Brian Seipel is a Consultant and the Spend Analysis Practice Lead at Source One, a Corcentric Company. He is focused on helping companies implement innovative solutions for driving revenue and expanding market share through procurement and strategic sourcing best practices. With a background combining Business Analysis, Information Technology, and Marketing, Seipel played an instrumental role in developing the proprietary spend classification taxonomy and user experience for SpendConsultant. Seipel is also a featured contributor to a number of thought leadership blogs.
Robin Gurney (UK) is the Content Strategist at Markit.eu which has been helping its clients succeed in reducing the total cost of their IT purchasing in a way that’s simple, efficient, smart and secure since 2003. Robin’s experience includes 35 years in sales and marketing, the last 20 focused on digital content strategy, applied neuromarketing and e-governance. Along the way he founded, ran and sold two international digital marketing agencies.
MyPurchasingCenter was founded in 2011 to provide procurement professionals with the information required to keep their companies competitive in a dynamic global marketplace. In 2020, MyPurchasingCenter was acquired by Buyers Meeting Point.
Dr. Tom DePaoli, (Dr. Tom) is currently an independent management consultant, the Principal of Apollo Solutions, which does general business consulting in the human resources, supply chain and lean six sigma areas. His organization was self-founded in 1995. He retired as a Captain from the Navy Reserve. In other civilian careers, he was a supply chain and human resources executive with corporate purchasing turnaround experience and lean six sigma deployments. He has worked for over ten major companies and consulted for over fifty organizations throughout his career. Some of his consulting projects include: information systems projects, re-engineering organizations, transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating. His industry experience is in the chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, government, consumer, equipment, services and consulting industries. He has been published extensively in journals, magazines and books. He is the author of eleven books all available on Amazon. He has instructed at six education facilities in numerous roles. He is active in supporting the YMCA, Wounded Warrior, and the prevention of the bullying of children.
Paulo Moretti is Principal at PM2Consult.com, a boutique consulting company focused on excellence in the purchasing function for manufacturing industries and market analysis of Chemicals & Plastics industries.
Prior to becoming Principal, he was Senior Consultant at Vantage Partners, and worked 35 years at The Dow Chemical Company, where he developed experience across such diverse areas as Manufacturing, R&D, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Strategic Planning, e-Business, and Purchasing.
Current assignments as SME for chemicals in consultant companies specialized in Purchasing include Advanced Purchasing Dynamics, Efficio Consulting, GEP Consulting, Maine Pointe, Preferred Sourcing Solutions, PLG Consulting, and Tenzing Consulting.
Sergii Dovgalenko is the Chief Procurement Officer in JSC “Ukrainian Railways” with 22 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies, where he contributed to some significant global procurement alliances and transformation projects.
Sergii has a specific interest in technology procurement, IT strategy and operational models, project management, and service delivery, to which he dedicated the book “The technology procurement handbook: a practical guide to digital buying”.
Sergii is a Fellow of CIPS (FCIPS) and a licensed tutor.
After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery, then was Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group. He is a Fellow and was 2003 President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, and has served as a non-executive director of two large public sector organisations and a growing private firm. He founded his consulting firm, Procurement Excellence Ltd. in 2004 and from 2010-18 he was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters Europe website, read by thousands of procurement professionals every day. His first co-authored book, (with Fiona Czerniawska), “Buying Professional Services” was published by The Economist Books in 2010. A second book, “A Procurement Compendium” was published in 2019, and Penguin Business is publishing his latest book in October 2020. “Bad Buying – How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups” lifts the lid on some amazing global stories of disaster in the business world!
As Managing Partner for the Americas for Consus Global, Saurabh has been instrumental in leading sales and operations in our fastest growing market. As a Procurement and Sourcing practitioner for nearly two decades, Saurabh has not only led procurement transformation initiatives but has also been responsible for leading Sourcing centers of excellence ensuring delivery of value from procurement and sourcing functions. He has done so by leading selection of solutions and services to enable procurement, being a change leader, and finally delivering and sustaining value to Procurement through establishing programs that sustain success over time.
