Catherine leads the indirect procurement team in Weetabix with a focus on establishing business partnering and new ways of working with stakeholders, as well as a “cradle to grave” approach with suppliers through governance, improved supplier relationship management, driving innovation and best in class procurement practices. As well as leading the indirect strategy, she is an external coach to a number of non-direct reports within Weetabix and business partner to the sales, marketing and international teams.

Chris leads a global category with €900m+ total spend across media, all agency spend and research. With his team of 4 direct reports and network team of 40+, he coordinates global deals on media, research and creative; key markets across Europe, Americas and Asia. He also manages all commercial terms for contract implementation by local procurement teams. In addition he defines the approach and suite of tools for all operating companies to manage marketing spend where global deals are not appropriate.

Joerg oversees an indirect spend budget of 2.2 billion Euros for Boehringer Ingelheim’s purchasing organisation – including sourcing and procurement. In his role, he is directly responsible for capex and infrastructure, IT – internal business partner, Lab equipment and supplies, external services and logistics. He develops global strategies , coordinated centrally, but works closely with regional offices to ensure a harmonized indirect spend structure.

Nadia heads up the marketing procurement strategy where she defines and drives the category strategy across the UK&I marketing communications spend. In her role she focuses on value for money and innovative solutions to achieve L'Oréal’s business objectives. Nadia drives successful strategies to secure board level buy-in and ongoing engagement through sound business cases and communication plans and defines the SRM strategy to build strong suppliers partnerships and effective risk management.

Simon is directly responsible for a spend of €690m, where he leads his team of 33 for procurement and facilities, with a focus on organisational turnaround and revitalization. Recently Simon has achieved €15m year on year P&L savings, and reduced SGA by 50% over the same 5 year period. He focuses on aligning the value proposition to the organisation culture and Top Management buy-in.

Peter manages a spend of 600 million USD, heading up a team of 25. In his role, he has sourcing responsibility for OM&S Sourcing (Operating Materials & Services, Office Supplies, Laboratory and Personal Protection Equipment, Capital Investment Buy (Construction & Equipment), Environmental, Travel, Hotel & Fleet, HR Services & Insurances, Temp. Labour and Marketing & Communication.

Bo is directly responsible for all procurement for the Banking Category, with a large focus on Disruption, and FinTECHs. He heads up spend for Financial Infrastructure, Payments, MobilePay & MobileLife Sunday, Market Data and Credit Data. He leads a pioneering strategy for customer engagement, best placing him to talk about how to use the customer relationship to generate revenue for your business.

Brian heads up the procurement strategy, and with more than 25 years experience in leading roles in national and international Telecom, Media and IT/Digital Industry, he is well placed to share his expertise within these industries. Brian leads his team with an entrepreneurial mindset, with a focus on customer satisfaction and healthy and visible financial results.

Gareth heads up procurement, where he is establishing a strategy to develop a clear procurement team strategy. In his role, he is directly responsible for ensuring spend is under control, and delivering savings to the business. He also understands the importance of how to manage suppliers effectively and ensures this is at the forefront of his team’s processes and strategy.

Gregory leads indirect spend where he is responsible for optimising 1 billion GBP of indirect spend, and and Procurement Excellence for the entire function (Indirect and Direct). Recently he has been focusing on driving value and has defined and enabled the first generation of category strategies across the portfolio globally. To enable this, he drives to work closely between central and local, and is the first to achieve a truly global function in the company with a mantra that speaks for itself “Global Procurement = Central + Local + Local”.

Irina leads indirect purchases and is currently devising successful strategies to implement core processes for her team and business partners. Irina is experimenting with a number of ways to develop a strong team culture through developing her team’s core skills in understanding business needs and effective communication.

Hans heads up one of the business areas and in addition chairing the collaboration team between the BAs, the central Indirect function and towards the Group Sourcing Council. In the group they drive collaboration areas like; category & SRM competence, IT tools, processes, legal, supplier development, communication & market intelligence. Recently the investments in new group procurement IT systems & a competence development program for > 200 persons have been decided. The way of working efficiently globally with resources mainly locally is and has been the focus for Hans.

