Ginny Tucker is Vice-President of Procurement Solutions for Xerox Corporation. She is responsible for helping customers drive productivity and profitability to give them a competitive edge in their marketplace. She does this by leveraging Xerox Corporation process, technology, and knowledge in the procurement arena.
Ginny is a senior executive who has global experience in a variety of business areas. She has staff and line experience in sales support and service operations, finance, master data management, knowledge management, Go-To-Market & channel development strategy.
Ginny holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s College of Maryland as well as an Executive MBA from Emory University. She is also a Xerox certified Black Belt.
Robin Shahani joined American Express as Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer in April 2010. In this role, Robin is responsible for all procurement, expense management, and central supplier management activities and staff on a global basis, and is in the process of leading a major transformation of the function. As a member of the Global Business Services Leadership Team, he is directly involved in extending the scope of shared services at the Company. Robin also is a member of American Express’ Senior Management Team.
Prior to joining Amex, Robin worked at Citigroup as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Global Head of Strategy and Planning for Citi Shared Services (CSS), with oversight of nearly 5,500 staff worldwide in key aspects of finance and risk reporting, human resources, procurement, accounts payable, anti-money laundering, and general services operations, as well as right placement (location strategy). In September 2009, Robin was named Global Co-Head of Procurement, in addition to his CSS responsibilities, with a specific focus on category management, strategic sourcing, supplier performance, and financial performance across roughly $17 billion in annual spending.
Previously, Robin held various senior positions at EquaTerra, a leading independent shared services and outsourcing advisory firm, Deutsche Bank, and Silver Oak Solutions, which he founded in 1999. Robin began his career as a consultant at Mitchell Madison Group, a Summer Analyst at Morgan Stanley and H.C. Wainwright Economics, and an Intern for U.S. Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.
Robin graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He has been based in New York and London for most of his career, but has also worked extensively in Continental Europe and Asia. Robin serves on the board of directors for APEX New York, an urban education charity, and raises funds for the Children’s Health Fund, which provides healthcare to at-risk American children.
Mr. Shecterle is charged with driving Aravo's overall marketing strategies and execution. He brings over 25 years of enterprise marketing and solution management experience in supply chain solutions across industries.
Most recently, Mr. Shecterle served as Vice President, Marketing & Product Management at InfoNow, a channel performance optimization leader, advancing the company's overall strategy, marketing, and product design. Prior, Shecterle managed research practices at the Aberdeen Group for Supply Chain Management, Global Supply Management, Retail, and Sustainability, providing global market insight and analysis. He has also held executive roles in strategy, marketing, and product management at software companies such as Ariba, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Platform Computing, Indus International, and SSA, helping drive rapid revenue growth and new market expansion. Mr. Shecterle began his career in management consulting, principally at Ernst & Young, helping clients solve business process issues through the use of technology. He has been on the board of directors of the Supply Chain Council, and was named a "Pro to Know" by Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine.
Mr. Shecterle holds a BA in Business from Loyola University, Chicago.
Chris Shanahan is Vice President Global Procurement for BD, a leading global medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents and is dedicated to improving people's health throughout the world. Chris joined BD in 2000 to establish the European arm of the newly formed Company Procurement. In 2003 he established a Regional Procurement Office in Asia. In 2005, he moved to the US to lead Global Procurement Worldwide and manage BD’s spend in excess of $3.5 billion along with BD's External Supply Network. Chris is also BD’s Source to Pay global process executive. His team develops the overarching process that governs the chain of transactions from source to payment on a worldwide basis. To drive sustainable change, Chris is focused on the integration of the procurement function with the business units operating on three service delivery platforms (transactions service centers, sourcing centers and site supply services). His team and leaders from the business units are overcoming traditional barriers to connect talent, tools and processes. Before joining BD, Chris served in leadership positions in procurement, plant operations, supply chain and business development with Smith Kline Beecham Consumer.
Jim is the Vice President of Sourcing, Supply Chain & New Product Dev Governance, North America & Oceania at Bobcat Company. Here he is responsible for leading/delivering measurable/favorable business results in both Direct and Indirect purchases for Bobcat’s North American operations.
This position is accountable for a spend of $1.5 billion and managing a global manufacturing supply base of over 600 suppliers with a team of over 135 tactical and strategic sourcing/procurement professionals for 3 separate manufacturing sites in NA.
