After being personally mentored by Bill Bowerman and spending 27 years at Nike working in Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Korea and the United States, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin realized there wasn't a program out there that could prepare students to work in the sports product industry. Upon receiving her MBA at the UO's Lundquist College of Business, she worked alongside Roger Best to cofound the UO Sports Product Management program.

Schmidt-Devlin's expertise spans across the supply chain with direct responsibility for product development, merchandising, marketing, and manufacturing. Schmidt-Devlin's strengths include strategic planning, team leadership, project management, international business management, and government and partner company relationship building.

In 2012, she produced a documentary about Oregon track and field called We Grew Wings, which was inspired by her years as a University of Oregon track and field athlete.

• PhD, Case Western Reserve University
• MBA, University of Oregon
• BS, University of Oregon

• Manufacturing
• Marketing
• Merchandising
• Product development
• Supply chain management