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Building Resilient Supply Chains: Innovating for Sustainability and Business Growth
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Building Resilient Supply Chains: Innovating for Sustainability and Business Growth

March 24, 2025

EcoVadis is a purpose-driven company providing globally trusted sustainability intelligence with our interactive platform to help organizations comply with ESG regulations, reduce GHG emissions, and create value. Our scorecards, benchmarks, tools & insights guide an improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices for 130,000+ businesses in 220 industries and 180 countries.

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Striking the Balance Between Risk, Cost, and Control — A Conversation with Pieter de Wit of BCI Global
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Striking the Balance Between Risk, Cost, and Control — A Conversation with Pieter de Wit of BCI Global

October 21, 2024

Pieter de Wit studied Supply Chain Management at the Transport Academy in Venlo and the TIAS (MBA) in Tilburg, the Netherlands and has been associated with BCI Global since 2021.

Pieter has fulfilled various leadership roles for decades at large logistics service providers both nationally and internationally (particularly in Asia: Hong Kong 5 years, Shanghai 5 years and Singapore 5 years). He is an expert in supply chain optimization and logistics outsourcing in various sectors, both up-stream (mostly control towers) and down-stream (with many e-fulfillment solutions recently).

Over the years, Pieter has led dozens of projects and operations. Examples are: Amazon, L’Oréal, LVMH, FastRetail, Lego, SC Johnson, JnJ, 3M, Honeywell, Kärcher, Bosch, Schneider Electric, Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, Yamaha Music, Belkin, Baxter, BD, Sanofi, Airbus.

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Join Our Discussion to Explore How AI is Enabling Intelligent and Targeted Risk Response to Your Supply Chain
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Join Our Discussion to Explore How AI is Enabling Intelligent and Targeted Risk Response to Your Supply Chain

September 27, 2024

Don’t boil the ocean – focus your resources on specific and prioritized challenges. You don’t have enough resources to manage everything. — David PetrucciManaging Director, Global Supply Chain & Operations PracticeProtiviti David Petrucci is a managing director with global consulting firm Protiviti and leader of its Global Supply Chain and Operations practice. He has 30 years of experience in supply chain and operational improvement and innovation in technology, consulting and industry roles. David has assisted companies in a variety of industry sectors, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, energy and defense, to reimagine their supply chains and balance efficiency with flexibility…

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Fireside Chat: Navigating the Future: Scaling Secure AI Amidst Emerging Policies and Privacy Challenges
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Fireside Chat: Navigating the Future: Scaling Secure AI Amidst Emerging Policies and Privacy Challenges

July 2, 2024

Xochitl Monteon is Intel’s Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and VP of Cybersecurity Governance, Risk and Compliance in Information Security. As the CPO, Xochitl plays a pivotal role in leading Intel through the complex landscape of global privacy, AI, and cybersecurity legislation to seamlessly operationalize compliance while enabling continued business innovation. Xochitl’s expertise lies in her ability to integrate rigorous privacy policies with robust cybersecurity frameworks, fostering a secure and compliant digital environment. Her leadership is characterized by a proactive approach to emerging threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring that privacy and security considerations are at the forefront of corporate governance.

Xochitl has worked in the technology industry for 30 years. Prior to joining Intel, she worked for McAfee and PayPal in Senior leadership positions. Her tenure includes pivotal roles in a wide array of sectors such as high-tech manufacturing, SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, finance, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, education, and the broader technology landscape.

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‘Shift Up’ Observability of Your Custom Software Security Risks and Beyond
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‘Shift Up’ Observability of Your Custom Software Security Risks and Beyond

June 26, 2024

As Vice President of Product for CAST Highlight, Greg leads strategy for the CAST SaaS product helping CIOs, CTOs, and software leaders control open source risks, reduce technical debt, accelerate application modernization / cloud migration, and make greener software. He has held technology leadership roles with Fortune 1000 companies such as Microsoft, IDG, and Arrow Electronics for over 25 years. Greg has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Management of Technology and is passionate about applying technology to improve business and our everyday lives.

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Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing & Compliance Strategy
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Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing & Compliance Strategy

May 17, 2024

Anil Sawant is Senior Vice President, Global Quality Compliance at Merck. He is a healthcare Executive with over 35 years of operations experience in Quality Operations, Ethics & Compliance, Research Integrity and Auditing functions. A strategic thinker experienced in development and deployment of management controls, governance processes, and quality and compliance systems in diverse business environments and cultures. Anil leads groups managing branded and generic products, small molecules, vaccines, bio-pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer products. He was part of the teams that commercialized the first antibody-drug conjugate product and first photoactive drug. Expertise in interpretation of GMPs, GLPs, and GCPs. Good understanding of SOX, Anti-Kickback, Anti-Trust, Privacy and FCPA. Skilled crisis manager and pragmatic thinker with excellent understanding of regulatory requirements, global pharmaceutical supply chain and R&D operations. Extensive experience in resolving compliance matters with US FDA and international regulatory agencies. Subject matter expert in pharmaceutical microbiology and aseptic processing.