Cross functional responsibilities include working with integrated manufacturing teams and new product development. Jim is responsible for leading inventory and material management from engineering concept to line-side delivery.
Previously, he was Vice President of Global Sourcing at Purchased Parts Group and Global Supply Chain Leader at Actuant Corp.
Bob Kuzminski has been the President of Mobile Climate Control Inc. in Toronto Canada since 2008, and he also assumed the position of Group Vice President for their North America Operations in 2010. Mobile Climate Control is an international supplier of complete climate control systems for mass transit, off road, and military vehicles in the global marketplace.
Bob has in-depth expertise in driving organizational excellence initiatives, such as Lean and Six Sigma, to deliver outstanding gains to Fortune 500, public and private companies. He has held senior management roles in a number of well established manufacturing organizations including Division Manager, Imagelink Media Manufacturing at Kodak Canada Inc. and Vice President, Manufacturing Excellence at Royal Group Technologies Ltd.
Shahid Javed
Chief Procurement Officer
BP – North America Gas (NAG)
Shahid Javed joined BP Global PSCM in June 2007, and moved to NAG as Chief Procurement Officer in January, 2008. Mr. Javed is responsible for managing over $2 billion dollars in 3rd party spend, pursuing rigorous category management including creation of robust sector strategies, leading negotiations with strategic suppliers, and proactively addressing business demand and market conditions to deliver significant bottom line savings. Mr. Javed is also a member of the Global PSCM Leadership Team.
Prior to joining BP, Shahid Javed served as the Vice President - Procurement of Equity Office Properties. In this role, Mr. Javed was responsible for the creation and execution of the company’s procurement strategy, including developing and implementing policies and procedures, managing and developing national vendor contracts, and building a world-class procurement model to better leverage Equity Office’s size and scope in procuring goods and services at competitive costs.
Prior to joining Equity Office, Mr. Javed served as director of industry relations at Transora, the leading provider of business-to-business eCommerce solutions for consumer packaged goods (“CPG”) companies. In this position, he developed strategies to use technological platforms to reduce costs in the supply chain and gain operating efficiency. Mr. Javed also organized Transora’s Collaborative Procurement (Consortium) Offering, in which CPG companies participated to lower the cost for procurement of products and services.
Before joining Transora, Mr. Javed was director, procurement/outsourcing at Fort James Corporation, a paper and consumer products company, where he focused on supply chain cost reduction, examined the company’s core competencies and analyzed supplier markets to increase Fort James’ competitive advantage.
Mr. Javed received a master’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree of science in manufacturing systems engineering from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford School of Engineering, respectively. He also received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Steve Swisher has enjoyed 36 years in the Petroleum Industry in both Retail Marketing and Indirect PSCM. He attended S.U.N.Y. @ Morrisville, NY and Lone Star College in The Woodlands, TX. In 1975 Steve joined Ashland Oil (now Marathon) working in the newly created "C-Store" Division which later became Save Mart then Super America Stores. Steve supervised the operation of many gas/c-stores in NYS as Area Supervisor.
In the eighties, Steve worked as a District Manager for United Refining's Kwik Fill and Stop 'n Go Foods where he led all Marketing and Operations activities for his store groups in NY, PA and OH. In the nineties, Steve started a small business developing several retail gas and c-stores in NYS, while consulting as Director of Retail Marketing for a regional chain of stores. After selling his stores in NYS, he moved to Houston, Texas where he's held National Category Management and Brand-Advertising Management positions at Exxon Company USA, ExxonMobil and Shell Oil's Equiva Services.
Steve has worked for BP CORPORATION N.A. INC. for the last 7 years mainly in Indirect Procurement where he leads strategic Business Consulting sourcing events for the North America Group. Steve manages an offshore procurement operations team who handles tactical end to end procurement activities for about 400 sourcing engagements per year.
Nick Pappas joined Coca-Cola 11 years ago where he serves as the Global Marketing Procurement Director. He is responsible for leading the management of global marketing operations strategy, structure, tools and capabilities related to in support of approximately $1.2 billion in Direct Marketing Investment across their entire System in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America.
Nick is an accomplished senior leader with outstanding success in building and creating competitive advantage by building fully integrated businesses and leveraging the entire value chain, from supply chain to marketing execution. He’s experienced in launching and implementing new programs that result in improving ROI opportunities across the entire organization. He’s skilled in managing cross-functional and cross-geographical teams, and optimizing performance.
