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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Authors
Introducing the Procurement Leaders Network Editorial Board.
Please see below a list of procurement professionals and experts that have provided us with articles and opinions about a whole host of procurement topics.
Adrian Griffiths - Vendigital
Adrian is a co-founder of Vendigital, a procurement organisation delivering rapid business improvement through advanced purchasing techniques. His views on the purchasing function have been developed through working mainly with manufacturing organisations in the UK, US and Europe.
Alain Andreoli - cc-hubwoo
Alain Andreoli, 45, a global enterprise technology veteran, brings to cc-hubwoo over 20 years of diversified operational and strategic experience around the world.
Alan Day - State of Flux
Alan Day, the Managing Director of State of Flux, has more than 15 years experience in Supply Chain best practice.
Alex Klein – Efficio
Alex Klein is a co-founder of Efficio, and serves as the company’s COO. Alex is a broad-based professional with over 12 years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain improvement, and operations consulting.
Alexander Voigt - BrainNet
Alexander Voigt is Head of the Best Cost Country Sourcing practice of BrainNet in Bonn - one of the leading international brands in supply chain consulting and qualification.
Andrew Loken - 4C
Andrew leads 4C's Outsourced Procurement Division, and is a member of 4C's Management Board. He focuses on implementing and then directing large scale procurement outsource agreements. He has led the development of 4C's innovative processes and systems that are used by the Outsource team.
Andy Kyte - Gartner Research
Andy Kyte is a vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research. Since 1999 he has been responsible for leading the research into procurement governance, organization, strategies and systems. He has published extensively on the business trends in procurement, covering eProcurement, eSourcing, Spend Analysis and Vendor Management.
Andy MacLellan - RBS
As Director of RBS Group Purchasing, Andy is responsible for maximising the Group’s return on the £8bn which is invested with its Suppliers every year. Group Purchasing is a key element of RBS Manufacturing and works with the customer facing businesses to deliver innovative solutions across diverse, worldwide supply chains.
Chirag Shah - Trading Partners
Chirag Shah is the CEO and founding director of strategic procurement services company TradingPartners. TradingPartners provide a range of procurement services to FTSE 200 companies and public sector organisations from their main offices in London, Chicago and Shanghai.
Chris Bowden - Utilyx
Chris Bowden founded Utilyx in March 2000 along with the company's COO, Scott Bradley. Utilyx is the UK's leading supplier of energy procurement and price risk management services. The company manages energy price risk on behalf of a number of leading UK companies including Vodafone, McDonalds, Whitbread, Boots, Barclays Bank, Sainsbury, Astra Zeneca, BAT, and Kodak.
Christopher Barrat - Greystone
Christopher Barrat spent over 20 years working in blue-chip companies, at a senior level both on the procurement and sales side. Over the last 6 years he has built a sound reputation as a commentator and developmental thinker in the world of procurement.
David Downs - Morgan Chambers
David Downs is a principal consultant at Morgan Chambers - Europe's leading independent Sourcing advisory firm.
David McCron - BRC Consultancy
David McCron is Director of BRC Consultancy Ltd. BRC researches and publishes ‘World Data Networks’, ‘Win/Loss’, ‘Network Pricing’ and ‘Access Pricing’ reports, and also carries out price benchmarking studies for MNC clients.
David Rae - Procurement Leaders
Prior to his editorial director role at Procurement Leaders, David was the deputy editor of Financial Director in June 2005 and has since been short-listed for three major journalism awards* for his profile interviews and regular columns.
Dennis De Jong - ABN Amro
Dennis de Jong is a Senior Vice President at ABN AMRO and is heading the Global Procurement Development team. In this role Dennis leads the global transformation agenda of procurement in the field of e-sourcing, sustainable development, training, talent development and knowledge management. Dennis joined ABN AMRO as head of procurement for facilities management in 1999; later on this role was expanded to all areas of spend.
Dr Antonia Wanner - Nestlé
Dr Antonia Wanner has been European purchasing group manager at Nestle's German division in Frankfurt since 2002. She joined the company as a lawyer in 1996 and moved to corporate purchasing in 1999 as a buyer of various packaging materials.
Dr Joanne Meehan - Liverpool Business School
Following a career in purchasing management for a blue chip, multinational organisation, Joanne is now a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.