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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation
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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation

September 22, 2023

Michael Conley is a seasoned Supply Chain professional with over three decades of experience in industry and management consulting. His career spans industries from Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Goods to Electronics, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, plus extensive work in Corporate ESG within the technology sector. Michael has robust, end-to-end expertise across the Supply Chain, including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Management, Manufacturing & Operations, Logistics, and Procurement. Recognized for leading enterprise-wide transformations that deliver maximum operational and financial performance, Michael consistently drives disparate functional groups into cohesive, connected planning teams.

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Integrated Business Planning, Resiliency, and Risk in the Supply Chain — A Conversation with Michael Conley of Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik
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Integrated Business Planning, Resiliency, and Risk in the Supply Chain — A Conversation with Michael Conley of Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik

January 25, 2024

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we spoke with Michael Conley, a Technology Consulting Advisor with Wolters Kluwer, on Integrated Business Planning and its growing role in the world of supply chain professionals. How should organizations rethink their decision-making and planning to bring department heads together? How should teams share information and data to have a clear picture of shared objectives and obstacles? How can Finance be moved from a gatekeeper and final arbitrator into an equal partner and collaborator as supply chain leaders work day-to-day and think in the long-term? It is a fascinating and important idea, and it may well be the future of most businesses. Give this episode a listen, and see what you think.

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Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain
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Risk is Inevitable–Disruption is Optional: Building a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain

July 5, 2023

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.

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How a Single Platform Solution Can Drive Action Across the Entire Manufacturing Value Chain to Lower Costs, Increase Productivity and Reduce Operating Risk
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How a Single Platform Solution Can Drive Action Across the Entire Manufacturing Value Chain to Lower Costs, Increase Productivity and Reduce Operating Risk

April 26, 2023

John Dougherty has been working with companies in the Industrial Manufacturing, High Tech, Aero Space and Defense, Retail, Wholesale Distribution, and Consumer Packaged Goods industries for the past 24 years with both Symix Software, Oracle, and NetSuite. John is currently Head of Manufacturing for the Americas with ServiceNow. A big part of his role is meeting with companies who are either on or just starting their digital transformation journey in manufacturing and supply chain. 

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Creating and Maintaining a Resilient Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic
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Creating and Maintaining a Resilient Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic

April 8, 2022

How do you define a supply chain? The what, the who, the where and the how Risk categorization Impact, probability and detectability Risk approach Detection, prevention/mitigation and response Near-miss lessons learned — Ken Kent SVP, Chemical Development and Manufacturing Operations Gilead Ken is the Senior Vice President of Chemical Development and Manufacturing Operations. He is responsible for Gilead’s entire drug substance supply and oversees process R&D functions in Foster City and Edmonton, as well as internal and outsourced manufacturing. He played a critical role leading CDMO in sourcing ingredients and scaling up production of remdesivir drug substance, to speed up…

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Compliance, Quality, and Risk – A Conversation with Jack Garvey of Compliance Architects
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Compliance, Quality, and Risk – A Conversation with Jack Garvey of Compliance Architects

November 25, 2019

At the 2019 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series earlier this month in San Diego we spoke with Jack Garvey, Compliance Architects’ co-founder and CEO. Jack has chaired the Quality stream of content for several Biomanufacturing World Summits, and he has deep insights to offer biopharmaceutical manufacturers looking to communicate with regulators and build their organizations to better address the issues of Compliance, Quality, and Risk. — Jack Garvey CEO Compliance Architects Jack Garvey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Compliance Architects®, a leading consulting and advisory firm specializing in innovative quality and compliance solutions for FDA-regulated…

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Managing Risk and Supply Chain Disruption

October 19, 2017

– The Microsoft Cloud is a rapidly expanding and delivering broad services globally with extensive investment in networking and data center infrastructure – Building and managing this infrastructure is a massive challenge, fraught with volatility and risks in facilities, networking and the supply chain – Planning, foresight, and responsiveness are critical to managing risk and guarding against disruptions — Based in Redmond, WA, Chuck Graham, General Manager, Cloud Sourcing & Supply Chain at Microsoft Corporation, is responsible for sourcing and supply chain of all IT hardware and services needed to position Microsoft as a world class cloud services provider. Specific responsibilities…

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