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Ewan Andrew was appointed President, Global Supply Chain & Procurement and Chief Sustainability Officer in September 2019.
Namrata was appointed Chief Supply Chain Officer in November 2023.
Namrata joined Haleon from Procter & Gamble, where she spent 17 years in various leadership roles. This included spending six years leading Global Supply Chain for the company’s Beauty Sector, as well as leading the supply chain sustainability agenda for Procter & Gamble globally. Namrata also had supply chain leadership roles in Central Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, Western Europe and Latin America.
Before joining Procter & Gamble, Namrata held senior leadership roles at global consumer companies including Coca Cola and The Gillette Company. Namrata is also a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Biomedica, a leading gene and cell therapy group.
Fares Sayegh is Procter & Gamble’s Senior Vice President, Product Supply Fabric Care, Global Supply Network Operations and Manufacturing Disciplines. A native of Lebanon with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Fares began his career in 1988 at Procter & Gamble in Saudi Arabia. Over the past three decades Fares assumed several leadership positions in supply chain, commercial and Global Business Services /IT roles. Before his current role, Fares took over the European Product Supply market operations which he ran until the beginning of this year. Since 2004 Fares has been residing in Geneva, Switzerland.
Roland Lechner serves as Managing Director of International Supply Chain Management at the ALDI SOUTH Group since 2018. In his role he is responsible for the optimisation of the end-to-end supply chain, leading a huge technology transformation programme to develop a future-proof global network. Roland and his team also focus on the ALDI SOUTH Group emission reduction targets and work towards a net-zero supply chain, while maintaining the strong discount retailer profile and low-cost promise to customers.
Roland has 18 years of leadership experience in different international and national leadership roles across a variety of functions, like Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Procurement, IT & Business Coordination, Technology Development, Expansion & Property Development, and Retail Operations. Roland is enthusiastic about technology and strives for diverse global teams, currently leading a team with people from 35 nations.
The ALDI SOUTH Group operates more than 7.400 stores in 11 countries across 4 continents with more than 200.000 employees and achieved sales of EUR 83 billion last year.
Aksel Eroglu has worked across Europe with Nestlé for over 25 years. He has held supply chain roles in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Switzerland.
Dr. Arne Flemming is currently the Senior Vice President Corporate Supply Chain and Global Logistics Services at Bosch. Dr. Flemming has worked in various supply chain and operations roles for almost 13 years at Bosch.
Stephane Piat has dedicated his career to leading transformation and operations within the manufacturing and industrialization sector. With a strong background in quality, logistics, and planning, he has consistently demonstrated his expertise in driving efficiency and innovation. As a global citizen, Stephane has gained invaluable experience working in various regions, including Asia, East Europe, and contributing to global transformation initiatives.
Currently, he holds a role as Senior Vice-President Supply Chain Strategy & Performance. In this position, he is responsible for spearheading transformation efforts within the supply chain. His focus is on continuous improvement and delivering impactful results across the entire value chain. This includes empowering customers to become Impact Makers through the company’s offers and solutions, optimizing internal supply chain operations, and cultivating strong partnerships with suppliers.
Ms. Maria Pia De Caro currently serves as Global Operations EVP for Pernod Ricard, where she is responsible for the entire supply chain organization including strategy, manufacturing operations, planning and logistics, procurement and safety, sustainability and quality management. Ms. De Caro has a track record of more than 25 years of leadership in areas such as engineering, manufacturing, M&A and supply chain at a number of fast-moving consumer goods companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Mondelez. Ms. De Caro holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and is an avid supporter of diversity and inclusion.
Paul is a 22-year PepsiCo veteran with experience working across all aspects of Supply Chain, including manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, customer facing and planning. Paul has worked in developing markets, leading the Supply Chain organization across Eastern Europe, and in developed markets, working in the UK Snacks business in several executive manufacturing roles. He has also led the Global Supply Chain for PepsiCo Global Concentrate Solutions (PGCS) and has experience in all of PepsiCo’s categories—Snacks, Beverage, Juice and Grains, and Dairy.
He is an Engineer by background, having started his career in Petrochemicals. Paul is married to Ann and they have 4 daughters. He is an enthusiastic social runner and avid armchair sports fan.
Matt Winterman joined AstraZeneca in 2023 as the Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain and Strategy, with overall responsibility for the development and execution of the end to end supply chain platform and product supply strategies. In addition, he is responsible for ensuring the strategic development of network designs and supply chain capabilities supporting AstraZeneca’s global operational network. He reports into the EVP of Operations and Information Technology, and serves as a member of the Global Operations Senior Leadership Team. Matthew has more than 30 years of experience in global supply and operations. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Matthew held the role of Global Head of Pharma E2E Supply Chain Management and CDMO at F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd overseeing the entire Supply Chain of the Pharmaceutical Division Roche/Genentech. Additionally, Matthew held senior leadership roles at GlaxoSmithKline where he had responsibility for developing and implementing an end-to-end supply chain transformation, logistics and product supply strategy, and prior to that spent several years in strategy consulting. Matthew graduated from the University of Bristol with a Degree in Economics and holds a Diploma in Strategy.
