enlightenment time) and became a risk management champion. A risk management program was implemented at every level of the organization. P.S. the stack of paper was blank!! Point made. "

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Tags: Risk Management

Resilience: An Incomplete Business Objective?
Linkedin
July 24, 2017
Are you satisfied with your current supply chain risk and resilience program? ... I didn't think so, or at least that's what Business Executives are saying. This is why my team and I have developed a workshop about risk and executing at the intersection of supply chains and markets.

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Tags: Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain

Is Value Overrated?
Linkedin
March 07, 2017
The concept of “value” is not the same for everyone. But it raises some interesting discussion points, and I would like to provoke some thoughts about those points.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Risk Management, Supply Chain

Principle 3: Markets Move Fast, Organizations Do Not
Linkedin
February 23, 2017
Do you leverage the opportunity that uncertainty provides? Do you leverage uncertainty to gain market advantage by

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership

Is “Value Analysis” the Correct Risk Measurement?
Linkedin
February 16, 2017
It's been a few weeks since the release of my latest book, “Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In.” http://bookstore.archwaypublishing.com/Products/SKU-001085079/Uncertainty-Advantage.aspx

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Tags: Analytics, Leadership, Risk Management

Just Released! Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In
Linkedin
January 18, 2017
Turning Uncertainty Into Growth, Innovation and Value
A thought provoking book on how leaders transform uncertainty into clear and distinct market advantage. Learn about the uncertainty transformation and how leaders create new products and revenue streams, improve margins through more efficient allocation of risk investments, and provide distinct market advantage via greater speed to market. Enabled by a market driven mindset and made possible with deep uncertainty insight, capabilities and competencies, this book begins the journey into unleashing value through investment in risk and uncertainty.

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Tags: Leadership

Preview the "Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In"
Linkedin
September 09, 2016
Leaders navigate uncertainty, managers manage risk. “Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In” will change the way you think about risk. A must read for both growth leaders and business executives, discover how to navigate uncertainty to gain market advantage.

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Tags: Leadership, Risk Management

Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In
Linkedin
July 30, 2016
Almost here! After three years of research and a decade of application and practical lessons an exciting new book will be released in early November.

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Tags: Leadership

Uncertainty Advantage@the intersection of market & decision-maker not the crosshairs of ops & risk
Linkedin
August 21, 2015
Uncertainty. Market advantage or necessary evil?

Wrapping up 3 years of research and writing and a decade of applied practices. Targeted to be released 4th quarter of 2016. Leadership lessons exposed to help growth leaders gain the advantage! Uncertainty is navigated, not managed. Hear from industry leaders. Change the mindset, focus the investments and unleash the opportunity.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Risk Management

1 Author Newsletter
The Question Your Board Isn't Asking About Human Capital, Its Importance to the Supply Chain, and Your Uncertainty Strategy
Linkedin
June 12, 2026
Most leaders will read that as a climate headline. It isn't. It's a supply chain and human capital design flaw, an uncertainty-strategy question, and it belongs in the boardroom.

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Tags: Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain

4 Books
Uncertainty Advantage
Amazon
February 03, 2026
Uncertainty Advantage fundamentally reframes how leaders should think about disruption, arguing that uncertainty is the primary source of competitive advantage in modern markets. When crises emerge, value doesn't disappear; it redistributes to those who detect shifts earlier, decide faster, and act while competitors are still in analysis paralysis.

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Tags: Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain

Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In
Archway
January 12, 2017
Turning Uncertainty Into Growth, Innovation and Value. A thought provoking book on how leaders transform uncertainty into a clear and distinct market advantage. Learn about this uncertainty transformation and how leaders create new products and revenue streams, improve margins through more efficient allocation of risk investments, and provide distinct market advantage via greater speed to market. Enabled by a market driven mindset and made possible with deep uncertainty insight, capabilities and competencies, this book begins the journey into unleashing value through investment in risk and uncertainty. "Uncertainty Advantage: Leadership Lessons for Turning Risk Outside-In" chronicles the decade long journey of leaders who have been able to transform risk into market advantage. The book provides:
Case studies on companies such as John Hyundai, Starbucks, Trumpf, Roche, and Intel
Five "Uncertainty Advantage" principles
A decade of application research and interaction with dozens of companies and growth leaders who prove that pursuing a market driven strategy to navigating uncertainty will gain measurable market advantage.

