SCMchem 2012 Speakers Included:

Ray Adams joined SAP in 2005 as a Field Services Manager for the Industry Business Unit (IBU) Chemicals. Ray has over 20 years of chemical industry experience and started his career in Polymers research. His management experience spans technical services, manufacturing, operations and supply chain. He has implemented ISO-9000, MRPII Class A, S&OP and ERP systems for multiple businesses including polymers, electronic chemicals and plastics additives.

Ray holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA degree from Santa Clara University.

Supply Chain Director at Elementis Specialties located in Hightstown, NJ

Supply Chain professional with over 25 years experience with a strong finance background with focus on supply, demand and distribution planning, customer service, purchasing, toll manufacturing and logistics linking processes and systems (SAP, Oracle-JDE and Baan)

Previously worked for Vertellus Specialties, Honeywell Electronic Materials and Rohm And Haas Co.

Mr. Barron is an IT Industry veteran and former IBM sales executive. A channel sales expert, Mr. Barron developed and managed new sales channels for IBM’s PC and mid-range computer business during a 15 year career. After leaving IBM, Mr. Barron was Vice President of Sales for a DeKalb, IL entrepreneur business Micro Solutions Corp. which he grew sales from $20M to $60M in two years through channel expansion in international distribution, e-commerce, VAR, and retail. Mr. Barron also has reseller management experience as Area Vice President and GM for Insight Direct USA (NASDAQ –NSIT) where he achieved his annual budget of nearly $500M in hardware, software, and service B2B sales. Most recently and just prior to Telular, Mr. Barron developed sales channels for EPAY Systems, a start-up SaaS business utilizing the cellular network for M2M data transmission to a cloud based service platform.

Mr. Barron is a double graduate of Northwestern University. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and an MBA from the Kellogg Executive Master’s Program. Mr. Barron served on the Board of Directors of Chicago based non-profit i.c.stars.

Adam Bevier has nearly 30 years of experience in Supply Chain, Distribution, Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Finance. He has been with Sherwin Williams for 20 years and his current assignment is managing the Supply Chain in Europe and Asia. In this role he works with integrating acquisitions, cultural opportunities, long lead time supply chains, as well as the normal supply chain challenges of customer service and inventory management

Toby Brzoznowskiis the Executive Vice President of LLamasoft, Inc. Mr. Brzoznowski has over 20 years of experience in building and growing businesses, focused on process improvement and analysis technologies. Mr. Brzoznowski’s expertise has been applied to bringing new and advanced technologies into mainstream use at global Fortune 500 businesses. In the last decade, Mr. Brzoznowski has been involved in the start-up of three Michigan-based technology companies. Mr. Brzoznowski is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a frequent presenter at supply chain and strategic sourcing events.

is the Executive Vice President of LLamasoft, Inc. Mr. Brzoznowski has over 20 years of experience in building and growing businesses, focused on process improvement and analysis technologies. Mr. Brzoznowski’s expertise has been applied to bringing new and advanced technologies into mainstream use at global Fortune 500 businesses. In the last decade, Mr. Brzoznowski has been involved in the start-up of three Michigan-based technology companies. Mr. Brzoznowski is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a frequent presenter at supply chain and strategic sourcing events.

Mr. Ciszek has been with A&R since May of 2006, and has over 20 years of supply chain experience. Previously, Mr. Ciszek was Vice President of Operations of Alliance Logistics (A&R Global Logistics). Prior to joining A&R Mr. Ciszek was Director of Transportation Management services for Meridian Logistics (formally USF Logistics). Additionally, Mr. Ciszek has worked in various supply chain management consulting roles with both Ernst & Young and United Parcel Service. Previous to his tenure at UPS, Mr. Ciszek worked on the customer side as Senior Transportation Analyst for Unisys Corporation managing 3PL services for parts distribution programs on both a domestic and international basis. Mr. Ciszek has an undergraduate degree in Business Management from University of Illinois at Chicago and an MBA from DePaul University.

David Dragon is a Senior Manager with Hitachi Consulting in the chemical industry practice. His experience includes chemical industry consulting, operations and information technology solutions. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt skilled at leading global teams in generating value in global Fortune 100 Companies by improving operations through growth and change management initiative. Global Fortune 100 clients include Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Chemicals/Energy and Industrial. Dave’s background consists of global chemical industry consulting and operation experience in Accounting/ Finance, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing, Strategy, EH&S, and Information Technology.