Erika joined H&M in 2022 as the Global Head Supply Chain Strategy & Design after nearly 25 years at Procter & Gamble. Throughout her career in supply chain, Erika has held roles spanning across the globe, including Mexico, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Sweden. Erika has excelled in roles spanning from retail logistics to global strategy and innovation. She is passionate for driving value and developing people in a sustainable way.
Luciano serves as the Vice President for Global Operations and Supply Chain Advanced Analytics at Medtronic, where he steers a $30+ billion revenue stream through strategic analytics and insights. His pioneering approach to business-led analytics and the creation of the proprietary ‘Insights’ system, exemplify his capacity for innovation and his commitment to impactful leadership. This system has standardized trusted information delivery across an enterprise that spans 150 countries, manages treatments for 70 health conditions, and leads technologies in critical health areas such as Diabetes and Cardiovascular. Under Luciano’s leadership, the team has grown into a robust 80-member organization, demonstrating his ability to inspire and mobilize toward common goals. His leadership style is deeply human-centric, fostering a culture of humility and high performance.
Jamal Chamariq has been responsible for implementing end-toend supply chain solutions and managing operations for all Estee Lauder brands and categories in EMEA and Travel Retail Worldwide since 2018. He has significant experience in supply chain, including: product development, procurement, planning, manufacturing, distribution and business engineering.
Alexandre Turolla is an energetic, visionary and innovative leader. He is experienced in bringing senior management and key business stakeholders onboard the Procurement journey, partnering and challenging the status quo.
Turolla currently serves as the SVP, Chief Procurement Officer at IFF. He held previous roles in procurement at Mondelez and Unilever, spending over 12 years at each building his successful career.
Turolla is passionate for elevating Procurement to a truly business-partner function, balancing the corporate and function objectives with the outside-in insights. He has spent his career living and working on developed and emerging markets and has extensive experience in M&A and divestiture processes, rallying to make the outcome bigger than the sum of the parties and fast igniting a working-together spirit.
He is moved build winning teams, where collaboration drives enterprise success.
Daniel Myers is currently a Senior Fellow at Haslam School of Business teaching as a guest lecturer for both graduate and under-graduate studies. He currently serves as a Senior Operating Executive for the Carlyle Group, one of the largest Global Private Equity firms and is on two company boards. He is the retired Executive Vice President of the Global Integrated Supply Chain of Mondelez International where he led the Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Customer Service & Logistics groups, which represent more than 70,000 of the company’s employees. Daniel held the same position at Kraft Foods Inc., the predecessor to Mondelēz International, since he joined the company in September 2011. The spin-off of the company’s North American grocery operations occurred in October of 2012. Under his leadership, Mondelez funded a major reinvention of its worldwide supply chain delivering more than $3 billion in savings over 3 years. He has extensive experience in investor management including representing Mondelez in the investor presentations at CAGNY and Barclays.
Prior to Kraft Foods, Daniel worked for Procter & Gamble for 33 years, serving in roles across all areas of the Supply Chain. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Product Supply, where he led the supply chain function for P&G’s Global Hair Care business. He was also responsible for coordinating the company’s $28 Billion Beauty & Grooming business. He had responsibility for P&G’s Customer Service and Logistics operations globally for four years and while in this role he led the integration of the operations of the Gillette company, a $56 Billion acquisition.
Daniel has strong experience launching new brands and building operations in emerging markets. He has over 25 years’ experience delivering winning innovation leading major global expansions. He has worked in 54 countries and lived outside the U.S. for more than 10 years. Daniel has mastery in the successful implementation of best practices including building High Performance Organizations and Lean Six Sigma. During his successful career, he has had responsibility for over 250 manufacturing plants and 400 warehouse and distribution centers.
Daniel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and served on the Board of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee for over 10 years.
Daniel and Karen, his wife of 40 years, are Christians who have led music and youth groups for 5 churches in three different countries over a period of 25 years. They have been active in mission work helping support and build schools or orphanages in Venezuela, Romania, Nigeria, Kenya, India and Myanmar.
René Buck completed his study in Economic Geography and Planning (cum laude) at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 1985. After his study he started the research and consultancy firm Buck Consultants International. Through more than 30 years of experience, René knows the backgrounds and concerns of many stakeholders and he speaks their ‘language’: from international to regional companies; from universities and to specialized research institutes; from broad interest groups to sectoral sector organizations; from (real estate) project developers to investors/investors; and, from municipalities and provinces to ministries and the European Commission.
