Marc joined Disney's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group in April 2003 to lead the EMEA Sourcing & Procurement department and since 2008, has added the Asia Pacific group. He has spent the last 7 years building up strong business partnerships with the various Disney business executives and delivering value across a broad range of categories. Prior to joining Disney, Marc was based in France where he held the role of Purchasing Director- EMEA at Invensys Process Systems, a Global Controls and Automation company. Before Invensys he has held various Procurement and Supply Chain roles in a number of industries.

David Natoff heads Google’s Global Supplier Sourcing group and has been with the company since the beginning of 2006. Based in Mountain View, California, David leads a small international team responsible for taking hundreds of millions of Dollars out to completive bid. Prior to Google, David was responsible for Purchasing Operations at Novell Inc . David has over fifteen years of experience in indirect procurement and has spent the last eleven years working in the Technology sector including a consulting role with Marrakesh, an eProcurment provider and with Visio (which was acquired by Microsoft) as their European Purchasing Manager.

 After 13 years with M&S working in stores and latterly Food Group Huw joined Asda in 1996. Although a trader at heart he has been director of Merchanding, Small stores, Format development, Commercial Director in Fresh food and Supply Director. He took up his current role in October 2009 with the brief to Centralise procurement in the business in order to drive costs down.

Working as a business consultant Christina Henriksen is responsible for all internal processes and drives all major business development initiatives within Indirect Procurement in the LEGO Group. She is currently heading up the work of creating the first Indirect Procurement Policy in the LEGO Group including the communication and change management that follows the implementation.

Christina Henriksen has rolled out Indirect Procurement’s core processes and tools on a global level and thereby played a major role in Indirect Procurement’s journey from a small local department to a global high impacting organization in the LEGO Group. Christina plays a key role in communication and change management towards both internal and external stakeholders for Indirect Procurement on a global scale.

In 2009 Christina Henriksen was the main driver of Indirect Procurement’s strategy work, which resulted in a clear vision going towards 2015 for Indirect Procurement in the LEGO Group. She also established a strong customer feedback process for continuous improvement of the Indirect Procurement organization. Christina Henriksen has been employed by the LEGO Group since 2007. She holds a master in logistics and supply chain management from the Aarhus School of Business.

During her 6 years with the LEGO Group, Lone Koch has held several positions within both direct and indirect procurement. From 2001 to 2004 primary focus was direct procurement, print & packaging category, gradually switching to indirect procurement and the marketing category. Since Lone Koch re-joined the LEGO Group in 2007 and to date her overall role is to drive strategic and tactical sourcing initiatives and develop category strategies. In addition to her present role as Sourcing Manager she is also the Category Manager for Consultancy Services. In 2008 Lone Koch successfully headed up a strategic sourcing project on management consultancy and has since then played a major role in how the LEGO Group drives value add within this category. In her current role she also is responsible for Relationship Management within the Global Marketing and Sales business area and has lately been working with creative agencies and media. In 2009 she headed up a ‘speed sourcing’ project addressing a spend of +90MEUR involving 70 of the LEGO Group’s major indirect vendors. The project delivered +10MEUR in value add. Lone Koch has over fifteen years of experience in procurement and has prior to the LEGO Group been responsible for procurement and logistics within the contractors sector including being expatriated on projects to East and West African aid projects funded by the Danish government. Lone Koch holds a Diploma Degree in Marketing from the Kolding School of Business.

Douglas Else-Jack is a member of Schindler's Corporate Purchasing management team, responsible for the Non-production Materials & Services categories along with providing eProcurement tools and directing the national purchasing organisations from a strategy and process perspective. In the past 3 years his team has won awards for Fleet Management, Outsourcing Innovation & Purchasing Development & Training. Prior to joining Schindler, in 2002, he worked in the telecommunications industry in a variety of procurement roles. He holds an MBA from EIPM (France) and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply.

Luca graduated in industrial electronics, and has worked for over 20 years in procurement management of direct, indirect materials and services spent in national and multinational companies across several market sectors (Esa Elettronica, Gewiss, Vemer, Black&Decker Power Tools, Riello Group, GlaxoSmithKline).

Luca is a speaker and chairman at national and international seminars, conferences and trainer in many supply chain management and sustainable procurement training courses. He is very active and passionate in inspiring sustainable supply chain management.