Mr. Donohue manages Connolly’s Commercial business which services our clients in twelve industry verticals. He brings his diverse expertise of operations management, process improvement and consulting experience to Connolly Consulting. His experience includes operations assessments, development of improvement plans and implementation management.
At SBI & Co., he helped engineer the aggregation of a number of e-business focused consulting firms including, Scient, Lante, IXL and MarchFirst into SBI, with funding support from Cerberus Capital Partners.
At Arthur D. Little, he had global responsibility for operations and information management functional practices. He served as the integration “point-person” with eleven global industry practice leaders.
With Coopers & Lybrand, Mr. Donohue was responsible for the sale, management and execution of consulting engagements involving: Manufacturing Strategy, Systems, and Operations across a variety of industries. Typical engagements entailed both planning and implementation work. His emphasis on client service resulted in multiple long-term relationships and increased client retention.
Prior to graduate school, Mr. Donohue worked in manufacturing operations for the General Motors Corporation.
Amy Joshi is Director of NA Operations at e-three where she has product management responsibility for e-Three’s Spend Visibility solution, along with overall operational delivery of e-Three’s North American business. Amy brings vast experience from FreeMarkets/Ariba, where she was Senior Manager of Spend Visibility from the product’s inception. In addition to her spend management software and services industry experience, Amy also brings vast experience in manufacturing, new product introduction, and operational excellence from companies such as Newell-Rubbermaid and GE Healthcare.
Pinar Keskinocak is an associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Associate Director of Research for the Health Systems Institute, and the co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1991 and 1992, and a Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Before joining Georgia Tech, she was with IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Keskinocak’s research focuses on supply chain management, with an emphasis on resource allocation, revenue management, auctions/pricing, due date/lead-time decisions, production planning/scheduling, and logistics/transportation. She has worked on projects in several industries including automotive, semiconductor, paper manufacturing, printing, healthcare, and airlines. She is also actively engaged in research and applications in healthcare and humanitarian logistics.
Katherine Kawamoto is the Vice President of Research and Advisory Services at the International Association for Contracts and Commercial Management (IACCM). IACCM is a worldwide non-profit association with members representing more than 4,000 organizations in over 120 countries. In her role, Katherine works with leading corporations, public and academic bodies, supporting executive awareness and understanding of the role that contracting and relationship management capabilities increasingly play in 21st century business performance and public policy. Prior to joining IACCM in 2006, Katherine was the Worldwide Director of Contract Management at NCR Corporation. She has also held leadership positions at Teradata Corporation and Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles, CA. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, researcher, thought leader, and author of articles on current contracting topics and a co-author of the Vested Outsourcing Manual.
Joseph Chang is Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business, a weekly publication covering the dynamic business trends in the chemical industry worldwide. Based in New York City, he has been with the magazine and one of its precedessors, Chemical Market Reporter, for 11 years. Starting out as Financial Editor, Joe has and continues to cover the financial beat, from mergers and acquisitions, to the credit environment, to shareholder value issues and executive strategy. He manages a dedicated magazine staff of 10 editors in New York, London and Singapore, but also draws from the expertise of around 100 ICIS editorial staff across the globe – including Houston, Mumbai and Shanghai.
Joe has a Bachelors degree in Finance and International Business from New York University. He is married and has a dog, cat and various reptiles, amphibians and aquatic animals.
Norbert Ore has extensive experience as a supply chain leader in Fortune 500 companies. He has served companies in various industries including consumer products, paper, packaging, building materials and construction. His mission in each instance has been the transformation of the business through process improvement and cost management.
In 1996, he was asked by the Institute for Supply Management to chair its Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, a volunteer position which gives him responsibility for compiling, writing, and releasing the ISM Report on Business®, the monthly report recognized as a leading indicator of the U.S. economy.
As spokesperson for the Manufacturing Report, he is frequently quoted in the business press, and regularly appears on the national TV and radio networks. Additionally, he is a frequent speaker on the subjects of negotiation, contracts, and strategic supply relationships. Ore is the 2007 winner of the prestigious J. Shipman Gold Medal presented by the Institute for Supply Management for leadership and service to purchasing and supply management.
He holds an undergraduate degree in business and a master’s in organizational management. He resides in Atlanta.