René is a leading consultant in the areas where BCI Global is active and he is a prominent speaker at conferences throughout the world. He is seen by international news media as a leading expert.
Reginaldo has a rich history at Unilever spanning over 30 years with extensive supply chain experience in both developed and emerging markets.
After graduating from Universidade de Sao Paulo as an electrical engineer, Reginaldo started his journey at Unilever Brazil as a trainee in 1991. Just two years later, he was responsible for building a new factory and the production of a new category – powder detergents.
Since then, through leadership positions across Unilever’s supply chain in North America, Latin America and Central America, Reginaldo has been at the forefront of transforming our supply chains, ensuring they are future-fit.
In his most recent role, Reginaldo served as Executive Vice President of Unilever Mexico, Central America and Greater Caribbean overseeing 11 countries, 12 product categories and high levels of growth despite the pandemic. Before this he oversaw our supply chain in North America and Latin America, generating double digit growth in the profitability of one of our largest regions.
Thierry Tricot is Schneider Electric’s Senior Vice President of GSC Europe since December 2022, leading manufacturing and distribution operations for the region, with an end-to-end SC responsibility covering safety, quality, customer satisfaction, procurement, upstream and downstream supply chain as well as fabrication and assembly.
With more than 12 years of experience at Schneider Electric based in France and Germany, he led various global teams (Equipment and Transformers Supply Chain, Quality and Supply Chain Strategy for the Energy Business) transforming the Supply Chain and driving profitable.
Thierry Tricot is a driven leader with strong international exposure and experience to manage and turn around businesses in competitive and fast changing environment. Before joining Schneider Electric, Thierry worked (1991-2003) at Alstom as Technical Director, being responsible for the development of new products and technical support to the sales forces, and then at Areva as Engineering To Order Plant and Business Managing Director, this till 2010 when the company (Electrical Distribution Business) was acquired by SE.
Thierry holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France). He has served for 8 years as administrator of the Regensburg University and is currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Schneider Electric Germany GmbH.
Thierry is actively supporting the development of Women Handball in Bavaria.
As a Partner and General Manager, Mike leads the product and engineering teams responsible for Microsoft’s Supply Chain Business Applications. He brings 18 years of leadership experience across Operations, Management and Technology. Mike has held roles in the US and Internationally with companies ranging from a few hundred employees to tens of thousands. Having led teams across in various organizations (Amazon [Last Mile Global Expansion, NA Retail], Convoy [Marketplace Growth], Nike [NA Demand Planning], Best Buy [multiple]) there’s always a theme of technology and the movement of goods. At Microsoft, his product and engineering teams are building technology to help customers and partners accelerate their supply chain using cloud, AI and edge technologies.
Originally from Canada, Mike holds multiple patents in supply chain and loves speaking/advising on the intersection of supply chain and technology. He holds an MBA (focused on Supply Chain Management) from Pennsylvania State University, a LSS Green Belt, and a BA from Simon Fraser University. He currently resides in Seattle with his wife and two children.
Fares Sayegh is Procter & Gamble’s Senior Vice President, Product Supply Fabric Care, Global Supply Network Operations and Manufacturing Disciplines. A native of Lebanon with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Fares began his career in 1988 at Procter & Gamble in Saudi Arabia. Over the past three decades Fares assumed several leadership positions in supply chain, commercial and Global Business Services /IT roles. Before his current role, Fares took over the European Product Supply market operations which he ran until the beginning of this year. Since 2004 Fares has been residing in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ivanka Janssen is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Philips. Ivanka is one of the most prominent supply chain executives in our network. She has had a long career across different facets of the supply chain in several companies across the fast-moving consumer goods industries and for the last three years, she has been leading the supply chain function for Philips.
Vineet has 37 years of global experience in the CPG industry in several functions and countries. He recently retired from Nestlé as Senior Vice President, Global Head of Supply Chain. In this role he managed global responsibility for strategy, operational performance, and transformation projects for E2E supply chain including demand & supply planning, physical logistics, customer service, materials management, digital supply chain, etc.
During his distinguished career, Vineet has held senior leadership roles in Management Teams for 25 years and has had extensive multi-functional experience in a variety of roles ranging from strategy formulation to global transformation projects in business as well as technology. An Indian national, he completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1986 before embarking on his career.
