 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
 |
Speaker's BiosChris Hendrix Bio coming soon... Jeff
Warmington Jeff Warmington joined Office Depot in November of 2006 as VP of Procurement, responsible for procurement and inventory activities for Non-Trade goods and services. Jeff came to Office Depot from DHL Express and Deutsche Post World Net, where he was the Head of Procurement for the Americas, and a member of the DPWN Global Procurement Board. He has over 20 years of procurement, purchasing, and supply chain experience with many years and positions in the military and with such world class companies as GE, Arthur Andersen, and DHL. He has experience in many commodities, including IT/Telecoms, MRO, fuels, high tech components, equipment and parts, administrative supplies, manufacturing support supplies and equipment, and a variety of services. Jeff also has successfully completed procurement organization start ups and integrations in support of headquarters relocations and company acquisitions. In this capacity, he has integrated multiple procurement systems, including SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle, and Ariba. He also served as the project manager for the implementation of Ariba and SAP within the Americas. Throughout his career, Jeff has led cost reduction and process improvement programs, gaining expertise in Total Quality Management, ISO, and Six Sigma continuous improvement techniques. During these efforts, he attained certification as a Six Sigma Green Belt, and completed Black Belt training. A graduate of the US Naval Academy, in Annapolis, MD and the holder of Master’s Degrees from Webster University and the Navy Postgraduate School, Jeff focused his formal education on technology, business management, and procurement. He further holds certification as a Certified Professional Contracts Manager through the National Contract Management Association, and has taught Master’s Level courses of instruction in procurement and contract administration. Jeff is an active outdoors person, with interests in boating, fishing, skiing, and do it yourself projects around the house. He is married with an 19 year old son and a 16 year old daughter.
Onye Mba Uzoukwu is the Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer of Chiquita Brands International with global management responsibility for over US$1.5 billion in annual spending. Prior to his position at Chiquita, Mr. Uzoukwu was the Managing Partner of Anthill Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in the technology and telecommunications sector in Africa. Earlier in his career he was the Vice President of Global Procurement of Avaya, responsible for US$3.5 Billion in spending worldwide. Before joining Avaya, he was an executive in Solectron Corporation where as the Corporate Director for Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions he successfully completed M&A transactions valued in excess of US$5.5 billion in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Additionally he executed joint venture/alliance agreements in Southeast Asia, Singapore, and South Korea. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of U.S Robotics, a Consular Member of the World Affairs Council, and a volunteer/sponsor of Habitat for Humanity and the Heifer Project.Pat Doscher
Pat Doscher currently leads the Environment Health and Safety organization for Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ Global Partners. In this role, Pat develops the strategy for mitigating the risks associated with EHS regulations and promoting stewardship across the supply chain. She also leads the employee Health and Safety program for Global Partners. In addition to this assignment, Pat managed the Global Partners Warranties group for several years. Before her assignments with Global Partners, Pat worked as a research scientist and key engineer in the Boeing Defense and Space Group’s Research and Engineering Division. Her work on environmentally-preferred materials and processes resulted in four US patents and a Boeing Special Invention award. Pat started with Boeing in 1979, as a materials scientist in the Boeing Aerospace Company (now Integrated Defense Systems). In this position, she developed technical content for Boeing material and process specifications and supported defense and space programs on a variety of finishes and corrosion-control issues. She attended the University of Washington, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in 1971. She received a Master’s Degree and a Certificate of Advanced Study beyond the Master’s from the State University of New York in 1977.Pat Beattie
Dr. Beattie is currently Director of Chemical Risk Management, Environmental Services, Worldwide Facilities Group. She has been with GM for over 25 years, providing toxicology expertise to plants, divisions and staffs on a wide variety of occupational and environmental health issues. She is also responsible for industrial hygiene, chemical and resource management programs, chemical and environmental information systems, and design-in/pollution prevention activities for the Corporation. Dr. Beattie holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Michigan. She is board certified by the American Board of Toxicology, a current member of both the National and Michigan Society of Toxicology, and past president of the Michigan Society of Toxicology. Chris O’Brien