Brian K. Bancroft is the Senior Director, Indirect Procurement for Kellogg Company, leading the global sourcing and contracting efforts for all non-manufacturing related spend. Prior to joining Kellogg he was the Vice President, International Operations & Chief Procurement Officer for Oil-Dri Corporation of America located in Chicago, IL. As an Executive Officer of this Company he led their global Procurement and Material Management functions as well as their business operations located in Canada and Western Europe. Throughout Mr. Bancroft’s 20+ year career he has held a variety of Supply Chain roles with Sara Lee Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company and Glaxo Smithkline.
Mr. Bancroft holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from St. Joseph's University and a Master's in Business Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Born in Guam and raised in Philadelphia, PA he moved to the Battle Creek, MI area earlier this year with his wife of 19 years, Jacqueline, and his two children Jack (9) and Gabrielle (13).
D.C. (Skip) Handley is Manager of Corporate Procurement at L-3 Communication. He has over 20 years of experience in supply chain management including General Dynamics, Loral, and Lockheed. Skip can be reached at (858) 694-7799 or at Damon.Handley@L-3com.com.
Pete Connelly is Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer for Leggett and Platt, Incorporated, a $4.5 billion diversified manufacturer with 200 factories worldwide. His previous engineering, operations, and purchasing experience was at Xerox, Alcon Laboratories, and Trinity Industries in Zurich, Switzerland. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree, MBA, MA, and Doctorate from Columbia University, and a Masters degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary.
Wally Krey is President of Leggett & Platt Global Services (LPGS). LPGS is an internal business unit that manages the international sourcing, purchasing, customs compliance and accounts payable components of Leggett & Platt (LEG on the NYSE). As a division of Corporate Purchasing, LPGS acts as an internal service currently supporting over 100 L&P business units which have a wide range of product diversity. He is headquartered in Chicago with sourcing offices in north and south China, Vietnam, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
LPGS was established under Wally’s guidance to support L&P’s international business transactions, specifically specializing in product being imported across any US border. LPGS has experienced spend growth of 12 – 30% each year for the past 10 years. Prior to starting LPGS, Wally was Vice President of Operations for another L&P business unit which under his direction made the transformation from a domestic manufacturer with four sites to an international importing distributor. Prior to joining L&P, Wally was the senior manager of two green grass manufacturing start ups and a third in plant facilities. He holds degrees in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering and Business.
Mike Maris is the global leader and Senior Director for Motorola’s Industry Solutions group, leading the Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics vertical. Mike has more than 25 years in the supply chain industry, concentrating on transportation & logistics, distribution, and manufacturing operations. Prior to joining Motorola, Mike’s professional experience includes Vice President and Chief Operating Officer positions with leading Supply Chain Management software companies. Additionally, he managed distribution center operations for a large Midwest retailer. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry trade show, user group meetings, executive conferences, and was most recently named to the 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘Pros to Know’.
Jennifer Anglehart is the Manager of Learning & Development at MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV), a global packaging leader, located in Richmond, Virginia. Jennifer is a Human Resources Professional who specializes in Learning and Organizational Development. She has over a decade of experience in instructional design, facilitation, developing learning strategies, coaching, and management.
Prior to joining MWV, Jennifer worked as an Independent Learning & Development Consultant in several industries including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and financial services. In 2007 and 2008, MWV was nominated for the R. Gene Richter Award based on the accomplishments and merits of their Learning and Development program.
Jennifer earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Communications and Business Administration from the State University of New York College at Brockport and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Human Resources Management from the University of Richmond.
John Inabnit, CPA, CIRM has over 23 years of supply chain, finance and global sourcing experience with a wide variety of industrial and consumer product organizations. He currently leads the global sourcing and procurement functions of Newell Rubbermaid’s Office Products business unit supporting the Sharpie, Expo, Prismacolor, and Papermate writing brands. Additionally, Mr. Inabnit was the “Procure to Pay” business process and architect lead for Newell’s successful SAP and SRM implementation. Mr. Inabnit has led sourcing organization transformations with particular emphasis on organizational development, supply chain design and lean conversions, supplier development, LCC sourcing, E-sourcing and procurement, supplier innovation and new product development, category strategy development, and supplier scorecards. Before coming to Newell Rubbermaid, Mr. Inabnit worked for Danaher, Ingersoll-Rand, and Deloitte Touche in varied supply chain, purchasing, and financial roles. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and his MBA from Wake Forest University. He is currently a Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina.