Vineet sits on the board of Nestlé Enterprises SA, but his contributions extend beyond Nestlé. Vineet is passionate about development and poverty redressal, human rights, sustainability and reducing inequalities. Vineet’s leadership as the co-chair of the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) of the Consumer Goods Forum and his work as a key member of The Future Insights Network’s Coalition demonstrate his passion for driving sustainability, re-defining the role of business in the society, and developing supply chain profession to its full potential.
Bart Jongen has extensive, end-to-end Supply Chain & Procurement experience that includes S&OP, Operational Supply Chain Management, Logistics (W&D), Procurement (Direct & Indirect), Program & Project Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Digital Implementations for 30 years within the Consumer Products, Medical Devises and Services, Lighting Solutions, Airline Maintenance, Indoor Climate Solutions, Wind Energy, Manufacturing, 3/4PL and Advisory sectors
He specializes in Change Management, Supply Chain Transformations, Project & Program Management (ERP & Advanced Planning), Cost Management, Supply Chain Excellence, Process Improvements, Network Optimization, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Supply Chain Organizational Design and Capabilities , Customer Collaboration, Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Management, Procurement, Sourcing as well as Mergers & Acquisitions
Before joining Volvo Cars early 2023, Mr. Jongen worked for global organizations such as Philips, IMI, Air France-KLM, Vestas, LM Wind Power & Gartner acting at executive level in strategic design, deployment and operating optimized supply chain & procurement solutions.
Daniel Myers is currently a Senior Fellow at Haslam School of Business teaching as a guest lecturer for both graduate and under-graduate studies. He currently serves as a Senior Operating Executive for the Carlyle Group, one of the largest Global Private Equity firms and is on two company boards. He is the retired Executive Vice President of the Global Integrated Supply Chain of Mondelez International where he led the Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Customer Service & Logistics groups, which represent more than 70,000 of the company’s employees. Daniel held the same position at Kraft Foods Inc., the predecessor to Mondelēz International, since he joined the company in September 2011. The spin-off of the company’s North American grocery operations occurred in October of 2012. Under his leadership, Mondelez funded a major reinvention of its worldwide supply chain delivering more than $3 billion in savings over 3 years. He has extensive experience in investor management including representing Mondelez in the investor presentations at CAGNY and Barclays.
Prior to Kraft Foods, Daniel worked for Procter & Gamble for 33 years, serving in roles across all areas of the Supply Chain. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Product Supply, where he led the supply chain function for P&G’s Global Hair Care business. He was also responsible for coordinating the company’s $28 Billion Beauty & Grooming business. He had responsibility for P&G’s Customer Service and Logistics operations globally for four years and while in this role he led the integration of the operations of the Gillette company, a $56 Billion acquisition.
Daniel has strong experience launching new brands and building operations in emerging markets. He has over 25 years’ experience delivering winning innovation leading major global expansions. He has worked in 54 countries and lived outside the U.S. for more than 10 years. Daniel has mastery in the successful implementation of best practices including building High Performance Organizations and Lean Six Sigma. During his successful career, he has had responsibility for over 250 manufacturing plants and 400 warehouse and distribution centers.
Daniel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and served on the Board of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee for over 10 years.
Daniel and Karen, his wife of 40 years, are Christians who have led music and youth groups for 5 churches in three different countries over a period of 25 years. They have been active in mission work helping support and build schools or orphanages in Venezuela, Romania, Nigeria, Kenya, India and Myanmar.
David is a thought leader and industry expert in the field of Global Supply Chain. David spent 23 years with Microsoft Corporation as General Manager of Global Supply Chain and Supply Chain Technology officer, he was involved in every product launch from Windows 2000 through to the most recent Surface and Xbox products. He has built and managed numerous global teams, has led across multiple disciplines including Manufacturing, Strategic Sourcing, Fulfillment and Logistics, Forecasting, Planning and Channel Management. He has played a key role in major acquisitions including Nokia, built world class teams and continuously evolved Microsoft’s Supply Chain capabilities in a multi-channel environment.
As Supply Chain Technology Officer David was additionally responsible for determining the next generation of technologies that could augment and enable Supply Chain capabilities. In this capacity he worked with numerous Private Equity and Venture Capital partners to understand potential opportunities and the overall industry landscape for technology in Supply Chain.
Prior to Microsoft David was as a Management Consultant with Andersen Consulting focused on Supply Chain process and design and early in his career worked as a Project Engineer on the construction of the Hong Kong Airport.
David remains deeply embedded in the Supply Chain sector, working with numerous early-stage companies, Private Equity and Venture Capital, as well as with the Visibility Council, helping to shape the next generation of Supply Chain thinking.
David is a Manufacturing Engineer (B.Eng (Hons)), a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineering and Technology (C.Eng MIET) and holds a Diploma in Industrial Studies (DIS). David speaks frequently in the industry and mentors many past and potential future employees.
