Kevin Ketels

Kevin Ketels is Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programs for the Mike Ilitch School of Business and Associate Professor of Teaching in global supply chain management. He is co-host for the Ilitch School Startup Technology Pitch Competition, faculty lead for study abroad in France and Spain, and faculty lead for the GM WSU Supply Chain Management Case Study Competition. He is the faculty advisor for Warrior Ventures, a student-run venture capital organization, and the Ilitch Business Consulting Clinic. 

For nine years, Kevin served as the CEO of KMED LLC. KMED Inventory offered health care inventory management services to hospitals and pharmacies nationally. KMED Research was a clinical research site management organization that operated clinical trials in SE Michigan on behalf of many global pharmaceutical companies.

Kevin has more than twenty-five years of corporate marketing management and agency experience at companies including Dell Financial Services in Round Rock, Texas, and State Street Corp in Boston, Massachusetts. Kevin was President of Kyrris Marketing, a strategic marketing and communications agency in midtown Detroit, with special focus on the healthcare industry. Kyrris offered strategic planning, research, creative, digital marketing, advertising, public relations and program management services. Kevin was twice elected to the Grosse Pointe Woods City Council. 

Professional experience

• Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs, Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University, 2023 - present
• Associate Professor, Teaching, Lecturer and part-time faculty, Global Supply Chain Management and Marketing, Wayne State University, 2007 – present 
• President, Kyrris Marketing, 2015 – 2020
• CEO, KMED LLC, 2006 – 2015
• Senior Marketing Manager, Dell Financial Services, 2003 – 2006
• Marketing and Sales Communication Manager, Assistant Vice President, State Street Corp, 1999 – 2002
• Marketing Coordinator, Aquarius Productions, 1998-1999
• Program Associate, Michigan 4C Association, 1994-1996

Memberships

• MAHRMM (Michigan Association of Healthcare Resource and Materials Management) Board Member, January 2022 - present