With an MS (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute) and a BA (Penn State) both focusing on Science, Technology and Society, Chris' motivating interest is in using the power of the marketplace to create a more just and sustainable society. He has ten years experience working to promote corporate responsibility and served as Director of the Co-op America Business Network and the Fair Trade Federation, two of America's leading green and fair business associations. He is also part owner of a small green business, the Seven Bridges Cooperative, the world's only supplier of all organic and fair trade homebrewing and home coffee-roasting supplies. Chris authored Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, scheduled for release fall 2006 on New Society Publishers. He has also lived, worked and traveled extensively in Africa. Edan Dionne
Edan Dionne is Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs at IBM Corporation. IBM’s Corporate Environmental Affairs staff sets the company’s global strategy and oversees its programs and performance worldwide in environment, energy and climate, product and process environmental stewardship. She joined IBM in 1983 as environmental engineer at a semiconductor plant in the general technology division. She became part of IBM’s corporate environmental affairs staff in 1990. Prior to assuming her current position, her experience included managing a wide range of environmental and climate protection programs, partnership with others in industry, the USEPA and nongovernmental organizations. She assumed her present position in 2002. Ms. Dionne has a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering.Sherrie Moomey A passionate innovator, Sherrie has spent the last 20 plus years in multiple key roles in the supply chain, ranging from retail and inventory management, to sourcing and strategic planning, process improvement, Sarbanes-Oxley Initiatives and business technology enhancement including automated workflow. Sherrie’s abilities as a change agent have helped her success as she has identified process and procurement opportunities within the companies she has worked for. Sherrie combines her procurement technical skills and commodity knowledge with her abilities to facilitate cross functional and cross cultural teams; research and assess data; and conceptualise, strategize and create processes and systems. As a Procurement Manager at Nike, Inc., these abilities, and the changes they have produced not only helped her team deliver significant cost savings but they have also helped Nike become a more sustainable company. Sherrie began leveraging her abilities as a change agent to create more sustainable practices in her companies 15 years ago, when she was a senior buyer for a software company, seeking high quality, high post consumer content recycled paper for software documentation. After Sherrie moved to Nike, the need for clarity in the industry over what constituted “environmentally friendly” paper, led her to initiate Nike’s first scorecard to measure different sustainable attributes of paper companies. Her team looked beyond the percentage of recycled content in the paper and the sources of the fibre, the main measures of sustainability at the time, and created a scorecard that measured a variety of sustainable practices, including chlorine free manufacturing processes, and chain of custody for old growth timber. This scorecard allowed Nike business units to evaluate potential paper products in a number of areas, and choose the most sustainable paper products that also met the physical characteristics required by the project. In April 2007, Nike released its corporate responsibility report for FY05-06, which detailed a number of aggressive targets that Nike wants to achieve in the next thirteen years, with the first target in 2011. Targets include reduced CO2 emissions for transportation and travel, climate neutral facilities and travel and environmentally preferred materials in our equipment. Sherrie is currently employing her skills to help Nike achieve these ambitions targets by leading the indirect procurement team in developing metrics for evaluating supplier’s sustainable practices corporately and setting procurement targets aligned with Nike’s corporate targets. Kristin Pierre Bio coming soon... Naseem A. Malik Bio coming soon... Mary Ellen Mika
Mary Ellen Mika is Manager of Environmental and Supplier Diversity initiatives within the Steelcase Supply Chain department. She leads the Green Suppliers Network program for Steelcase, assists with materials chemistry and life cycle analysis efforts, supports supplier diversity initiatives, and is responsible for energy purchases for Steelcase North America. Prior to her role in Supply Chain, Mary Ellen worked as an environmental professional, serving on the board of the Air & Waste Management Association and as Chair of the Michigan Manufacturers Association, Air Quality Subcommittee. Kevin McGilvray Bio coming soon... Kirk Eberhart
As Global Director of Supply Chain, Kirk works closely with the internal stakeholders and leadership team at Material Sciences Corporation (MSC) to identify emerging opportunities for savings and expense reduction in all aspects of the supply chain. Specific areas that have recently been pursued at MSC include improved negotiation preparations, alternate logistics solutions, improved inventory management, and purchasing in low cost countries. His area of expertise includes:
With over fifteen years of purchasing and supply chain experience, Kirk's background includes a number of experiences ranging from multi-facility purchasing responsibility to Supply Chain design and implementation. His success in managing corporate supply chains was built on a foundation of 15 years plant operations experience where he held a variety of management positions. This unique background has enabled Kirk to be a successful Supply Chain change agent as the global market place continues to evolve. Kirk has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus in Management. He also holds a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) certificate from the Institute of Supply Management. Yalmaz Siddiqui
Yalmaz Siddiqui, is Office Depot’s Environmental Strategy Advisor. He is responsible for advising the company on the development and integration of a wide range of environmental programs into the global organization. Office Depot’s industry-leading environmental programs span all parts of the company - from the supply chain (buying green) to internal operations (being green), to business and consumer markets (selling green). Siddiqui’s role includes improving the understanding of environmental issues and opportunities among suppliers, associates and customers. His goal is to help improve the environmental performance of Office Depot and its range of stakeholders. Siddiqui also oversees Office Depot’s five-year, $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (www.forestryalliance.org), which develops critical information, standards and tools for global forest and biodiversity conservation. The Alliance is Office Depot’s collaboration with Conservation International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy, three of the world’s most respected science-based conservation organizations. Siddiqui came to Office Depot in April of 2006 from IBM Business Consulting Services in Canada where he was a Senior Consultant in Customer Relationship Management, and author of the first global study on environmental procurement of wood and paper products. Before joining IBM, Siddiqui was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused on the forest, paper and packaging industries. Siddiqui holds a Master’s Degree in Environment & Development from Cambridge University in England, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Marketing & International Business from McGill University in Canada. John LaPorta Bio coming soon... Paul Wittenbrock Bio coming soon... John Campi Bio coming soon... Christian Verstraete
Christian Verstraete, worldwide Senior Director for HP’s Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide Solutions & Technology Integration Group, has been a member of HP’s manufacturing team for more than 26 years. Verstraete is responsible for identifying and developing HP’s differentiated portfolio of horizontal and vertical solutions for the manufacturing industries. His group is tasked with creating field-ready solutions that meet the specific needs of customers, geographies and HP’s Technology Solutions Group (TSG) business units. Prior to his current position, Verstraete led HP’s global High-Tech Industry Group and its manufacturing industries Supply Chain go-to-market strategy where he was responsible for growing the company’s $300 million consulting and system integration business. As vice president, Manufacturing Industry Practice, he headed HP’s manufacturing practice within the Consulting and Integration business unit from 2002 to 2004 The 1200 consultants he led created and delivered solutions in the areas of supply chain, procurement and sourcing, product lifecycle collaboration, demand chain and collaborative business integration. The team also developed specific offerings for customers in the automotive, high-tech, pharmaceutical, and energy sectors. Prior to that, Verstraete served as the Global Lead in the Extended Manufacturing Practice and the Supply Chain Infrastructure and EAI. From his first HP job as a systems engineer through project, regional, district and global management, Verstraete has concentrated on developing, marketing and advancing infrastructure services. Frequently published in periodicals, Verstraete has been a featured speaker at several global supply chain events. Verstraete’s latest book, Collaborative Sourcing, Strategic Value Creation through Collaborative Supplier Relationship Management, is currently available at www.i6doc.com. Verstraete holds a mechanical engineering degree from the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium and a degree in industrial management from Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, also in Belgium. He is based in Brussels, Belgium.Tim Reeve
Tim Reeve, BA Tim has a background in environmental management and recycling and has developed a unique specialization within sustainability purchasing, ethical sourcing and supply chain management. In 2002/2003 he worked at the 2010 Bid Corporation planning purchasing, sustainability and corporate responsibility strategies for a potential 2010 Games in Vancouver and Canada. Tim has spent over 15 years helping a variety of public, private and non-for profit organizations optimize their and environmental and community programming. He has a Bachelors’ degree from Queen’s University with a major in Mathematics. Neither a numbers geek nor a tree-hugger, Tim offers a wealth of practical experience working from the ‘inside’ to develop real, cost-effective and impactful sustainability and eco-efficiency programs for businesses and institutions. Tim is a regular speaker, trainer and facilitator locally and internationally on purchasing and sustainability issues. He lives in English Bay in the West End of Vancouver, is a father to a wonderful 4 year old daughter named Olivia Reeve, and is a keen alpine skier and open water swimmer. Additional Detail if Desired