Holbach has been working at Henkel in various executive positions in Supply Chain, Operations, Purchasing and Sales since 1996, when he started in Corporate Purchasing after finishing his master’s degree. This was followed by various assignments in Germany. Having finished his PhD during a sabbatical period, in 2002 he moved to Mexico integrating two newly acquired businesses. Thereafter he returned to the headquarters and was in charge of global purchasing for the Laundry & Home Care business for several years until 2007. Holbach subsequently took control of the global supply chain for the same business, and a few years later gained global responsibility for the manufacturing operations.
Since 2014, he has been successfully leading the entire Supply Chain & Operations unit for the Laundry & Home Care division as Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer. In his current role, he has responsibility for a global head count of more than 7,000 associates in 33 factories and 47 logistics centres around the globe. Holbach is one of the most influential and visionary leaders in supply chain. This is also evident in his relentless pursuit of excellence, both at Henkel and in his personal journey. His progress is reflected in his climb in this ranking, from 9th place in 2018 to 4th place in 2019 and now to the top spot in 2020.
Despite COVID-19, he remains one of the top three most visible leaders in Europe and has shared his extensive technological expertise during many appearances at online conferences, webinars and educational events this year. His qualities and charisma are underlined by his success as one of the top four in terms of peer votes. His strategic priorities supporting the purposeful growth strategy of the company are digitalization, sustainability, innovation, system visibility and collaboration. His key contributions have been in the areas of supply chain strategy and organizational development, network optimization, post-merger integrations and recently the digital transformation of the organization. The multi-year, multi-dimensional transformation delivered significant financial contributions and increased the responsiveness, agility and resilience of global supply chain. In that context, the BU Supply Chain was recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of 14 digital E2E lighthouses globally in the field of advanced manufacturing/Industry 4.0.
Lelwyn Dsouza has been at Ecolab for 8 years. They are responsible for the roles of Senior Vice President Supply Chain Europe leading the end to end SC for Western Europe, Central Eastern Europe and Russia. This includes ownership of end to end P&L responsibility including safety, Quality, Procurement, planning, Manufacturing, logistics, engineering, other functional disciplines and Supply Chain VP’s who are aligned with Divisions.. Prior to Ecolab, he worked at Procter & Gamble and at Novartis/Ciba-Geigy with a total 33 years of work experience . He is a Mechanical Engineer with a Post graduate Diploma in Business management.
Marvin Cooke is Executive Vice President – Manufacturing at Toyota Motor Europe (TME).
Based in Brussels, he oversees all Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, Toyota Production System and Production Control functions and is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.
Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and held numerous management posts progressing to Director of Production Operations in 2008. He spent a year as Director of Production Engineering at Toyota Motor Europe in Brussels during 2011 returning to Toyota Manufacturing UK as Deputy Managing Director of Vehicle Manufacturing in January 2012. Marvin went on to spend 2 and a half years as Production Vice President at Toyota, Peugeot, Citroen Automobile in Czech Republic and returned to Toyota Manufacturing UK in 2017 as Managing Director.
Marvin assumed the position as Toyota Motor Europe’s Senior Vice President of Manufacturing in January 2020 and in addition, from October 1st, 2020, he was temporarily appointed President of TMMF. As of January 2021, Marvin was promoted to his current position as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing in TME.
Marvin started his career as an engineering apprentice at Pirelli Tyre Company. During his apprenticeship he studied at Burton & South Derbyshire College and graduated with an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nottingham Trent University. After his graduation, he worked as an engineer for Pirelli at both Burton-on-Trent and Carlisle plants. Immediately before joining Toyota, Marvin worked as a consultant engineer within the food and drinks industry.
Marvin is married with two children.
Ms. Maria Pia De Caro currently serves as Global Operations EVP for Pernod Ricard, where she is responsible for the entire supply chain organization including strategy, manufacturing operations, planning and logistics, procurement and safety, sustainability and quality management. Ms. De Caro has a track record of more than 25 years of leadership in areas such as engineering, manufacturing, M&A and supply chain at a number of fast-moving consumer goods companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Mondelez. Ms. De Caro holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and is an avid supporter of diversity and inclusion.
As Head of Customer Operations at Unilever, Juan Carlos Parada is leading an innovative, customer-centric agenda designed to digitise and optimise the company’s complete end-to end value chain. Through their technology first approach, Customer Operations is driving transformation across the business; powering Unilever’s future-fit operations, creating full operational integration with customers as One Supply Chain, and delivering on their vision to become the FMCG industry first E2E value network operation that drives superior customer experiences to enable growth.