Duncan Jones - Forrester
Based in London, UK, Duncan primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals.
Francois-Xavier Terny - Lowenthalmasai
Following his studies at HEC, François-Xavier Terny began his professional career in 1991 as a strategic consultant with Bain & Company. During his 5 years with Bain & Co., there were 2 prevailing trends: international assignments, with one year spent between the Moscow and Warsaw offices (1993) and creation of the South African office (1995), and purchasing. It was during the numerous purchasing assignments (sheer luck in strategic consultancy!) that the idea for Masaï was born.
François Bréjoux - France Telecom
François Bréjoux is head of sourcing transformation of France Telecom Orange, especially managing the Sourcing University *, setting up the Supplier Relationship Management programme and developing the Outsourcing methodology. He was previously the France IT Sourcing Director.
Frederic Andre - GE Equipment Services
Frederic Andre has been Sourcing Manager Europe at GE Equipment Services since 2003, based at their headquarters in the Netherlands.
Gary Mull - Emptoris Inc.
Gary Mull is a senior director with Emptoris Inc. where he is responsible for the success of their enterprise contract management and compliance solutions. Mr. Mull joined Emptoris in 2003, driving adoption with global 1000 companies, resulting in Emptoris becoming the recognized leader in the enterprise contract management and compliance market.
Gautam Singh - The Smart Cube
Gautam is a founder director of The Smart Cube which he started five years ago.
Gerard Dahan - Ariba
Gerard Dahan coordinates the global marketing strategy and the Ariba fame development in Southern Europe for France, Spain and Italie. As Ariba develops its activities in Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary and Tchequy), from now on Gerard Dahan also manages the Marketing and Communication Direction for this area, for Germany, Switzerland and Austria and for Ariba new Eastern subsidiary (since November 2005).
Gerd Kerkhoff - Kerkhoff Consulting
Gerd Kerkhoff is managing partner at Kerkhoff Consulting, a consultancy focussing on procurement which he set up with his wife Stephanie in 1999.
Guy Allen - Fujitsu
Director of sourcing and supply services, Fujitsu.
Haydn P. Jones - A. T. Kearney
Haydn P. Jones is a consultant with A. T. Kearney, and a former regional Head of Procurement for Deutsche Bank. He has over 10 years of industry and consulting experience within Banking, Government and Law and specialises in strategic cost management, procure-to-pay processing, procurement outsourcing and procurement transformation.
Jamie Bolton - Accenture
Jamie is Executive Partner responsible for Accenture’s North Asia Supply Chain Practice, located in Shanghai. Joining Accenture in 1993 he has a varied background in strategic consulting and 10 years in supply chain consulting. He has served clients across a variety of industries including telecommunications, consumer and industrial products, pulp and paper and utilities.
Jason Busch - Azul Partners
Jason Busch is editor of the blog www.spendmatters.com. In his day job, he also serves as Founder and Managing Director of Azul Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy that advises software and services companies.
Jim Robinson - BAE Systems
Having graduated in Engineering Jim spent 20 years in the Automotive industry largely in the Sourcing and Supplier Management arena. His early career was spent in Rover Group's car operations before leaving to become Director and General Manager of Toyota's new Procurement organisation at it's European greenfield operation in Derby.
John Henke - Planning Perspectives
John W. Henke Jr. is President of Planning Perspectives, a management consulting firm specialising in business-to-business marketing, purchasing, and buyer-supplier relations.
John Martin - IQNavigator
As Senior Vice President of Strategy and Technology for IQNavigator, John F. Martin leads software development and technical operations, as well as strategic planning activities, for the leading Services Procurement solution provider.
John P Hatton - BT
John joined BT earlier this year as Vendor Management Director, BT Operate - heading up a function primarily concerned with in-life vendor performance. His previous role was in a purely 'sourcing' consulting capacity with TradingPartners. This included responsibility for developing the company's "best cost sourcing" capabilities.
John Webster - Emptoris
John Webster is a Product Marketing Manager within Emptoris' European practice. With a strong background in business process consulting, he works closely with Emptoris customers, partners and prospects across all industries to define innovative strategies for supply management technologies and services.