Luca is currently acting in one of the leading Italian Bank Group as Responsible for Procurement, Logistics, Health & Safety, Environmental and Security Management.

Anne Maria, or Amy, as she prefers to be called, joined Orion Pharma R&D Clinical Department 1995. She started as a CRA, moving on soon to the marketing department where she worked a couple of years in different roles in marketing of analgesics, CNS drugs and cancer drugs. In beginning of 1998 she returned to clinical research to be a lead for international, fully outsourced phase III studies outsourced to global CROs.

During the years managing the global CROs she got more interested in outsourcing and its many aspects, finally ending up working in the global In- and Outsourcing Unit at Orion Pharma Clinical R&D on 2003. At the same time she also joined the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG) and has been a member of the Committee from January 2008. These days she is leads the Global Clinical Alliances & Sourcing team at Orion Corporation Orion Pharma, and continues developing actively the general outsourcing processes. She also frequently gives presentations in international outsourcing conferences.

Alexandra Tarmo is the Head of Indirect Materials & Services EMEA for Eaton. In this role she’s responsible for directing the purchasing of all Indirect commodities within EMEA including MRO, Professional services, Facility services, Offices Services, Energy, Packaging, IT/telecom & Capital.

Prior to joining Eaton, Alexandra has built several years of purchasing and indirect purchasing with several multinational companies based throughout Europe such as DANONE & Colgate Palmolive.

Alexandra holds an MBA in Industrial Purchasing from the Bordeaux Business School and a Master’s degree in International Trading from Pau Business School.

Wolfgang Munchau, 47, is associate editor and European economic columnist of the Financial Times. Together with his wife, the economist Susanne Mundschenk, he runs eurointelligence.com, an internet service that provides daily comment and analysis of the euro area, targeted at investors, academics and policy makers.

Wolfgang was one of the founding members of Financial Times Deutschland, the German language business daily, where he served as deputy editor from 1999 until 2001, and as editor-in-chief from 2001 until 2003. FT Deutschland is now a firmly established player in the German media market with a daily circulation of more than 100,000 copies sold.

Previous appointments included correspondent posts for the Financial Times and the Times of London in Washington, Brussels and Frankfurt. He was awarded the Wincott Young Financial Journalist of the Year award in 1989. He holds the degrees of Dipl-Betriebswirt (Reutlingen), Dipl-Mathematiker (Hagen), and MA in International Journalism (City University, London).

Wolfgang has published three German-language books. His book Vorbeben, on the financial crisis, has received the prestigious GetAbstract business book award in 2008, and is now published by McGraw Hill in the US.

Guy Allen has been at Fujitsu Services for over four years, originally taking up the position of Director, Sourcing and Supply Services. In this role he had responsibility for a wide range of operations: a £300m supply chain, a data capture factory, statement print workshops as well as a sourcing budget of £1bn. The intervening 4 years saw progress across all areas, marked by 2 CIPS awards for process improvement together with a number of Highly Commended and shortlisted entries. Since the beginning of 2010, Guy has taken on a new role as VP Global Procurement, charged with establishing Fujitsu’s first global procurement capability.

Prior to joining Fujitsu, Guy spent the previous four years as Director of Procurement for Abbey National and has worked in purchasing and supply-chain roles in major blue-chip companies for more than 25 years. Although primarily involved in mainstream purchasing, he has always been interested in the opportunities provided by rapidly developing technologies and how they impact on the work place. He has designed and implemented purchasing systems for Ford, IBM and GlaxoSmithKline, where he led the introduction of world-class purchasing systems, including on line bidding, e-procurement and online training.

Julian Hooks is the Global Procurement Category Leader, for Marketing, in Johnson and Johnson.

In this capacity, Julian is tasked with providing procurement leadership for Johnson and Johnson’s marketing spends where Johnson and Johnson is a top 10 Global Advertiser (#7, 2008 Advertising Age survey). He does this through delivering outstanding procurement solutions that enhance J&J’s marketing spend efficiency and effectiveness. Julian’s role looks to build a cohesive marketing procurement community across the globe in J&J’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices and Consumer businesses.