In his current capacity as Senior Director for Responsible Care®, Dave manages the Responsible Care Partner program and serves as a senior consultant for all aspects of Responsible Care field implementation. Following retirement from a 33 year career in DuPont in 1996, Dave worked as a supply chain and employee safety consultant for two years before joining the American Chemistry Council staff as a Member Relations Executive in 1998. Dave holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and has managed the Responsible Care Partner Program since December 2005.

Shelly Heuser joined TPC Group as the Vice President of Supply Chain in May 2010 to create and transform the Supply Chain organization. During her tenure at TPC, she has designed and streamlined supply chain work processes and roles and responsibilities resulting in significant improvement in operational results. Prior to joining TPC Group, Ms. Heuser served as Vice President of Manufacturing at LyondellBasell Industries. She has more than 20 years of industry experience and has held various leadership positions in engineering, operational excellence and six sigma, risk management, site management, human resources and operations planning. Ms. Heuser received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an M.B.A. from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Mac, as his colleagues know him, is a veteran in Supply Chain Management. A Statistics Graduate and Post Graduate in Marketing Management and Materials Management, his work experience spans for almost 30 years in various leading organizations in India.

Mac started his career with Godrej Soaps Limited and has worked with the likes of Procter & Gamble, Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Miebach Consultants, and Kurl-On among others. In each organization he has a proven track record of reducing Supply Chain costs and introducing various methods of process optimization.

Currently he is working with Reliance Industries, the largest Private Sector Enterprise in India and a part of the elite Fortune 500 group globally as a General Manager (Supply Chain Management).

Special Mention
A regular speaker at various International Supply Chain seminars, Mac has spoken as an expert in Supply Chain Management at various summits at Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Belgium, Mumbai and Chennai.

Suresh Iyer, Vice President, Supply Chain and Engineering Services, GenpactSuresh has over 18 years of rich experience in business development, product development and operations management for the Supply Chain and Manufacturing areas. In his current role, Suresh is responsible for building the global supply chain and engineering services practice for Genpact.

He has been working with Genpact for 11+ years and prior to this role, he was the global operations leader responsible for building the shared services back office for a global manufacturing company. Prior to Genpact, he has worked with Thermax and Sify as a business development executive.

Suresh is a certified Six Sigma professional and a B.E. in Mechanical.

Dr. Srinivasan Jayakumar is Lead Supply Chain Consultant at LyondellBasell Industries. After a decade working in the areas of process design, simulation and advanced process control in the chemicals industry, Jay’s attention shifted to Supply Chain – Optimization, Prototyping, Technology Evaluation, Need Assessment, and Benchmarking. Processes and systems he engineered are central to Rail Car Fleet Sizing, Inventory Targeting & Reconciliation, Production Scheduling, Distribution Cost Improvement, and Supply Chain Scorecarding. A project he led to design and implement a globally integrated collaborative Supply Planning tool resulted in a state-of-the-art commercial Advanced Planning and Optimization software for the Chemical Industry. He played an instrumental role in educating Business and Supply Chain Leaders, developing and then initiating an Internal Business Benchmarking process, which had been eluding the organization for many years.

After seven years as an engineer in R&D roles, Mr. Lord moved into production and inventory analysis and progressed into product supply management positions. He applied supply chain principles to add significant value to his businesses, and progressed into product line P&L management. In 2004, he was tasked with leading the process transformation of the order-to-cash processes within SAP and became a client of AMR Research. After five years leading process improvement projects, Mr. Lord joined AMR Research in April 2009.

Paul Lord is an AMR research director in Gartner Research. His research covers supply chain practices in the chemical industry. Mr. Lord helps clients across all manufacturing industries with logistics strategies, inventory management and channel management challenges.

Patrick Lozon has been working in Supply Chain activities for more than 20 years. He spent eight years as a Transportation / Logistics Officer in the USAF and three years as a Materials Manager with Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals. With Bayer the past 11 years, Patrick has held positions ranging from Site Logistics Manager to Vice President and Head of Site Manufacturing at one of Bayer CropScience’s major production facilities. He spent just shy of four years at Bayer CropScience Headquarters in Monheim, Germany, as the Senior Project Lead responsible for developing and implementing the company’s New Global Supply Chain Operating Model. Patrick recently returned to the United States as Vice President and Head of Procurement North America. He is located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Lloyd (Trey) McClure is an accomplished multi-functional supply chain professional with over 20 years experience leading global supply chain transformations in public, private & private equity owned corporations. Trey began his supply chain career living in Germany for 3 years while working in a logistics role with the U.S. Government. Since then he has successfully accomplished major supply chain development and reengineering work in 3 corporations and has led or been instrumental in the implementation & stabilization of global ERP systems including SAP, Epicor9, JBA & AmSoft. His diverse industry experience spans make-to stock electronics, process industry chemicals, make-to-order tailored suits and engineer-to-order locomotives. Trey currently serves on the CEO advisory council of the Standard Register Corporation.

