Douglas sits on the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and is Certified SCOR® Trainer and adjunct faculty at the International University of Monaco and France's ESC Lille - School of Management.

As eKNOWtion's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Supply Chain Operations Excellence practice leader, Douglas has over twenty years of experience focused on the development, marketing and deployment of tailored supply chain solutions for companies across a wide variety of industry sectors.

Before joining eKNOWtion, Douglas was a Principal Consultant of management consultants Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and formerly served as the Vice President for the Integrated Material Services division of Avnet Inc.

Douglas is an MBA graduate from Pepperdine University's School of Management and studied at Harvard University during his post-graduate years. Douglas is also a frequent lecturer and author of many Supply Chain articles. Through formalized business process reengineering techniques, Douglas drives Operations Excellence by utilising the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model as the baseline for many improvement activities ranging from the initial diagnostic, through re-engineering and change management, benchmarking and continuing education. His approach stems from the unique combination of experiences as a successful practitioner, consultant and educator of Supply Chain best practices.

Christian Verstraete, CTO for HP's Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide, has been a member of HP's manufacturing team for more than 28 years. Verstraete is responsible for thought leadership and innovation - scanning industry and technology trends and assessing their mid/longer term effect on emerging MDI business opportunities and how to capitalize on these. He is the linkage to the CTO community both inside HP and with our customers and partners.

Prior to his current position, Verstraete was responsible for the development of solutions for the Manufacturing & Distribution Industry. Before that he 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.

After having participated in the planning of the HP/Compaq merger, 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 in all segments of the Manufacturing Industry.

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 is a featured speaker at several global supply chain events. He is one of the authors of “Connected Manufacturing, Thought-provoking essays from industry leaders” and of “Collaborative Sourcing, Strategic Value Creation through Collaborative Supplier Relationship Management”.

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.

Bart Ras is currently responsible for Supply Base Risk Management at Philips.
Bart studied Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology, followed by education at the ACT.
He started his career with ING Bank (1996) as a derivative trader, and quickly moved into Treasury Management.
'Despite my general interest in finance, I am drawn especially to develop finance solutions for every day usage to optimize current processes. I was keen to put into practice those concepts which many only deal with in theory.'

In 2005 Bart started at Philips Corporate Treasury. Bart was responsible for FX risk management and later fulfilled the role as Senior Treasury Risk Consultant. In 2008 Bart took the role as Supply Base Risk manager in which not only measuring of supply risks were part but also new ways of mitigation were introduced at Philips like supply chain finance.

Jesus Llorente Lopez
Jesus has a broad experience in Supply Chain at global, regional and local levels. He spent 18 years at Unilever where he worked in the Home and Personal Care Division in Spain, USA and UK where responsibilities included the design of a long term global supply chain for new and existing products. Jesus also actively collaborated in the design of the new Global Supply Chain approach within Unilever.

In November 2009, Jesus left Unilever to become Supply Chain Director at Carrefour Spain. Carrefour is the world?s second-largest retailer and the largest in Europe, the group currently operates four main grocery store formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, hard discount and convenience stores.
The Carrefour group currently has over 15,000 stores, either
company-operated or franchises.

Alexander Mutter is Director of Deutsche Bank AG responsible for Trade & Supply Chain Solutions in EMEA region. He is running the client advisory and solution structuring for Financial Supply Chain activities. Alexander has more than twenty years experience in Working Capital and Financial Supply Chain Management business areas.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank he held numerous positions as a Manager of Transactional Banking product lines, Working Capital Advisory and Industry Portfolios at Citigroup and ABN AMRO.

Michael Scholl was appointed Director Opel / Vauxhall Supply Chain in November 2008.
He is a part of the Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Management in Europe.

Michael began his professional career with General Motors in 1991 as Project Coordinator in the area of Material & Production Control Europe, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
Within the next 7 years he held various management functions within Production & Logistics Control and Trading Partner Communications. In May 1998 Michael was promoted to an International Assignment to GM North America, USA, and he took over the position as Manager Lean Materials Management at Delphi-E, Rochester, New York. While in the States he held various project management assignments. Upon repatriation in December 1999 Michael assumed the responsibility as Manager Global Supplier Capacity Planning & Control. After two years he
moved to European Sales Operations and became Carline Manager for the Vectra / Signum and Omega product lines.

In 2003 he took over the position as Director Supply Chain End-to-End Planning. In this function he managed the cross-functional optimization of the Order-to-Delivery Business Model together with Sales and Manufacturing and transformed this function into the Supply Chain Planning department.

Michael Scholl holds a master’s degree in geography and business administration from the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/M., Germany. He is a member of the Logistics Strategy Board of the German Automotive Association (VDA).

