Volker has been with Exel for seven years, and has been devoted to Life Sciences third party logistics for the last 12. On the business development side of his split role, Volker manages Exel's North American businesses with Novartis and Pfizer. And in his strategic planning role, Volker leads product and new business development which have taken Exel into three new domains since his arrival, transforming Exel from its consumer healthcare focus of 2005. He leads all special projects and is currently developing sector plans for specialty pharma and hospital logistics.

Volker came to Exel from Kuehne Nagel, where he last served as VP of Healthcare Business Development for North America. Prior to K+N, he spent most of his time in sales and product management roles, serving early stage companies in the medical device and technology sectors.

He earned an MBA and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from RPI. He earned his BS from the University of Virginia, graduating first in his engineering class.

John DiPalo, the COO for Acsis Incorporated, leads the development of the next generation of products for Acsis. Working in close consultation with some of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors, John will ensure that their best practices are incorporated into the Acsis’ product roadmap.

John has more than 25 years of process and systems analysis and design experience. Over his career John has implemented many manufacturing and warehousing systems across multiple ERP, midrange and client server environments.

While at Acsis, John has served in a number of technology and customer facing positions. Most recently John served as Senior Vice President of Product Development and previously, Vice President of Solutions Engineering. Prior to joining Acsis in 1998, John was with Deloitte Consulting as a team lead for their SAP Integration product group as well as the director of SAP consulting for both IMI Systems and IntelliCorp Corporation.

Joe Olson serves as a Senior Vice President and Global Practice lead for RedPrairie. Joe first joined RedPrairie over two decades ago and has held numerous positions in our product and service organizations including General Manager for the Life Sciences and CPG business unit and Vice President of Development responsible for all supply chain products. Joe lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three children and two dogs.

Matt Deep brings more than 15 years of experience working with WMS and related systems. He started his career in 1997 as a technical consultant with TRW. While his industry focus has been pharmaceutical and health care, he has extensive experience in the electronics, retail and automotive industries. Having implemented solutions in 10 countries, Matt has earned a reputation with his customers for designing elegant and user friendly solutions. Matt has an Industrial Engineering degree and MBA focusing on Supply Chain Management and Finance from Penn State University.

Roddy Martin has been working with Kinaxis since June 2012. He has worked with CCI since 2010 and before that was employed at AMR Research for 12 years as SVP, Research Fellow and Distinguished Analyst. Roddy was instrumental in building the demand –driven supply chain research and strategy team at AMR Research that operated as trusted advisors to leading global companies. Roddy has a millwright trade, engineering technicians diploma, and graduated cum laude B Sc Electrical Engineering with two final year awards from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Roddy focuses on the verticalised transformation of manufacturing and supply chains to demand-driven value networks.

Prior to AMR Research Roddy was an executive at South African Breweries ( now SABMiller) and had leadership positions in Engineering , Product Supply Strategy, IT , and Change Management .
At CCI Roddy was instrumental in building industry awareness of integrative performance improvement and supply chain change leadership leading to end to end supply chain capabilities using the TRACC product used by companies such as Heinz, Kelloggs, DuPont, SABMiller.

Rod Daugherty is the Senior Director of Product Strategy for the Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization solutions at Manhattan Associates where he oversees the product direction for these applications. For the last 18 years Rod has been a consultant, designer and product director for multiple replenishment software companies.

Prior to his career in Inventory Optimization software Rod held various positions at a 1000 store drug store retail chain first in store operations and later in merchandising. Rod’s years of firsthand experience in retail and distribution wholesale replenishment provides valuable insight into guiding the product strategy for Manhattan Associates Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization solutions.