Since joining Unilever in 2012, Juan Carlos has held a number of Supply Chain leadership roles across the business. These include Head of Supply Chain Europe, Head of Supply Chain Operations Latin America, Vice President Global Procurement Chemicals, Vice President Supply Chain Brazil and Vice President Supply Chain Middle Americas. In each of these roles, Juan Carlos was focused on accelerating the pace of transformation, driving resilience and agility, and fully committed to developing talent, and putting equity, diversity and inclusion at the centre.
Prior to this, Juan Carlos held a variety of local, regional, and global Supply Chain roles with The Procter & Gamble Company.
Throughout his career, he has lived in a number of different countries in Latin America including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina, as well as the United States, Singapore, Spain, and the Netherlands.
His wife and his youngest daughter live in Madrid while his older daughters attend graduate studies overseas.
Juan Carlos is an Electronics Engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Paul joined Mars in 2019 to lead the procurement for the Pet Nutrition Europe business before then taking the role Of CPO Pet Nutrition in July 2021. With the purchasing leadership team, they have built the direction for the function, re-enforcing the core capabilities, building global category strategies to address the changing supply landscape and resiliency issues, and of course, making tangible steps to make an impact across the various realms of sustainability.
Prior to joining Mars, Paul spent 20 years with Danone, in a variety of purchasing roles, where he led a number of projects across Milk, Vanilla, corn & various fruits, through collaborations with Mars (Livelihood fund for Family farming) and through the SAI platform (of which he was treasurer for 2 years).
Bettina Castillo is a leader with a big passion for building a resilient world-class supply chain together with internal and external stakeholders. She strives to deliver exceptional quality to the IKEA customers and people connected to the IKEA supply chain. Always with value-based leadership, connecting business and people with a focus on simplicity throughout changing environments.
Bettina is the Global Supply Operations Manager at IKEA Supply, the organisation responsible for the development of IKEA´s transport and logistic services capacities and its operations, as well as the responsibility for managing the physical flow of IKEA products from the suppliers to the stores. Together with 400+ passionate co-workers around the world, she sets and steers the global development agenda and secures performance excellence in the area of global supply operations.
Originally from Salzburg, Austria, Bettina earned a doctorate degree in Business Economics from the University of St.Gallen (HSG) with focus on Supply Chain Management, Transport Logistics and Operations. She is a committed and trusted leader with 15+ years’ experience in strategic and operational planning and execution. Her energy and inspiration come from the IKEA vision – to create a better everyday life for the many people. She thrives when she can make a difference by working on a strategic level, while also having passion to zoom into operations – staying close to people and business.
Duncan Lowe is Chief Supply Chain Officer for Campari Group. He holds a Chemical Engineering and Finance Degree from the University of Loughborough in the UK.
He has held leadership responsibilities for over 30years in multinational companies across Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America.
Prior to 6 years in Campari he held various executive Supply Chain roles for PepsiCo. Dunc has lately specialised in M&A, Sustainability and effective affordable digital solutions.
Erika joined H&M in 2022 as the Global Head Supply Chain Strategy & Design after nearly 25 years at Procter & Gamble. Throughout her career in supply chain, Erika has held roles spanning across the globe, including Mexico, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Sweden. Erika has excelled in roles spanning from retail logistics to global strategy and innovation. She is passionate for driving value and developing people in a sustainable way.
Telecommunications industry expert, Padraig Healy has worked for some of the biggest technology giants in the world. With over two decades of experience in international leadership and supply chain management, Padraig is one of the leading speakers on creating harmony across internal departments and how to liaise effectively with external stakeholders.
Since 2013, Padraig Healy has worked exclusively for multinational telecommunications company, Nokia. As the Vice President of Supply Chain Management, he has delivered company wide initiatives that enable seamless interaction across the supply chain. Tasked with improving the strategies used within the operations of Nokia, Padraig’s innovative ideas have enabled Nokia to maintain their position as an industry leader, whilst retaining profit margins and working within resource limits. Continually applying creativity to his ambitious projects has allowed Padraig to keep Nokia ahead of the curve.
Prior to embarking on his successful telecommunications career, Padraig studied at Cork Institute of Technology for his Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering. Excelling at his studies with an analytical mindset and problem solving abilities assisted Padraig in getting his foot in the door with the industry. Returning to education in 2016, he decided to further his qualifications with a Masters Degree in Supply Chain Management, of which he is now an expert.
Padraig has consistently been involved in the telecommunications industry, working in service delivery, operations management and business development as key areas. Before joining Nokia, Padraig progressed through roles within Dell. From 1999 to 2013, he was responsible for the development and fulfillment of their supply chain, held a senior position in technical support and overseen online commercial business.
Offering a global scale insight into business, supply chain and management solutions, Padraig Healy has a unique perspective to share with audiences. Although his experience is within telecommunications, Padraig offers invaluable advice to all corporations and businesses on internal and external communication and creating a seamless business operation.