Kevin Barrow - Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons
Kevin is head of the firm’s Recruitment sector group and specialises in recruitment and HR outsourcing, and corporate advice to companies in those areas. He advises on national and international IT, business process, HR and recruitment process outsourcing projects, on pan European outsourcings and regularly provides Board level advice to outsourcing and recruitment companies.
Kevin Freedman - Freedman International
Kevin Freedman is managing director of international marketing services agency Freedman International. Freedman founded the organisation in 1990, building it to a market leading position in the delivery of fast and effective international marketing communications.
Kirsty Clough - WWF UK
Kirsty Clough works in the Climate Change team at WWF-UK. The main focus of her work is on carbon markets with a specific focus on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme - both from a UK implementation perspective and increasingly at the EU level where the scheme is currently being reviewed and where the proposal to include aviation in the scheme is being considered.
Kris Timmermans - Accenture
Kris is a partner within Accenture’s Global Supply Chain Service Line, leading Accenture's Global Sourcing & Procurement practice of over 1800 experts.
Larry Beard - Severn Trent Water
Larry is currently the Purchasing & Supply Chain Management Director for Severn Trent Water - a FTSE 100 company with over 7 million customers. Prior to this Larry was the Global Purchasing Director for ESAB - the worlds largest manufacture of Welding consumables and equipment.
Mark Perera - Procurement Intelligence Unit
Following a successful early career spanning the technology, outsourcing and consulting arena, Mark co-founded the Procurement Leaders Network in 2004, to provide a platform for senior procurement executives to share knowledge and best practice.
Mark Simmons – Efficio
Mark Simmons joined Efficio as a Vice President in 2005. His areas of expertise include Direct Materials Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management and Low Cost Country Sourcing in the manufacturing sector. Mark has over 17 years of experience in consulting and industry. Prior to Efficio, he was Lead Partner of Ernst & Young’s Global Sourcing and Supplier Management Practice and a Principal at Booz Allen & Hamilton based in London.
Mark Whitehead - European Leaders in Procurement
Mark Whitehead is a journalist and public relations consultant specialising in procurement. He was deputy editor of Supply Management for five years and has also worked in editorial roles on local and national newspapers and magazines.
Mathew Harrowing - Etesius Ltd
Previously of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mathew has led the development and implementation of major P2P reviews throughout Europe. Mathew has over 15 years experience in delivering advanced Analytics and Recovery Audit solutions.
Meryl Bushell - BT Group
Meryl has been Chief Procurement Officer of BT Group, since Jan 2001. She is responsible for the full range of Procurement, Supply Chain and Property activities across BT group, with a particular interest in Corporate Social Responsibility.
Neil Deverill - Procurement Leaders Network
Neil is the current Chairman of the Procurement Leaders Network Advisory Board and former CPO of Royal Philips and Anglo American.
Olivier Durand - buyingTeam
Olivier joined buyingTeam in 2005 and is responsible for managing and developing European business. An expert in change management, he is currently leading a major re-organisation of pan-European purchasing and supply chain processes for a leading international music company.
Paddy Lawton - Digital Union
Paddy founded Digital Union in 1998 and has quickly established a portfolio of 160 market-leading customers in every major geography, taking the company from 3 employees to 40 in the process.
Patrick Scholler - HP
Patrick Scholler is currently Procurement Director at Hewlett-Packard. He has 27 years of international business operations experience, including 20 years in strategic sourcing.
Peter Hunt - ADR International
Peter Hunt is a leading thinker in integrating business and procurement strategies.
Before joining ADR International he held senior positions with British Airways and Wang Computers in Brussels.
Peter Spiller - McKinsey & Company
Peter Spiller is a Principal in the Frankfurt office of McKinsey & Company, dealing mainly with clients in the telecom equipment, aerospace and defense, and the semiconductor industries and focusing on operational improvement.
Philip Thornton
Phil Thornton is a Freelance business writer and economist, and has covered economic, industry, business and transport 15 years with a particular focus on economics and markets since 1999. Until recently he was economics correspondent at UK broadsheet newspaper, The Independent. He has covered the economy closely for the last decade and produced reports on the activities of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organisation.