Established in 2010, Consus is a global supply chain services provider with offices across 8 countries and customers in over 20 countries. With a growing portfolio of over 100 customers worldwide, Consus’ mission statement is: customer first. We believe that a measurable return on customer investment is critical to procurement success. This is the primary ethos behind our services offerings.
Saurabh routinely partners and collaborates with executives from our portfolio of global customers, helping them define their procurement vision and strategy and supporting them in realizing their vision and strategies through execution. With a deep multi-solution product knowledge, Saurabh is a self-professed “Procurement Nerd”.
Prior to joining Consus, Saurabh served as Director of Channel Sales at Ivalua, led Sourcing teams at Avon and Time Warner and led management consulting projects at Accenture. He also serves on the Advisory Board at Elicit Consulting.
Saurabh holds an MBA from NYU Stern with specializations in Strategy, Global Business and Leadership. He also holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Columbia University, New York.
Saurabh is based out of New York, Americas.
Tom Cummins is Senior Director, Global Procurement, for Synovos, the largest independent MRO supply chain services company in North America. He is responsible for the company’s strategic category management and OEM activities, working with his team in developing sourcing strategies that leverage the company’s $500 million spend.
Mohammed Kafil is a certified procurement consultant who has been coaching companies to establish resilient digital procurement operating models for over a decade now. At Kissflow Procurement Cloud, he helps mid-market and large enterprises with their digital transformation projects. In the recent past, he has also worked with Fortune 500 companies to implement platforms like Coupa, Ariba, Ivalua, and BuyerQuest.
Heta Ruikka is the Vice President of Product Management at Sievo, and she strives to develop Sievo as the best Procurement Analytics solution the world has ever seen. She holds a master’s degree from Aalto University in Industrial Engineering and Management, and has delved in the world of Product Management ever since graduating. As a young leader in the space, she aspires to change the world into a more open and data-driven one, where leadership is based on empathy and empowerment.
Sammeli Sammalkorpi is one of the two original co-founders who established Sievo in 2003. Hailing from the very north of Finland, his parents had hopes he would become a reindeer farmer but instead he turned into a software entrepreneur and procurement advocate. Sammeli founded Sievo after gaining experience in management consulting and enterprise information technology and is now the CEO of Sievo.
Flavia Ziarnik is a Procurement professional with over 15 years of experience in the Chemical, Cosmetic, Pharmaceutical and Consulting Industries. Flavia has worked globally, especially with Brazil, the United States and Asia. She is a Senior Director of Strategy & Transformation at Consus Global and lives in Wisconsin, USA. She has a background in Chemistry, with an MBA in Marketing and Operations and holds a CPSM certification. She is also a Purchasing and Supply Chain content creator for several platforms around the world.
Wen Xie is an elite prosecutor with a comprehensive understanding of the patent process in the United States, Europe, and across Asia, and experience overseeing the prosecution of applications around the world. Wen is familiar with actions and procedures from all the major national patent offices, including the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Wen has written hundreds of original patent applications, and has extensive experience with appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. She represents clients across various technological sectors including electro-mechanical, medical devices, and computer-operated control technologies. Wen is an expert on subject matter eligibility in the United States, particularly with respect to the patentability of software applications and computer-implemented technologies. She has published legal scholarship and speaks frequently on subject matter eligibility under the Alice and Mayo framework. Highly involved in the innovation community around the world, Wen is a member of the Forbes Business Council and the WINGS WorldQuest Junior Council. Wen hosts the IP Practice Vlogs by Global IP Counselors™, an original series of practice videos for the US IP practitioner. The series is co-published by IPWatchdog, the largest intellectual property publication in the world. Wen is also a leader in the Intellectual Property Owner’s Association, chairing the subcommittee in charge of the Diversity in Innovation Toolkit and working with leaders across the IP arena so that diverse inventors can be thoroughly recognized for their contribution to the innovative ecosphere.