Nora Olah joined Deutsche Telekom in 2013 as VP of Indirect Materials and Services Procurement before moving up to VP Supply Chain in 2020. At Deutsche Telekom, she says, “close collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders is one of the essential success factors. We get them around the table at an early stage and shape a strategy or procurement decision together”.
Prior to this, she spent five years as National Head of Procurement at Magyar Telekom, the Hungarian subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, and 15 years at Alcoa Inc. in various senior leadership sourcing roles, both across Europe and worldwide. She has an MBA from Purdue University (USA) and Tilburg University (NL), as well as business management degree from College for Foreign Trade in Budapest (HU). She is passionate about diversity topics, especially supporting female talents to grow and to develop to senior positions.
Bruno Ivanoff is currently managing the global indirect materials and services at the Comet Group. A results-orientated procurement executive with strong global leadership skills and proven track record of innovation, Bruno has managed several purchasing departments across Europe and the United States within large industrial manufacturing companies as well as in the automotive industry. He has designed and developed procurement departments in several large corporations as well as startups, streamlining processes and reducing costs. In his 25 years of strategic purchasing experience, he has also had global responsibility for energy purchasing and sustainability. Bruno holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and a Master’s degree from Webster University Geneva.
Wouter Visser is Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Belden’s Industrial Automation Solutions platform. Wouter joined Belden in 2022 to work on a transformation of the supply chain function that is able to drive Belden’s journey to become a solutions provider.
Prior to joining Belden, Wouter worked in several Operations, Supply Chain and Strategy roles for SPGPrints, a manufacturer of Rotary and Digital Printing Equipment for Textile and Industrial applications. Wouter focuses on building sustainable capabilities to drive supply chain performance by building teams and developing individuals and improving process visibility and transparency.
Kyle Young is the Vice President, Global Procurement, Electrical and Electronics for Eaton, a global intelligent power management company.
In this role, he is responsible for strategic sourcing, purchasing, contract management and supplier relationship development for over $2.3B in direct material spend across Eaton’s enterprise for Eaton’s Office of Supply Chain Management in Dublin, Ireland.
Since joining Eaton’s Supply Chain Leadership Development Program in 2012, Kyle has held positions of increasing responsibility in supply chain management, material management, new product development sourcing and category management. His strengths include negotiations, strategy, supply chain risk mitigation, enhancing quality and driving efficiency.
Kyle received a BS in Industrial Management with Operations and Finance from Purdue University and a MBA from the University of Mississippi. Kyle also is a Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) through ISM and Certified Professional in Inventory Management through APICS.
Hobbies/interests include running, cycling, functional fitness, golf, reading and travel.
Selim has been at The Quality Group for 10 months, He is responsible for the role of Chief Operating Officer at The Quality Group. Selim is an experienced Supply Chain executive with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Prior to The Quality Group he worked at Unilever for over 18 years. Slim is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor’s degree focused in Industrial Engineering / Math (minor) from Sabancı Üniversitesi.
Marisa Sánchez Urrea is the Global Head of Decarbonisation at Brambles Group, a supply chain logistics company that manages the world’s largest pool of reusable pallets, crates and containers, primarily through the CHEP brand.
Marisa is an Environmental Scientist with a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering and over 12 years’ international experience in the climate change and sustainability domains. She specialises in climate risk, carbon accounting and climate transition strategy development, including decarbonisation and adaptation plans. Marisa is also a lecturer of climate risk at the EOI Business School in Madrid, Spain. Prior to joining Brambles, Marisa led the climate change strategy at Orica, a global chemical company headquartered in Australia.
Bodo has 25 years of experience in the automotive industry with a proven track record in strategy, procurement operations and digital transformation. In his current position Bodo is transforming BMW Group‘s procurement function towards a data driven organization with highly automated processes.
Bodo has an interested in start-ups, disruptive solutions and in people.
Maciej Kaniowski joined Avon in January 2019. Initially, he was responsible for supply chain management in Central Europe. In April 2020 he became a member of the board of Avon Operations Poland – the largest and most technologically advanced Avon factory worldwide, as well as of Avon Distribution Poland – a distribution center, responsible for processing orders from Avon Representatives in eight countries. At the same time, his responsibilities as COO were expanded to the entire CEE region. In April 2022 he was promoted to Chief Supply Chain Officer of Avon International.
Maciej Kaniowski has extensive experience in supply chain management, gained at leading food companies in Poland. He was associated with Mars for almost 13 years, and with Bakalland S.A. for 2 years. Just before joining Avon, he was Managing Director at Quality Food Group.
