Sad news. I don’t always keep up with the subjects of my reviews, and today I was very saddened to learn that David Kaye passed away more than a year ago. David Kaye was the author of Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain, a book I reviewed on this blog some 18 months ago. David Kaye was a leading author, lecturer, examiner and workshop leader on risk management and business continuity subjects. He guided a diverse range of companies and public sector organisations on risk related issues around the world. His book was a great inspiration to me when I read it and it will continue to be so in the future.
A brief encounter
Actually, David found me before I found him. After finding my blog he contacted me last Spring me and offered me a copy of his book for review, which I gladly accepted. It was a book that I really liked, because I wrote this:
This book shows you how to deal with supply chain risks. It is not a book in self-assessment, it is not a workbook, nor a guideline, but it highlights many if not all issues surrounding supply chains, risks, and business continuity. I for one did not see any ground left uncovered. This book makes you think, and want to act, and I guess that is the whole purpose of the book in the first place.
David must have enjoyed my review of Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain very much, because the publisher decided to link to it from the official book page. We continued to exchange a couple of e-mails over my review, but then it all went quiet. Now I know why.
Public sector supply chain
In one of his e-mails he said that he was working on a paper on supply chain exposures within the public service and local authorities in particular, with Zurich Financial Services sponsorship, and it was on Zurich Financial’s website that I learned of David’s passing. You see, I had a link to his homepage from my book review, and today I noticed that the link wasn’t working. Using Google I found David Kaye’s biography at the Zurich website, telling me of his much too early death. He must have had time to finish the paper, though, because it can be found at the Zurich website, and it is a paper well worth reading.
The wine we never drank
In his last e-mail David said that
I look forward to meeting you one day and putting the world of supply chain risk to rights over a coffee or a glass of wine!!”
It’s a pity we never got around to doing that, but I will think of David the next time I sit down to enjoy a glass of wine.
Links
- husdal.com: Managing Risk and resilience in the Supply Chain
- bsigroup.com: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
- zurich.com: Public sector supply chain: risks, myths and opportunities