Andrew Charles is responsible for the procurement and logistics functions for Performance Fibers in the United States and Mexico. To his current role, he brings more than 16 years of procurement and supply chain experience with The Home Depot, HD Supply, Dupont and Alcatel. Mr. Charles has experience sourcing most indirect categories in addition to direct sourcing of electronics and petrochemicals. He is based in Huntersville, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Mike Jarrett is vice president of supply chain at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona. He does not have a traditional supply chain background. His career in the defense industry includes a variety of positions in manufacturing, engineering, product operations and program management. Interestingly, all of these positions intersect with supply chain because Raytheon’s business model relies heavily on suppliers for the production of our components and subsystems.
This experience helped Mike understand the importance of the supply management function and its impact on the business. Mike’s goal when he accepted the position to lead supply chain at Raytheon Missile Systems in 2008 was to transform the organization to provide full-service support to our programs and to become a competitive discriminator for our business.
He has done so by to broadening the skills within supply chain and by improving integration with the other business functions. He has infused his organization with personnel possessing broad, nontraditional supply chain backgrounds that, when teamed with our traditional talent and other functions, can rise to meet the complex challenges present in today's business environment. Currently, more than 50 percent of his leadership team has nontraditional supply chain background.
Kevin Lyons, Ph.D., is the director of purchasing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and is a research professor in supply chain environmental management and archeology also at Rutgers.
Lyons is responsible for all procurement and contracting for the institution and also conducts research on developing and integrating global environmental, social, economic, ethical criteria and data into supply chain/procurement systems and processes. His work includes environmentally preferable products and services research, designing and implementing local, national and international environmental economic development systems, waste-to-energy systems and environmental and sustainable social policy and financial impact forecasting (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley Environmental Impact Reporting).
Jason Busch is passionate about how companies, governments and individuals manage, spend and save money. While his forte is writing and speaking about procurement, politics and economic issues, Jason has significant firsthand experience creating and launching new products and solutions in the supply chain and sourcing sectors. Throughout his career, he's also helped hundreds of companies save money through strategic sourcing and related initiatives, including finding the right technologies to kick their organizations into overdrive.
Jason's main focus at the moment is building Spend Matters, Spend Matters UK/Europe and MetalMiner into the world's top procurement, supply chain and commodity management resources. Launched in the fall of 2004, Spend Matters was the industry's first blog, but has since grown into the largest media and research site in the sector and the anchor property of a portfolio of sites. At Spend Matters, Jason personally covers a range of technology research areas including services procurement, P2P systems, supplier management / supply risk management, strategic sourcing and commodity management. Jason also serves as Managing Director of Azul Partners, a holding company with ownership interest in Spend Matters and other portfolio sites and organizations.
Christine is the Global Director of Talent Sourcing and Campus Relations at SPX Corporation since 2005, where she develops and executes strategies that support and drive SPX’s talent sourcing and acquisition efforts. She partners with more than 18 business unit presidents and human resources leaders across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Her team implements and executes workforce management strategies to ensure that SPX has the talent in place to achieve its strategic business objectives. Christine has established an innovative talent sourcing team from the ground up.
In addition to leading talent sourcing and acquisition, she is responsible for campus relations and recruitment at top tier universities in North America, Europe, and Asia. She is also the program manager of SPX’s enterprise Human Resources Rotational Program and Engineering Development Program.
Brad is a 23-year business operations veteran with specific emphasis in Purchasing, Finance, Operations, Change Management and Process Re-engineering. Knowledge and experience industries including insurance, retail, banking, hospitality, personnel management, and government administration. Most recently, he was State Chief Procurement & Administrative Officer, Dept. of Administrative Services at the State of Georgia, where he managed a staff of nearly 300 professionals in one of state government’s most vital executive agencies. The Department of Administrative Services is charged with providing critical business solutions and services to the state’s efficient operation, encompassing a broad spectrum that includes Risk Management, Fleet Management, Procurement, Surplus Property and Document Services. Brad identified $173 million in savings opportunities within first 18 months of his tenure. He was responsible for $5 Billion in annual enterprise-wide purchasing volume and he developed a new organizational structure featuring commodity & service expertise composed of 70 high-level purchasing professionals and related support staff. He also implemented the ""Team Georgia Marketplace"", a comprehensive E-Procurement system solution with purchasing throughput of $1.6 Billion in first year
John P. Campi is the founder and Managing Partner for the Genesis Management, LLC, an organization specializing in supply chain and cost management initiatives. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer of Global Sourcing for Chrysler LLC where he was responsible for all worldwide purchasing and supplier quality activities.