In his daily work, Maciej focuses primarily on cooperation between individual departments and markets in order to elaborate the best solutions for business efficiency. Thus, he has been focused on creating the favorable working environment in which people can develop, support and motivate each other, and share their knowledge and experiences. As a result, he has built not only effective and committed teams at Avon, but also an entire work culture, under the #GameOn motto.
Maciej is a graduate in Management and Marketing from the Warsaw University of Technology. He also completed an international Master’s degree in Production Management at Linköping University in Sweden.
Kevin has a deep and varied history in HP, operating in supply chain leadership roles over the past 25 years, leading all functions across the SCOR domains and operating in both site and global roles.
Having graduated from the University of Limerick with a Technology degree, specialising in Production Management, he has worked in operations and supply chain roles both in the Technology industry and earlier in the Drinks industry. Kevin has worked in a number of multi-national companies during his career, with roles based in the UK, Ireland and currently in Spain.
A passionate believer in empowering people to lead change and deliver results through teamwork, Kevin has also served as an external member of the examinations board of the Limerick Institute of Technology.
Kevin’s current role is leading the supply chain for HP’s 3D Printing business, based in Barcelona. In this role, he is responsible for planning, manufacturing and distribution of all products within this division, in an industry that continues to grow significantly each year and offers the potential to revolutionise the world of high-value manufacturing in the future.
Simon Ross has spent 23 years working in the Oil and Gas industry with SLB (formally Schlumberger). He started as a “Wireline” field engineer and, since then, has led Operations across multiple disciplines and has had global assignments in UK, Norway, West Africa, USA, and France. Currently, Simon is Vice President of Technology Delivery for SLB’s “Reservoir Performance Division” and has global responsibility for Field Services/Quality/HSE, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Maintenance/Reliability & Workforce Productivity. He is based in Paris, is married, and has two children.
René Buck completed his study in Economic Geography and Planning (cum laude) at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 1985. After his study he started the research and consultancy firm Buck Consultants International. Through more than 30 years of experience, René knows the backgrounds and concerns of many stakeholders and he speaks their ‘language’: from international to regional companies; from universities and to specialized research institutes; from broad interest groups to sectoral sector organizations; from (real estate) project developers to investors/investors; and, from municipalities and provinces to ministries and the European Commission.
René is a leading consultant in the areas where BCI Global is active and he is a prominent speaker at conferences throughout the world. He is seen by international news media as a leading expert.
Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.
Darren O’Connor has worked for Milliken & Company for over 17 years, starting as a Product/Process Improvement Engineer in Milliken’s Automotive Division, holding roles as a Process Improvement Leader & Site Leader supporting the organisation with health & safety, Performance/Operational Excellence, winning the JIPM TPM Award for Excellence in 2003. Darren also worked for a number of World Class organisations outside of Milliken; with a Global leadership role for Six Sigma, Health & Safety and additionally, supporting Lean Logistics implementation. Since re-joining Milliken with Performance Solutions in 2013, Darren has supported global and pan-European clients across several countries/languages/cultures in the automotive, textile, food and paper / packaging industries. As a Senior Client Lead, Darren partners with organisations at all levels in the strategic and tactical implementation of Leadership, Health & Safety, Supply Chain and Performance Excellence.
Darren holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Safety, Health & Environmental Management, from the University of Manchester as well as earning Industrial Engineering and Management Diplomas from the University of Central Lancashire. Furthermore Darren is NEBOSH Diploma qualified Health & Safety Professional with a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma.
As director of market solutions, Chris is responsible for leading the commercial and technology strategy for the Managed Services division at C.H. Robinson. His role includes identifying market solutions, setting commercial strategy, and aligning supporting technologies and global processes to drive growth, and deliver on TMC’s mission for connecting, automating, and optimizing the world’s supply chains. Prior to his current role, Chris was the Global Account Manager overseeing the TMC relationship with Microsoft and was a member of the global implementation team.
Mike Bhaskaran is the Group Chief Operating Officer, Digital Technology for DP World. He is responsible for driving the digital transformation of all parts of our value chain globally and operates all aspects of our technology presence, driving global business process improvement and systems implementation.
Mike has valuable experience in Blockchain, e-commerce technology, and driving innovative digital capabilities in complex supply chains at scale. Mike started his career within Engineering before moving into Distribution Operations and Supply Chain at Dell Computer Corporation. Prior to joining DP World, Mike was the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Staples Inc.
Before that he worked various other global organizations including Amazon, The Gap Inc, Starbucks Corporation and Beyond the Rack Inc, where he was responsible for all technology infrastructure and software development efforts.
Mike has a Masters in Industrial Technology & Engineering from Utah State University in the USA and an MBA from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University in the USA.