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Tags: Leadership, Management, Supply Chain

Single Point of Failure: The Ten Essential Laws of Supply Chain Risk Management
Wiley
October 13, 2009
Over the past decade organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, exceptional service, and more recently – increased environmental and social consciousness. The organization’s weapon of choice to address this increasing demand has been the supply chain. However, as the supply chain footprint changed (e.g. outsourcing, off-shoring and customer/vendor empowerment) so did the organization’s exposure to uncertainty. Organizations were taken by surprise since this exposure was unanticipated, complex and beyond their ability to manage. As customers become more demanding and change occurs at an even greater pace, supply chain risk continues to propagate like a parasite. Organizations and societies are at much greater risk of systemic failure because of the massive interdependency throughout global supply chains. The priority now is two-fold; play catch-up and address these massive gaps while deploying more intelligent and integrated strategies (i.e. social aware, instinctive, dynamic and predictive) for dealing with continuous change.
Single Point of Failure: The 10 Essential Laws of Supply Chain Risk Management uses analogies and dozens of case histories to describe the risk parasite that infects all supply chains while revealing methods to neutralize that parasite. The book addresses the questions: What are the "single points of failure"? How exposed are customers, investors, other stakeholders and ultimately the organization? What is the measurable impact (i.e. brand, financial, strategic, and non-compliance)? Who establishes the "risk paradigm"? How does the organization efficiently and effectively allocate precious resources - time, people, management attention, and capital? How is success measured? This book is both technically powerful and effectively realistic, based on today's complex global economy.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, Risk Management

At Your Own Risk: How the Risk-Conscious Culture Meets the Challenge of Business Change
Wiley
May 31, 2008
Based on over thirty years of experience, recognized industry leader Gary Lynch reveals in this essential guide a game plan to identify and manage a range of risks faced in this brave new globalized world of changing market dynamics and complex high-tech value networks. This groundbreaking book articulates an experienced-based and spot-on assessment of risk management realities that all corporations should make core to their corporate cultures.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Management, Risk Management

1 Executive
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Robert H. Smith School of Business
October 01, 2025
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate; full-time, part-time, executive and online MBA; MS in business; MFin; PhD; and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community.

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Tags: Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain

1 Founder
Uncertainty Advantage Corp
Uncertainty Advantage
January 01, 2023
Disruptions – geopolitical, weather, technological, natural hazards, health – can impact a high-value supply chain. Our mission is to ensure that despite these disruptions, organizations can deliver products to their consumers under all circumstances.

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Tags: Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain

1 Media Interview
Gary S. Lynch talks Supply Chain: Books, Risks and Firefighting
Supply Chain Pioneers
November 07, 2023
Gary is founder and CEO of Uncertainty Advantage Corp and it is named after one of his books. Gary has more than 30 years of experience in cyber risk management, risk management and supply chain risk management and a true expert of the craft.In this podcast we talked about:- Why he doubled down on supply chain risk management- Consulting the US Government- Key findings in his books and the process of authoring- What keeps his passion going- Firefighting and a lot more. A really insightful discussion sprinkled with lots of throwbacks to previous disasters and how companies have or have not dealt with them properly. Also it is the longest Supply Chain Pioneers episode yet!You can find Supply Chain Pioneers on all podcast platforms as well as on YouTube at 'Ulf talks Supply Chain'.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Risk Management

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Supply Chain and Digital Risk Taking, Strategy Advisor, Author, Educator

Location: Based in New York Area    Fees: Negotiable/Value Based

Service Type: Service Offered

We analyze and measure disruption risk and its impact on customer expectations, profitability, product security, and 3rd party relationships. The context of our work includes the entire value or product life cycle and all related supply chain activities.
We design and leverage proprietary tools and frameworks to measure, prioritize and visualize risk activities such as the allocation of risk investments, the impact of risk to performance trade-offs, “what if” volatility scenarios, and the capability to detect, respond, and adapt to disruptive events.
We provide market, customer and industry risk advisory services for solution providers.

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