Serving as the President of eKNOWtion and current Director of the Supply Chain Council - Europe, 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 and frequent speaker globally at Supply Chain related conferences. Douglas is Qualified SCOR® Trainer, Certified SCOR® Professional, and adjunct faculty at the International University of Monaco and France's SKEMA business school.

Andy Bulgin is the Principal of AB Risk Consulting. Andy is an experienced practitioner who has spent more than 25 years providing Risk Management leadership for a variety of major global companies. His expertise in creating, developing and embedding risk financing and enterprise Risk Management programmes into culturally diverse multinational blue-chip organisations has taken him around the world.

He has built up a reputation for providing pragmatic and cost-effective Risk Management in a broad range of sectors - including major publishing and packaging corporations, the textile and clothing industry and the soft drinks industry.

Since 2008 Director Logistics Automotive with a worldwide responsibility for the strategic interfaces to the business partners of Continental Automotive. This function also includes logistics improvement projects with the partners and the development of tools and processes to increase the supply chain performance and transparency.

Prior to that Karlheinz Dietz spent 8 years in Automotive logistics in production plants and central function and 13 years in several purchasing positions in the semiconductor industry.

During the last 10 years he was involved in the Odette projects to Supply Chain Monitoring and Demand Capacity Planning and in European projects in the environment of the 5-day-car initiative.

Group SVP ERM - Etisalat Telecom
This guest speaker heads up the Enterprise Risk Management function at Etisalat, he is responsible for the on-going development and application of ERM in a multi-faceted, Global Company. He is a qualified chartered accountant and has specialised in risk management for more than 15 years. Before joining Etisalat, he was the Head of ERM at BT for 8 years and has won awards for developing best in class risk management practices. Before BT, he worked in the risk management practices of both Ernst & Young and PwC and has conducted many seminars and workshops and consulting assignments in the area of risk management across a broad industry base. He is also a member of the Institute of Risk Management.

Industrial Engineer with more than 15 years of international experience in FMCG industry,
Had worked in Supply Chain and operations in all 5 continents. Initiated my career in Nestle, where I worked for 14 years and since last two years I am working for Unilever.
I had worked in Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, New Business Development, Industrial Strategy and as Internal Consulting for investment and Strategy.

VP Group Supply Chain Strategies and Sustainability
I am Responsible for Group Industrial and Operations Strategies and Sustainability in Manufacturing
My job is to define the best Industrial and investment strategy of Unilever across the world and across all product categories. This strategy has to be well aligned with Unilever ambition to double the size of the business while halving the environmental impact across all the value chain..
I am as well as responsible for Group Program for.

In Nestle
Operations Performance Director
Internal Consulting Manager
Manufacturing Manager
Industrial Engineer

Philippe Paban is Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing Systems at Renault. He is responsible for Renault Information Systems strategy, build and support for Renault Manufacturing and Logistics sites. He also leads IS for Eurasia region, including partnership with LADA car manufacturer. As ODETTE (European Automotive Standards Organization) Chairman of the Board, Philippe helps and promotes the emergence of Supply Chain standards including namely RFID and Supply Chain processes excellence for automotive manufacturers and suppliers.

Philippe has contributed to build new responses to improve Supply Chain Operations performance including long distance supply chain design and optimization, segmented supply chain responses and new ways of collaboration with suppliers. He has also developed cross-manufacturing solutions with automotive OEM partners as Nissan, Daimler-Benz and GM.

Prior to joining Renault, Philippe held several executive positions in Supply Chain and IS/IT including CIO for Technicolor, Head of Thomson Supply Chain Systems and Head of Supply Chain systems practice at BearingPoint.
 

From an Electronic engineering background, joined Avnet 26 years ago. Held various successive positions in sales and marketing management. For the past 15 years has actively developed and successfully implemented customer logistic and supply chain programs globally.
During the last year was part of the global team that launched Avnet
Velocity, the new organization within Avnet that develops and implements global supply chain solutions for Tier 1 OEM and component manufacturers Vice president of the SPDEI , French Electronic Distribution trade association French National, based in the Avnet Paris office.

Since 2007 Procurement Director Johnson & Johnson Coordination of the indirect procurement activities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Spend volume: 600M€ 1994 - 2006 Purchasing Positions in various businesses of Royal Philips Supply Base Manager of Automotive Playback Modules Purchasing volume: 200M€, 3 factories in Hungary,
Ukraine and China Responsible for an international purchasing
organization. Purchasing Manager of Medical Systems Purchasing Volume:
150M€; Improving a purchasing organization up to benchmark level. Purchasing Manager of Automotive Lighting Purchasing Volume: 50M€; Restructuring a purchasing organization. 1991 – 1994 Purchasing and Management Positions at KOSTAL GmbH & Co. KG 1986 – 1991 Purchasing and Assistant Positions at Audi AG

Vineet leads product management and marketing for SAP’s new Supplier InfoNet solution focused on business information networks and is a regular speaker at user conferences. He is responsible for driving product strategy and road map for these business-performance-content-based solutions. Vineet’s background includes leadership of enterprise software product portfolios related to business process improvements in areas of supply chain, enterprise marketing management, data security, and product design.

He has more than 16 years of experience in helping companies define and implement technology solutions, and has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, and development.

VP Value Chain Operations for EMEA, Cisco systems. Prior to that Head of Global Logistics for Ericsson and before that CEO Avure Technologies AB. Have 15 years experience from supply chain with telecom industry and have lived an worked in Latin America, North America and Europe. The red line through all assignments which also have come to be my specialty is driving business transformation.