Having graduated from Leicester University in the UK, my risk management experience began with BAE SYSTEMS in 1987, working in their corporate insurance and risk management function. As the risk management part of the function expanded, my preference was to work in this domain. Having obtained an Associateship in insurance, it was then necessary to obtain the equivalent risk management qualification. After providing support to all the BAE subsidiaries I joined the Airbus subsidiary in Filton to establish a risk management function. In 2001 I moved to Toulouse as part of the integration of Airbus into a single entity. I continued to work in risk management for a number of years including a secondment as risk manager on the A380 programme! In 2003 I moved into a broader job role related to a major business improvement programme. This experience allowed a move into Procurement to establish and ensure delivery of a further improvement initiative (Power8). I now manage a team covering subjects including strategy, performance management, future programmes and of course, risk management.

Colin Ive MBA MBCI
Colin has wide ranging experience gained in over 30 years of business and in parallel 26 years as a fire officer commanding a busy part time fire station in England, where he managed disasters on almost a daily basis until his retirement from this role in 2006. This has provided him with a unique insight into the importance of Disaster and Business Continuity Management. Following the completion of his MBA in 2000 Colin became the
Chief IT Risk & Continuity Manager at Nokia. During his time in this important role he introduced and established the Business Continuity Management (BCM) processes and procedures, coupled with providing on site training and subsequent exercising in Europe, the Middle and Far East, and both South and North America. Subsequently he designed a cost effective BCM e-learning program, essential to a global business with one of the
most recognised brands in the world.

A Member of the Business Continuity Institute and qualified Lead Auditor for ISO9001 & BS25999 he has presented at European and USA Business Continuity Conferences and was a contributing author to the Business Continuity Institute "Good Practice Guide for Business Continuity Planning 2005.

As the Head of Enterprise Risk Management for BT, Bill Aujla is
responsible for the ongoing development and application of ERM in a multi faceted, Global Company. As a fully qualified chartered accountant Bill was recruited in 2000 as part of the companies strategy to develop a risk framework that would create a world class risk culture. ERM continues to be embedded within the company with playing a major role in supporting the business on a global scale and in managing its key risks.

 Chairman of Unilever Europe Manufacturing Board

Chartered Engineer with 20 years Supply Chain experience in Unilever Manufacturing, Project Engineering,
Logistics & Purchasing

Responsible for:
- Driving Manufacturing Programme for Unilever Europe
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing
- Responsiveness and Technology
- Mindset and Communication
- Homecare Supply Chain in Spain
- Manufacture of 140,000 Tonnes of Homecare Powders & Liquids
- Operational Imperatives - Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, People
- Restructuring of Site between 2006 and 2010
- Customer Service of Homecare products in Spain, France, & Portugal
- Stock level of Homecare products in Spain, France, & Portugal
- Innovation delivery in Homecare

Prof. Dr. Michael Henke is a Senior Professor at the European Business School. He currently holds the Chair of Financial Supply Management at the Supply Chain Management Institute in Wiesbaden.
His teaching and research is focused on Supply Chain Management, in particular Supply Risk and Performance Management, Supply Controlling, Financial and Management Accounting in the Supply Chain. He has authored a number of journal and trade articles, as well as books, including "Supply Risk Management: Planung, Steuerung und Überwachung von Supply Chains." Michael is a member of the academic International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM).
Prior to joining EBS as a Senior Professor, he worked as Senior Consultant with the Supply Management Group in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Danny studied Business Economics at the University of Leuven where he obtained a MBA, with a focus in industrial policies and quantitative techniques. He started his career in the fertilizer chemicals at Norsk Hydro (currently Yara), initially as a business analyst, later as IT manager for the Dutch plant and the Brussels headquarter. Next, Danny joined Soft Cell, a midsize ERP vendor where he was chief designer and product manager for the standard software ERP package. He was also involved in the design and implementation of ERP and APS systems for
multinational customers in the chemical, food&bev, textile and engineering industry branches.
In 2000, Danny joined MÖBIUS, a management consulting firm with focus on Supply Chain Management and Business Process Management. His focus is on supply chain strategy and demand chain planning projects (e.g. S&OP and Integrated Business Planning). Danny was also partner in charge for the Supply Chain Risk Management research project, conducted jointly by MÖBIUS and the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School. As such, Danny leads most of the SC Risk Mgt projects MÖBIUS executes for its international customer base.

Matt Zaleski is the CEO of Procurence, a start-up providing advanced web-based solutions for supply chain risk management. He is also heading the Performance Measurement practice at the BrainNet Supply Management Group AG.

In his prior career as a management consultant, he specialised in supply risk management and supplier management. He has extensive experience in business partner assessment at DAX 30 and FORTUNE 500 companies, both upstream (roll-out of supplier assessment at Fresenius Medical Care, supplier risk management at T-Mobile) and downstream (dealer assessment at Mitsubishi Motors, Ford Group VW Group, Nissan). He has also held a number of seminars on procurement topics (supplier management, supplier insolvency). He holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and CEMS (Community of European Management Schools).