Mr. Campi has extensive experience in the field of cost management and is recognized as a founder of the strategic cost-management discipline known as Activity-Based Cost Management. Before joining Chrysler, he served as the Senior Vice President of Sourcing and Vendor Management for The Home Depot where he led the drive for standardization and optimization of The Home Depot Global Supply Chain.
Prior to joining The Home Depot, he served as Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer for Du Pont Global Sourcing and Logistics. Previous to joining DuPont, Mr. Campi also led the Global Sourcing activities for GE Power Energy (previously GE Power Systems). Additionally he has also held a variety of positions within the automotive industry - beginning his career at Federal Mogul before joining Parker Hannifin Corporation, and as a consultant to manufacturing and distribution organizations at Price Waterhouse.
John Lukow is Director of Strategic Procurement for the Manitowoc Company’s North American Crane Division. He joined the company in 1999 and has held executive positions in both finance and sales promotion. Most recently, he was MD of Manitowoc Australia. He has also been vice president of sales and marketing for National Crane and vice president of finance and treasurer for Grove and group controller for Manitowoc in the Americas region
Melissa Drew PMP, is currently a Senior Consultant with The Shelby Group. Formerly with organizations such as ATKearney, Estee Lauder and American Express, she has over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between process efficiencies and technology throughout the Source-to-Pay space to provide sustainable results including: the Supplier Management Life Cycle, Risk Management, Sourcing, Contracts, Invoice, etc. Ms. Drew is a mentor / advisor to several small businesses, served on the WPEO Diversity Certification Committee, and speaks periodically at conferences such as ISM and ProcureCon. Currently, Ms. Drew is working at the Shelby Group, Inc. sharing her expertise with fortune 200 clients. She received her Master's degree at Auburn University.
JAIME M. BOHNKE is Vice President Global Supply Chain at Tyco International, where she is responsible for creating and leading cross-business functions, including logistics, SCM systems, supplier risk, SCM training & development and the strategic sourcing of $13 billion in goods and services. Prior to joining Tyco in 2008, Ms. Bohnke was Vice President Global Supply Chain at Westinghouse, where she reorganized the entire integrated supply chain and delivered significant cost improvement. Previously, at Raytheon, she was responsible for a 4,400 employee-based operation, which included a 900 person supply chain team. Ms. Bohnke holds active memberships in ISM, NMSDC, CSCMP, WBENC and is the Chair of Council of Logistic Management Board of Arizona State University. Ms. Bohnke earned her BA in Management and MBA from Azusa Pacific University and holds a Doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Business Policy.
Mike is a strategic thinker and has held leadership positions within the Supply Chain organizations of major corporations in the Aerospace, Defense, and Commercial Industries.
He has a vast knowledge of the interdependency of the Supply Chain. His enthusiastic focus is in Manufacturing Operations, Logistics & Procurement. He has a passion for the development of talent and understands the necessity of organizational design.
Mike’s success is the result of implementing programs and processes to increase the value in the supply chain. His contributions include strategic sourcing and the associative cost savings, analyzing corporate and business segment spend, and implementing programs to enhance supplier performance. He relies on his knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma methodologies as he develops and leads cross functional teams within varied business segments.
On a global scale his leadership has led to increased supplier performance, process rigor for analyzing spend, and the implementation of aggregation and consolidation opportunities. Teams under his leadership create programs to leverage and optimize the supply chain, including demand management governance and discretionary spend controls.
Mike is a US Navy veteran and a product of evening and weekend education opportunities He holds an Executive Master’s degree with a concentration in finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science in industrial technology and Bachelor of Science degree in business from Central Connect State University.
MARCOS SARAIVA is Global CPO at Vale, the world’s second-largest mining company with revenue of $46.5 Billion and EBITDA of $26.1 Billion in 2010. Mr. Saraiva is responsible for the strategic sourcing of $100 Billion over the next 5 years, covering all Vale’s operations and investments worldwide.
Mr. Saraiva has nearly 30 years of professional experience in different industry sectors, such as, Energy, Consumables, Steel and Mining. He held senior executive positions at Shell, Whirlpool and CSN acting as Director in Commercial, Human Resources, Engineering and Supply Chain regional and global departments.
