FMU School of Business honors Mullinax with 2025 Outstanding Alumni Award

Francis Marion University’s School of Business honored Hope Mullinax with the 2025 Morgan B. Coker Outstanding Alumni award at its annual alumni reception held at the School of Business/School of Education Building on FMU’s main campus Wednesday evening.

Mullinax currently serves as the NAM Cluster Director at Schneider Electric. In this role, she oversees operations in Mexico, Canada, and the United States, where her scope of work includes developing procurement strategy, ensuring compliance to company policies and goals, addressing escalations or disruptions in the supply chain, and mentoring and developing future leaders.

Prior to her position at Schneider Electric, Mullinax was the Head of Supply Chain-Americas at Sterlite Technologies, where she was instrumental in creating a global logistics, sourcing, and inventory strategy for a startup fiber optics cable facility in South Carolina. She has also held key positions at Otis Elevator, Trane Technologies, and ESAB Welding & Cutting.

Throughout her career, her core strengths in leadership, process improvement, project management, and supply chain have earned her the reputation as a collaborative and results-driven professional. Her strategic vision and pursuit of improvement has led companies to significant costs savings and optimized global supply chains. 

A native of Latta, S.C., Mullinax received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Supply Chain Management from FMU in 2012 and the Master of Business Administration from the university in 2020.

The Morgan B. Coker Outstanding Alumni Award is named for Morgan Coker, the first dean of FMU’s School of Business. This award is one of the top honors that can be bestowed upon a graduate of the school.