Prof. Dr. Christopher Jahns - European Business School
Head of the SVI-Endowed Chair for Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the European Business School (ebs), International University Schloss Reichartshausen
Rebecca Howard - ADR International
Rebecca is an experienced procurement professional who has carried out assignments for some of the world’s biggest corporations.
Richard Edwards - Procurement Leaders
Richard Edwards is the news editor of Procurement Leaders. A business journalist, he is a regular contributor to a number of leading UK newspapers and magazines, including The Times and Sunday Express.
Richard McIntosh - ADR International
Richard has 18 years experience in procurement, as a practitioner in industry, as an interim manager and as a consultant. He has worked in procurement roles for several large organisations including Ford New Holland, KPMG Consulting, B&Q, Nokia, Visa and eircom.
Rob Rousou - ProcServe
Rob Rousou has worked with e-procurement systems since 1998. He has extensive experience in specifying and implementing a wide range of procurement technologies, including: Purchase-to-Pay systems, eMarketplaces/Exchanges, eTendering and eAuction systems.
Robin Jackson - ADR International
Robin Jackson, CEO of procurement consultants ADR Internataional, is one of the best-known and respected figures in the procurement world. He has held senior management positions with major corporations including Ford Motor Company, Philips Electronics and Nissan.
Robin B. Shahani - EquaTerra
Robin leads the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Practice at EquaTerra (Incorporating Morgan Chambers), one of the world's leading independent outsourcing and shared services advisory firms. He focuses on business process outsourcing (BPO), shared services, and internal transformation of the source-to-settle process and other key back office functions, as well as reviews of strategic expense areas, such as marketing and professional services.
Roger Moser, lic. oec. HSG - European Business School
Roger Moser is a research assistent at the Supply Management Institute SMI™ of the European Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany. Within the SMI, he is responsible for the development of the SMI Case Study Center and supports the respective lectures of the SVI-Endowed Chair of Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Roland Verdon - Estee Lauder
Roland Verdon has held the position of procurement director at the global biotechnology company Serono International since late 2003, where he has established a procurement policy and function from scratch at the company's headquarters in Geneva.
Sammy Rashed - Novartis
Sammy Rashed has 17+ years experience in Procurement management across various industries, and currently heads sourcing globally across Novartis' Pharmaceuticals sites. His areas of expertise include regional program deployment and talent development in the Sourcing function.
Sean Chou - Fieldglass
Sean Chou oversees all areas relating to technology at Fieldglass, including setting strategic direction, determining the product roadmap and managing technical operations.
Sean Devine - Emptoris Inc.
Devine has led over 75 optimization-driven projects totaling over $4 billion in goods while saving customers over $450 million dollars. Devine is well known in the industry and has developed a multitude of innovative approaches to solving the complex supply management problems of many Fortune 1000 organizations.
Stephen Fletcher - PSD Group
Stephen Fletcher is a Director at PSD and heads up the PSD Senior Procurement team.
Steve Hall - Procurement Leaders
Prior to his senior staff writer role at Procurement Leaders, Steve worked on various publications at legal publishing house Legalease.
Sue Welland - Carbon Neutral
Sue Welland is founder and Executive Director, Marketing, at The Carbon Neutral Company. She co-founded the company in 1997 after 15 years experience in integrated marketing communications including 5 years in global marketing at British Airways, Eurotunnel, and Visa International.
Susan McLean - Morrison & Foerster
Susan McLean is an associate in the London office of Morrison and Foerster and a member of the Technology Transactions Group and the Global Sourcing Group.
Sven Anders Stegare - SEB Group
Sven-Anders Stegare has been chief procurement officer at SEB since 2004. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering majoring in Industrial Economics and Management from the Royal University of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Terry Wilcox - Proactis
Terry is Commercial Director at Proactis with responsibility for managing the company's commercial operations in the UK and developing new channels-to-market across EMEA and the USA. With extensive Pan-European and Middle Eastern sales and management experience, Terry is instrumental in developing the corporate brand and positioning the company across international market boundaries.
Venu Nagali - HP
Venu Nagali is a Distinguished Technologist with and leads HP's Procurement Risk Management (PRM) Group. In July of 2000 he co-founded the PRM program at HP with the charter to enable the proactive measurement and management of supply chain risks. He invented the quantitative framework for PRM that forms the basis of the program being implemented at HP.
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