He graduated in Electrical Engineering at Veiga de Almeida University, holds a Master in Marketing at PUC-Rio and is certificated in executive extension courses at Kellogg, FDC, INSEAD, IMD and MIT."
Randall C. Clark is a Global Senior Strategic Buyer for Volvo Group Non-Automotive Purchasing (NAP). His role is to create the procurement strategy for MRO and Packaging products and services required by the brands of Volvo Group worldwide. He is focused on the requirements of each manufacturing facility to create the process for supplier selection, negotiation, implementation and development. He has over 15 years of manufacturing experience focused on reducing cost, increasing revenue and streamlining operations through the procurement strategy. Cost containment, supplier rationalization and revenue enhancement are areas that he has contributed to several industries with strategic initiatives on a global basis.
Randall has also been featured in Purchasing magazine on several occasions regarding supplier selection, procurement strategy, and the overall distribution chain of MRO suppliers. He has served on Volvo Group NAP steering committees to develop the Strategic Sourcing Process and the Project Management Process. He is frequently asked by companies and universities to lead workshops and discussions on international business procedures.
One of his core values states that every meeting with a supplier is a negotiation. Our job in procurement is to understand the market so we can establish a fair profit margin and mutually beneficial business relationship for both buyer and seller.
Randall is a graduate of Tennessee Tech University with a B.S. degree and Elon University with an M.B.A. Degree. He currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina with his family.
Scott Dever is Managing Director, Americas Region for Xchanging Procurement Services, a leading global procurement outsourcer. Scott has over 20 years of transformational procurement leadership experience across various industries. Prior to joining Xchanging in 2009, Scott led Procurement Strategy for Motorola and oversaw procurement for the Government and Public Safety business. He has also served as head of procurement at Hewitt Associates, Sears Holdings and Hasbro, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Package Engineering from Michigan State University and earned his M.B.A. at Arizona State University. Scott serves on the boards of various charitable organizations which serve the needy both domestically and abroad.
As its President, David Davies is responsible for the oversight, development, and growth of Connolly’s Commercial Division, which consists of Contract Compliance and Accounts Payables audit practices. Prior to joining Connolly, David was the Global Managing Partner for the Energy, Utilities and Services Practice with Infosys Consulting. In this role David was responsible for the overall P & L for this practice which included a $130 million client portfolio with more than 100 consultants. He also had responsibility for Infosys’ pricing capability and has chaired the Partner selection committee. Prior to this role, he spent 15 years in the Strategy and Business Architecture practice at Accenture. His industry experience includes Oil and Gas, Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources and Information Services. He holds an MA, (with Honors), in Geology and Geochemistry and a Post Graduate Diploma, (awarded with distinction), in Petrochemical Business Management from Oxford University, Oxford, England. David is a seasoned commercial executive with a track record of both top line growth and bottom line improvement.
David Hope-Ross is Senior Director, Procurement and Supply Chain Management at Oracle. For the past six years, he has been designing and implementingthe product marketing strategy for Oracle and PeopleSoft’s procurement and sourcing applications. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Hope-Ross spent nearly 10 years at Gartner where he covered a wide range of procurement and sourcing products and services. He holds a bachelor’s of arts degree in history and area studies from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
As the Vice President, Strategic Accounts at Rearden (formerly Ketera), Mary Ellen Mitchell is responsible for sales management of new and existing strategic opportunities and customer implementation. A multi-faceted executive, Mary Ellen has a record of driving growth and profits for startups, Fortune 500 companies and high profile management consulting firms including Microsoft, Oracle, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Ernst & Young. Her diverse experience encompasses strategic sourcing, outsourcing services and procurement. Working in each of these functional areas, she has exceeded savings goals, and reduced costs both domestically and internationally. Before coming to Rearden, Mary Ellen was the Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing and Procurement for Softtek a near shore outsourcer based in Mexico. As the lead of this practice area, she was responsible for business development. Prior to Softtek, Mary Ellen served as Director of Global Strategic Sourcing for Office Depot where she developed and implemented a global sourcing function, saving the company over $150 million.