Eric J. McMackin is Director of Customer Service for Quality Transportation (QTS) having been in the position for five years. Eric manages the day-to-day operations of the QTS service operations groups, including Railcar Tracking, Fleet Management, Reporting and Analytics, EDI and Data Exchanges, and Freight Management Services. Additionally, Eric serves as a product owner and “voice of the customer” to the QTS software development teams, helping shape the ongoing evolution of QTS’s SmartRail™ Suite of applications. A 14-year veteran of QTS with previous experience in the LTL Trucking segment, Eric brings customer focus and operational expertise to the QTS Management Team.

George Morrison is currently Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Information Technology for IPS Corporation and also a member of the Snr Executive Team.

George is responsible for Strategy Development, Capability building and Execution for Global Supply Chain and Procurement, Outsourcing, Customer Service, Transportation Logistics and Information Technology. He is also responsible for the company's SIOP process and cycle time reduction efforts and has implemented tailored improvements to dramatically improve perfect order, inventory and total supply chain costs.

George joined IPS from Honeywell International, where he was the Global Director of Supply Chain for the $4.8 Billion Specialty Materials Group. In this role he had functional responsibility for the supply chain performace of five SBE's with 40 manufacturing sites. Prior to that he worked for Johnson & Johnson where he held management positions as Director of Business Process Excellence and Director of Customer Staisfaction/Supply Chain. Previously he was with Avery Dennison Corporation where he also held leadership positions in manufacturing and engineering, operations, business planning and materials managment.

George earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also holds MS degrees in Civil Engineering, Management and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. George is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is based in Germantown, TN.

Peter Murray is currently one of DuPont’s Competency Leaders working on enabling DuPont’s Supply Chain Transformation and shifting the emphasis from a functional focus within operations to a strategic part of the business management process across DuPont. This includes extensive work on identifying and developing the competencies required at all levels of the organization to create the performance capability and make the improvement sustainable.Peter has 20 years of professional experience in supply chain, product and program management, operations, and business management. He has been with DuPont for eight years. Peter first joined DuPont as the Global Supply Chain Manager for the joint venture with Dow Chemical, DuPont-Dow Elastomers. Previously Peter has worked for other companies such as Newell-Rubbermaid, Raytheon, and Kao of Japan where as the primary supplier to Microsoft for packaged software Peter led the supply program for Windows 98. Peter is APICS CIRM certified was part of the development team for the new APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional Certification body of knowledge. He works with APICS to develop products and services for large organizations such as DuPont. Peter also works with the Corporate Executive Board and Supply Chain Council representing DuPont for Supply Chain Development research and development. He also is certified in Demand Flow Technology and has led LEAN centered change across businesses.

Currently Sr. Vice President, Supply Chain with Reliance Industries Limited, India’s Largest Private Sector enterprise, Sukumar has close to three decades of experience handling different segments of the Supply Chain both at the Operational & Strategic level in firms from diverse industry segments. Beginning his career with the Public Sector HINDUSTAN COPPER, Sukumar has worked through organizations like HINDUSTAN CIBA-GEIGY (now NOVARTIS), PARKE-DAVIS & WARNER LAMBERT (now part of PFIZER) and briefly even with MIEBACH LOGISTICS INDIA Pvt. LIMITED in India.

Among his other responsibilities, Sukumar has trained the company employees in TQM extensively earlier on, has worked in a consulting assignment with the erstwhile PriceWaterhouseCoopers and with ORACLE in India as the Industry Expert for the Life Sciences and Consumer Products Group.

Sukumar has worked briefly in the US with a SAP Certified Solution provider in Houston, Texas where he was involved with the overall Operations Function of the firm.

Sukumar believes Supply Chain is an intricate science that calls for the convergence of many skills. Anyone with a penchant for Process Management (having internalized the philosophy of Total Quality Management and imbibed the by now famous Theory of Constraints propounded by Eliyahu Goldratt), who also has a keen understanding of the fundamentals of the human psyche, will represent according to him, the perfect elixir for churning the juice out of a Supply Chain Management responsibility. Although this recipe is stringent, Sukumar says he stands by his Bill of Material!!

A Post Graduate in Economics and Masters in Marketing Management with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Materials management, Sukumar speaks on any aspect of Supply Chain Management and has apparently drawn very good reviews of not only the manner in which he presents, but also the thoughts he provokes among the audience! He was voted the BEST YOUNG MATERIALS MANAGER in India in 1990, based on a competition organized by the International Federation for Purchasing & Materials Management (IFPMM), Sweden and the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM), Mumbai.

