Speaker Q&A

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• Kim Denney
  Kim Denney is the president of Air Liquide America, and Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. subsidiary of this leading international organization that serves more than 15,000 customers, with 4,500 US employees and over 100 plants. The company supplies industrial gases and related services to a variety of industries including companies in the automotive, chemicals, food and beverage, and healthcare industries.
• Alan Milliken
  Alan Milliken is a member of BASF Corporation’s Business Process Solutions group. Alan has over 20 years experience in manufacturing including production, logistics, quality & process control, industrial engineering, operations planning, and operator training. During the past 12 years he has served as a business consultant and educator specializing in supply chain & operations management. He holds an engineering degree from Auburn University and an MBA from Clemson University.
• Chris O'Brien
  As Director of the Responsible Purchasing Network, at the Center for a New American Dream, Chris works with institutional purchasers to advance socially and environmentally responsible procurement. In his dozen years of corporate responsibility experience he served as Director of the Co-op America Business Network and the Fair Trade Federation. He is part-owner of Seven Bridges, the world's only supplier of organic and fair trade beer-brewing and coffee supplies. O’Brien is author of the book Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World and is working on a book about sustainability and coffee.
• Craig Long
  Craig Long is Vice President, Quality and Six Sigma, for Milliken & Company. In this role, he is responsible specifically for Six Sigma deployment, Milliken Product Management Improvement, and Milliken Performance System. He has held positions of increasing responsibility for Milliken since 1974, so he knows the company very well. He first joined Milliken in the Gainesville Plant, holding assignments of increasing responsibility from Industrial Engineer trainee to Industrial Engineer and Industrial Engineering Manager.
• Stephen Crane
  Steven is responsible for the development, implementation, and management of integrated supply chain planning and execution for the Global Performance Polymers Business, which includes demand and supply planning, minimizing procurement costs, maximizing asset utilization, sourcing optimization, and overall supply chain performance. He began his career at Air Products in 1980 in Polymers R&D. After holding numerous technology management positions, he moved into supply chain management in 1995. Since that time he has worked primarily on the development and implementation of supply chain operations such as Network Design, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) applications. He is currently the Global Process Owner for the Demand Management process at Air Products.
• Lawrence Cresci
  Lawrence Cresci serves as the Director of Global Supply Chain Operations for The Dow Chemical Company. He is responsible for leading the on-site and off-site supply chain operations for the company, and is responsible for the functional excellence, safety, security, service, cost, and investments of these operations.
• Stuart Agler
  Stu Agler is currently the Manager, Logistics Process Improvement for ExxonMobil Chemical Company and spent the first half of his career in finance and planning roles in different parts and locations of Mobil's Chemical business. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, Stu moved to Singapore to take on first regional, and then global responsibility for sales and marketing activities in their Basic Chemicals businesses. In 2004, Stu moved to his current role, where in addition to overseeing the Corporations rail operations, he has responsibility to identify, develop and implement best practices in the supply chain area across ExxonMobil's nine business units.
• Glynn E. Goertzen
  Glynn E. Goertzen serves as Vice President of Commercial for Pilot Chemical Company. Glynn has worked at Pilot for seven years in positions of increasing sales management responsibilities. In his current position Glynn manages Pilot's sales, marketing, customer service, supply chain and corporate accounts functions. Prior to joining Pilot Glynn worked for Kerr McGee/North American Chemical & Univar for twelve years with various sales, marketing and product management responsibilities.