Matt Marthinson is the leader for Hubbell, Inc’s Sourcing Transformation initiative. He is responsible for Hubbell’s global effort to redesign sourcing and partner with the supply chain to take cost out. The initiative involves consolidation and leverage of $1.5B of spend for the almost 50 businesses across 3 major platforms which are primarily located in the North American region. This business centric value added team’s objective also includes enhanced and aggressive utilization of Hubbell’s ERP system which is used across 80%+ of the corporation. Matt in addition to being a former Marine has 19+ years of comprehensive business achievements and expertise in Manufacturing Operations, Production Planning, Materials Management, Procurement, Transportation and Logistics, Sourcing and Supply Chain with Honeywell, H.B. Fuller, and Alcoa before coming to Hubbell, Inc. Matt is certified as a Certified Professional in Supply Management - CPSM, Certified Purchasing Manager - C.P.M., Lean Master-TBM Institute, Six Sigma-Green Belt-Honeywell.Matt is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute of Supply Management-Carolinas/Virginia and is on the Board of Advisors for the Connecticut Association of Purchasing Managers
He is married to the former Pamela Peterson of Palm Beach, FL. He and his wife reside in Greenville, SC with their 5 children. Matt’s interests include any activity in and around water, hunting and participating in his children’s sports activities.
Lara Nichols, senior director of IT sourcing and assets strategies at Tyco International, has a strong background in technology management, business process improvements, program design, change management, global project leadership, supplier management, budgeting, risk management, financial analysis, performance metrics, regulatory compliance, and merger activities. She has held key executive leadership roles that have contributed significant value and ROI to multimillion-dollar organizations, including Fortune 200 companies. At Tyco, she is credited with founding and institutionalizing an inaugural IT supply management program. This role included both design and reengineering expertise for such initiatives as creating the company's first training program for supply management practices for IT and transforming the corporate culture to strengthen the impact of the new program. Results included a 10-50% return to the corporate bottom-line, supplier discount increases as large as 50%, and a single project operational expense reduction of more than $6 million. Previously, she was vice president/director of IT architecture competency centers and chief IT sourcing/procurement officer with Wachovia Corporation. She also held several executive and management positions in the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) of First Union Corporation.
Biju Mohan is a Senior Director with GEP with 10+ years of consulting experience in Business Strategy and Operations. He has worked extensively with senior leadership of several companies in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail industries across US, Asia and Middle East. Biju has successfully led several international engagements to achieve operational efficiencies and business goals for large organizations. He has managed global consulting programs with large multi-regional and multi-disciplinary teams. Biju completed his BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology and MBA from Indian Institute of Management. Prior to GEP, he worked with the strategy practices at Accenture and A T Kearney.
Bill Fialkosky is the head of Global Strategic Sourcing at Life Technologies. Bill is a profit driven top performer with achievements in national and international supply chain management, procurement, e-procurement and supplier relationship management across core business disciplines. With a progressive 15-year career with Applied Biosystems, Bill is a champion of company initiatives surrounding acquisitions, cost reduction and SOX controls. He has directed numerous strategies credited with reducing global inventory and improving the customer experience. Bill currently directs more than $350 million in procurement spending.
Omer is Managing Director - Americas and Chief Marketing Officer for the company. He has 20 years of management consulting, global corporate and industry experience across North America, Europe and Asia. Prior roles at various companies included A.T. Kearney (North America), Warner Lambert (USA) and The Perrier Group (Asia-Pacific). In two decades, Omer has worked with and consulted to senior executives on issues ranging from supply chain to strategy to marketing and business development. Omer has been named in Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2011 Pros to Know and has been published and quoted in a wide range of media including MIT’s Sloan Management Review, The Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Business Week, Wall Street Journal and Corporate Dealmaker. Omer has an MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.
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Jim is a 25 year supply chain veteran, both in industry and consulting. Currently conducting procurement transformation work for Infosys, Jim was previously at Accenture as a senior manager in supply chain, and StrategicSource as the director of strategic sourcing. Jim has worked extensively with offshore and nearshore teams in the procurement discipline, and across various industries including manufacturing, energy, retail, and automotive. Some of Jim’s signature work includes building an organization that saved $250 million in indirect spend for Best Buy, creating a roadmap for an SAP center of excellence at Salt River utility, and building a supply chain division for a $2 billion industrial engineering and construction firm. Currently Jim is driving transformational design at Verizon and Caterpillar. Jim’s educational credits include a BA cum laude in Government from Harvard, and a MPA from Troy State. Prior to his career in private enterprise, Jim served as an F-15 fighter pilot in the USAF, seeing combat in Desert Storm. Jim resides in the Minneapolis-St Paul region of Minnesota, and is married with two daughters.