Clive Oakley, Business Development Director at Telenor Traxion AB., has 20 years of experience in the global supply chain industry having lead operations for manufacturers and 3^rd party logistics operators, with spells in Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics Operations and Planning functions.

Clive joined Telenor Traxion to lead its development and growth into the global Tank Container Logistics sector, including the Chemical and Food product markets. He is able to apply his years of international supply chain and logistics experience to support Telenor Traxion working closely with customers to understand and exploit the full potential of its managed service, global real-time tracking and monitoring solution for non-powered freight assets.

Among his significant previous positions, Clive served as Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics – UK for CEMEX, part of a $15bn turnover, Mexican based, NYSE listed, multinational manufacture of building materials, and Global Operations Director for Suttons Group, a privately owned Tank Container operator.

Clive is a Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Glenn E. Riggs, Senior Vice President, North American Logistics, brings to Odyssey Logistics & Technology (OL&T) two decades of experience in chemical supply chain management, first with Union Carbide, then with UniGlobal Logistics, followed by The Dow Chemical Company. Since OL&T’s start in 2003, he has directed the logistics redesign and implementation for the company’s North American clients.

Riggs strengthens OL&T’s deep bench management, adding powerful expertise in the operations of all transport modes and delivering specialized knowledge in the areas of chemical transportation and industry data and optimization modeling.

Riggs played an integral role during the merger of industry leaders Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, integrating the companies’ distribution networks. His experience also includes a variety of positions in distribution, materials management and contracting at several North American chemical plants with global distribution.

Throughout his career, he has been responsible for the safe and efficient operations of large package truck, bulk truck and rail distribution networks in the transport of chemicals.

Riggs received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

Sean Ritchie is the Director of Logistics Operations and Distribution Safety at Bayer MaterialScience LLC. Sean is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY and holds an M.B.A. from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. Sean is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He has worked for 19 years in the supply chain field in various functions ranging from international ocean shipping to plant warehouse and tank farm operations to leading supply chain performance improvement projects. In his current role, he is responsible for day to day operations of the Bayer MaterialScience distribution network in the United States. His responsibilities include warehouse and bulk terminal operations, transportation operations, international logistics and transportation distribution safety.

Since February 2011 head of global supply chain organization at Kemira and member of the Business Management Board. In charge of Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, as well as Logistics and Customer Service world wide.

2009-2011 headed the New Equipment Business of KONE Corporation in Asia Pacific. Based in Shanghai, responsibilities covering the full chain of activities from sales and marketing to delivery and installation of elevators and escalators in all KONE Asia Pacific markets, as well as the ownership of KONE offering portfolio and offering development roadmaps in the region.

2005-2009 Vice President, Delivery Process, in KONE global headquarters. In charge of the global development and harmonization of KONE Delivery process, including demand-supply planning, sourcing, manufacturing, as well as order fulfillment related processes and the supporting IT solutions.

Before joining KONE a career in management consulting, executive education, and research, most recently in Capgemini Finland as the head of Business Process Consulting practice.

MSc and PhD in Industrial Management from Helsinki University of Technology.

Debra van Holst is the Director of Business Operations for Polyethylene. Debra graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She joined NOVA Chemicals in 1994, after working for DuPont Canada.

She has experience in many aspects of the of the polymer industry including, manufacturing, operations, new product development, marketing, commercial management, investor relations, business leadership, new business development, quality, supply assurance and business operations.

Ken Wensel joined BDP International in 1980. During his 23-year career with BDP, Ken has held a variety of increasingly responsible positions in Operations, Sales and Senior Corporate Staff.

In 1994 he was named Vice President of the company's Sales Department and in 1996 assumed additional responsibility for BDP's Marketing and Corporate Communications unit.

His extensive experience in Operations covers process analysis, information integration, supply chain management initiatives, international logistics, and order management.

Ken leads a team of cross-functional professionals in the U.S. and across the BDP Global Network, which design and execute international logistics process solutions for BDP clients. In 2001, he was one of the architects of the firm’s Lead Logistics Provider model for client Dow Chemical Company. He also plays a key role in the strategic planning and development of BDP's e-commerce initiatives.

He is a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management professionals; the International Customer Service Association; the Executive Sales Management Association; and is listed in the Who's Who of International Logistics Professionals.

Ken earned a B.S. Degree in Chemistry/Biology from Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland and has completed executive management and marketing courses at the Wharton Business School and the Kellogg School of Management.