Keith Neroutsos is an executive procurement director who has spent 17 years working in the social sector. He has a passion for brainstorming and creative solutions, and enjoys the creative dialogue among peers who share the common goal of solving complex problems.
Innovation is challenging and exciting to me.
– Keith Neroutsos
Neroutsos spent 12 years working for PATH, a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide leveraging expertise in science, health, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties.
While at PATH, Neroutsos lead the global procurement team responsible for international health program procurements, institutional procurements and field procurement technical assistance to foreign governments. He worked with companies like USAID, where he was a part of the Deliver Project which procured and distributed all of the Malaria commodities to donor countries, which he gained familiarity with the medication and devices used to fight malaria.
He has served as a technical advisor to global regulatory bodies as well as an administrator of small businesses and export compliance programs. He has worked with Malawi, Kenya, Indonesia, Columbia, Mexico, Vietnam, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana. His work at PATH brought together his interest in innovative science with his business management skills.
Malaria is the leading cause of death in Nigeria, accounting for 18-percent of all deaths and 26-percent of the mortality rate for children under the age of 5. Effective supply chains are a critical condition of success in the fight against malaria and depend on data to make sure that the right products are available in the right places at an acceptable cost. Despite recent enhancements to data capture and reporting systems in Nigeria there is still an opportunity to improve the speed and accuracy of supply chain data flows. This challenge is made more acute by the disparate malaria product supply chains across thousands of government, private and NGO clinics, pharmacies and drug shops.
The Xinova innovator team is brainstorming and testing truly innovative solutions to improve the timeliness, quality and visibility of data for the malaria supply chain in Northern Nigeria.