Richard Kouwenhoven General Manager Digital Services, Hemlock Printers based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Serves as the chair of the company's Sustainability Committee which has overseen a number of initiatives which has brought widespread recognition to the independant family owned business. Also serves as the chair the Sustainability Purchasing Network (buysmartbc.com), a Vancouver based association dedicated to advancing sustainable procurement in the region. Hemlock Printers was named Most Environmentally Progressive Printer in Canada by PrintAction Magazine in 2006 and 2007 and the recipient of the Ethics In Action award for Environmental Excellence in 2005 Noah Kramer Bio coming soon... Frank Perkowski Frank Perkowski is President of Business Development Advisory (BDA), a specialized consulting firm focused on the paper and packaging industry. BDA helps industry producers, suppliers, investors, and customers identify and implement growth initiatives that improve results and financial performance. A key focus of the company is in the area of packaging where ongoing changes in technologies, materials, products, suppliers, and customer needs provide both opportunities and challenges for industry participants. Frank has been directly involved in the paper and packaging industry for over 25 years with leading companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Graphic Packaging, and Jacobs Engineering before founding BDA in 2002. His experience with these companies included senior positions in the areas of business management, marketing, and supply chain management that has provided the basis for his consulting practice. He has completed over 150 consulting projects, many of which have focused on packaging related opportunities and challenges in the areas of environmental performance, cost reduction, and supply chain optimization.Frank has advised leading packaged goods companies on how to maximize the performance of their packaging suppliers and has helped packaging suppliers improve their product offerings, competitive position, cost position, and capabilities to better meet customer needs. He is a frequent industry speaker, author of numerous articles and publications, and is on the Advisory Board of the Chlorine Free Products Association, an industry association dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of the pulp and paper industry. Frank is a certified management consultant (CMC) with a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Fordham. Martha Turner Bio coming soon... Norbert Dean Bio coming soon... Pierre Mitchell Bio coming soon... Don K Brown
Don is founder and CEO of EcoVelocity Associates, an international consulting firm which specializes in developing time-to-market, eco-friendly product and service strategies. Don has over 25 years of advising C-level executives, developing and marketing products, leading engineering functions, and driving complex product/technology programs. As a former executive of Dell, Don drove award winning, eco-friendly products and services, streamlined processes to reduce the time-to-market, and turned environmental challenges into wins. From 2002 to 2007, Don headed Dell’s Environmental Affairs along with various compliance engineering functions. He has a deep understanding of environmental market requirements. He has led teams, delivering compliance to emerging environmental product regulations in over 200 countries. He defined and advanced strategies for company-wide environmental product transitions. For these five years, Don led the quarterly product environmental updates at Dell with the Chairman, CEO, and senior line executives. As Director New Product Operations, Don spearheaded the global operations strategy for new desktop and workstation products. He drove introduction of new products into five factories across the globe. He championed the design practices for high velocity manufacturing and service, ergonomics, and logistics. While at IBM, Don headed the program management team, delivering G3 and G4 RISC microprocessors for Apple’s Power Mac and Power Book platforms. He steered development process re-engineering to reduce cycle time in IBM Systems Technology Division. Don led the product definition team for an award-winning IBM workstation. He has defined marketing strategies and established sales relationships leading to multi-million dollar technology contracts. He headed production engineering functions for multi-billion dollar workstation and semiconductor operations. He has authored several technical papers on semiconductor process technology. Don earned a Masters in Management from MIT and a Masters in Solid State Physics and Material Science from Columbia University. He served as Dell’s delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and The Prince of Wales’, Business and The Environment Programme. While at IBM, he earned a Masters Certification in program management from George Washington University. Don currently serves on the board of Keep Austin Beautiful. |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
| Silver Sponsor | |||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Lunch Sponsor | |||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
||
| Media Partners | ||||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
||||
|
|
|||
|
|||