Julian joined Johnson & Johnson’s Consumer business in 2005 and led its European Indirect Strategic Sourcing group before moving into his current Global leadership role. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, he worked for 9 years for the Mars business in a variety of Marketing, Supply Chain and Procurement roles. Julian holds a Chemistry Honours Degree from York University, UK.

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Dr Bernd Huber heads Googles global eSourcing Center of Excellence and has been with the company since the beginning of 2007. Prior to Google, Bernd was a senior consultant in the National Institute for Transport and Logistics, where he provided expertise in logistics and operations management matters. He has also worked with Audi, Bosch and other multinational organisations on IT implementation and supply chain management. Bernd's research interests are particularly based on global eBusiness adoption drivers and their impact on key performance indicators. Bernd is widely published, for example in the Journal of Electronic Markets, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal and in the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications.

Courtney joined Capital One, a Fortune 200 company specializing in consumer financial lending services, in 2004. Originally based in the U.S., she negotiated complex services and technology contracts for several lines of business, including contracts for data, data processing, software, ASP, hosting, marketing, cross-sell and outsourced services. She also counselled business lines and senior executives with respect to all areas of transaction management, including negotiation and contracting strategy and supplier risk management. In 2007 she moved to the UK to assist in transformation of the business. In her current role with Global Procurement Services, she manages a team responsible for sourcing and contracting for UK spend categories, ensuring compliance with global policies and local laws.

Courtney earned a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law and is a member of the Indiana and North Carolina Bar Associations. She also earned an M.B.A from the Kelley School of Business and a B.A from the University of Notre Dame. She currently resides in Nottingham.

Rachael Stormonth has day-to-day responsibility for all NelsonHall research. She also manages the Vendor Assessment subscription program and leads the Procurement BPO and Document Management BPO subscription programs.

Rachael joined NelsonHall in 2000, and in addition to her research management role, her recent responsibilities have included leading NelsonHall's Key Vendor Assessment program, from which she has acquired deep knowledge of the key vendors in the IT services industry. She has also worked on a variety of custom research and advisory engagements for clients.

Prior to joining NelsonHall, Rachael's previous experience included:

· Overall responsibility for client services within a leading services company

· Strategy consulting with a management consultancy

· Sales and marketing within the IT sector

· Senior management positions in the public sector.

Rachael is also a frequent contributor and commentator in the IT and business press.

Rachael's academic qualifications include an MBA (distinction) from Warwick University and a BA (Hons) from Nottingham University.

Mark Hannay has worked in a range of Supply Management roles for the past 20 years. His career in Supply Management began in the manufacturing sector and progressed into the services sector where he has worked for the past eight years. Mark has held various roles including team management, external Supply Management consultancy and account director for outsourced Supply Management services. He spent the past two and a half years working in the financial services sector where the requirements to balance service against cost and in turn stakeholder management are becoming increasingly important. Mark personally believes that excellent Supply Management delivery is focussed on ‘people engagement skills’ and the ability to influence at all levels of an organisation. The technical skill set whilst important is a given.

Sebastian Schubert is the Global Head of Indirect Procurement in Bombardier Transportation, the world's leader in rail technology. His tasks consist in leading a team of Lead Buyers as well as five regions to continuously reduce global indirect spend. Indirect spend includes all categories related to IS, Travel Management, Facility Management and Corporate Services.

Sebastian joined Bombardier Transportation’s Strategy Department in 2002. After various positions in the Corporate Procurement Department he has worked since 2007 as Lead Buyer for Corporate Services and has led the PMO for NPR Procurement. In 2009, he took over the responsibility of global NPR. Sebastian holds a Masters in Business from ESCP Europe and a doctorate degree from Halle-Wittenberg University.

BDR Thermea is a world leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative heating and hot water systems, solar and renewable energy solutions based near Amsterdam. Previously Andrew Vaughan was Group Procurement Director at Baxi Group and before that Group Director of Procurement and Supply Chain at De La Rue (CIPS award winner for Procurement in 2008). Prior to that Andrew worked as Procurement Director EMEA at Black & Decker for seven years, and prior to that he had an extensive operational and buying career with Marks & Spencer. Andrew is a regular presenter at ProcureCon, CPO Agenda and CIPS events. He is a C-Level Operator with Multilingual and Global sourcing expertise.

Kristine joined Shell in 2001 as Business Development Manager for Shell International Exploration & Production. In this capacity she worked on deal teams in pursuit of major upstream opportunities. She implemented the first cross-business, global business development team to manage Shell’s aggregate portfolio of EP business development opportunities.

Since 2003 Kristine has been leading segments of Shell’s inbound supply chain. As Vice President, Global Functions Sourcing, reporting to EVP Group Contracting and Procurement (CP), she is responsible for managing enterprise-wide spend of ~$US10B for goods and services across a range of categories including Consulting & Services, Contract Labour, Real Estate, Travel, Software, Managed Network Services, Hosting & Storage, End User Computing and R&D. This role covers global, end-to-end supply chain activities from early stage category and commercial strategy development through buying, contracting and procurement operations on behalf of Shell’s global functions and businesses. Kristine also provides executive accountability for Shell’s enterprise-wide Supplier Management Discipline.

Kristine joined IBM in 1983 as a Systems Engineer, shifting very early in her career to sales and marketing roles. She worked in a variety of Account Management roles focused primarily on large enterprises. After serving for several years as Client Executive for a major Oil & Gas client she turned her sights to marketing, assuming the role of eBusiness Solutions Executive targeting internet-based solutions for the global petroleum industry. In 2000 she joined Quaris, Inc, a start-up company serving the oil and gas industry, as Vice President, Marketing & Sales.

Kristine obtained a BS, Civil Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She enjoys adventure travel and outdoor sports such as cycling, skiing, golf and fishing.

Moray Reid leads our Supply Chain and Procurement Offerings and Sales within Europe. Moray has been with IBM for over 20 years and in thattime has performed various operational management roles in IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing -- including leading the move of European Manufacturing to China -- and HR. His experience spans Europe, The Americas and Asia and includes Procurement and SCM consulting, Process Re-engineering in a Shared Services environment with both private and public sector clients, Solution Design, Contract Support, Business Development and Sales.

Larry is currently at BAA as their Interim Procurement Director. BAA operates Heathrow and five other UK airports, the total expenditures across the business both Opex and Capex is in excess of £2.8Bp.a. Prior to BAA, Larry was Purchasing & Supply Chain Director (their first Purchasing Director) at Severn Trent Water and has also worked for Esab, Ford, Fiat, and MG Rover. He is also a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Purchasing & Supply.

In his current role Stefan Gartenmaier assumes responsibility as Head of Corporate Procurement for Indirect Materials and Services for the adidas-Group.

In 2001 Stefan joined the IT Department of the adidas-Group. As of 2005 he did run the IT Vendor Management. His prior experience includes various consulting roles with Deloitte, IMB/Sercon and Rhône Poulenc. He started his carreer in the chemical industry while working for Hoechst AG, a former german chemical mulitinational.

Interested in Processes and Systems for Supply Chain Management and the Area of Indirect Spend

Stefan was educated at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Patric Petit Belleville is Group Purchasing Director General Expenses and IT Services (GE&ITS) for the Thales Group. With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales is a global technology leader for the aerospace, space, defence, security and transportation markets.

His main responsibilities are detailed below:

- Manage existing GE&ITS Shared Services (France and UK)
- Create new GE&ITS Purchasing Shared Services
- Create and deploy global consistent sourcing strategy on the GE&ITS segments

Patric joined Thales 3 years ago after 10 years of Purchasing for the affiliate of an American Company in France. He graduated from INSEEC (Business School) in Bordeaux.

Patric’s areas interest include Purchasing Shared Services, Segment strategy from global conception to local deployment, and people management, staff development, team empowerment in a multicultural environment.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Global eProcure, Subhash has been instrumental in guiding Global eProcure into one of the fastest growing technology, consulting and outsourcing companies in the U.S. By building a cohesive global leadership team, simplified technology, a list of Fortune 500 companies as customers, Subhash has been able to build a “beautiful” company that has won several awards for its profitable growth and technology including Inc 500 & Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards. For his efforts, Subhash was recognized as one of the finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Prior to co-founding Global eProcure, Subhash led strategy, supply chain, Procurement and global outsourcing engagements for Fortune 500 companies at Accenture. Before joining Accenture, Subhash worked at Hoechst Celanese.

Subhash earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic University, an MBA with highest honors from the University of Chicago, and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. His undergraduate degree is from the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Bombay. He also holds three US Patents.