Simeon manages 1bn of spend across global commercial categories at AstraZeneca, including Digital, Print & Market Research. Simeon has had extensive experience in a number of global category lead roles across IT as well as recently leading AstraZeneca’s Operating Model Implementation. Simeon is currently working on strategic initiatives to ensure local teams are working closely with centralized global procurement, and setting up a shared service centre.

Alisa is a procurement leader with significant experience in operational start-ups, green-field opportunities and transformations.  She has exceptional track record of leading teams in multicultural, complex and fast moving environments, modernizing Indirect Procurement and bringing in new, lean and efficient solutions to the business. Alisa leads today Millicom Group’ Indirect Procurement globally, with focus on emerging markets of Africa and Latin America. 

Christian is responsible for a portfolio of 600 million USD spend, coordinating 20 locations, 3 category managers and 85 Buyers in 5 major regions, across Europe. He has launched a major transformation in terms of resources and processes across a multicultural environment, with a vision to drive and establish global initiatives in terms of Operational Excellence, Sourcing and vendor relationship management.

Margaret leads both the Strategic Procurement and Central Procurement Functions where she sets the procurement direction for the Standard Life group. In her vision for the procurement strategy, Margaret focuses on procurement transformation, leading strategic sourcing programmes and outsourcing and offshoring initiatives - BPO, ITO and Infrastructure, and driving effective third party partner governance and oversight. 

Paolo reports directly to the Vice President for Procurement and Administration on the board, and is responsible for defining the overall procurement strategy of MTS group in conjunction with Group CPO including categories strategies and strategic partners (including Vodafone). In particular is oversees and manages the execution of vendor strategies and relationship activities, procurement planning activities, IT procurement tools implementation and procedures.

Marnie oversees indirect spend for the EMEA region and works closely with her team on strategic initiatives to truly align on the more challenging categories. In her role, Marnie is evolving the mind-set of her team, best placing her to discuss how to collaborate on the more emotive categories.

Dina leads and defines global indirect procurement strategy and execution, where she delivers end-to-end category management. She oversees the Strategic Procurement Process, ensuring a common approach to measuring, optimizing and managing the organization-wide Indirect spend, and works with her team to Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the category-related domestic and international supply market, and incorporate this into the category strategies and solutions. She also works on strategic initiatives to Assess all sub-categories, identify potential cost reductions and assign to global/regional/local responsibility.

Les is responsible for leading the fully centralized EMEA SCM function covering multiple disciplines, where he is responsible for $5B EMEA revenues per year with 100 direct team members. He also has added collateral global responsibility for Eaton’s Direct Material “Global Sourcing” program for worldwide consumption with associated logistics activities.

Alex leads the IT procurement team at Centrica having successfully completed a transformation programme to deliver a re-aligned structure with greater capability, credibility and value within the Centrica group of companies. Recently he has begun the next phase of transformation to globalise the teams and their sourcing strategies, whilst also integrating full end-to-end supplier management capabilities within a global IT spend of circa £400m per annum.

Klaids manages external non-production spend globally. Recently, he has successfully driven year on year cost reduction activities to reach a double digit percentage, whilst increasing internal and external users’ experience and performance. In his role, Klaids implements strategic designs and transformations necessary to significantly improve the performance of his £ multibillion purchasing organisation through the effective harnessing of supplier innovation, balanced autonomy, and clear direction and purpose.

Marjolaine is responsible for $670m spend and focuses on driving process efficiency globally for RELX. She is accountable for supporting all category lead strategies globally and for leveraging global deals whilst maintaining regional consolidation, whilst defining the indirect procurement strategy to meet the global needs of the business.

Sophie is responsible for indirect spend globally for IS, IT, outsourcing, public and point of sale. Recently, she has driven a highly successful strategy to engage with suppliers in her categories to meet the needs of her internal stakeholders best placing her to run a session on improving collaboration with suppliers.

David provides direction as the CPO to the centre led team and develops a strategy and approach across Mainland Europe & UK (14 countries) for both Direct/Indirect and Capital expenditure. In his role, he ensures collaboration between Arriva entities and Deutsche Bahn, Arriva's owner to maximise synergy opportunities and deliver local enterprise benefits within the supply chain. He also coordinates and leads the training and development of the function, including resources taken from the business and retraining them from their current line/professional roles.

David manages an indirect spend of £300 million, where he focuses on leading functional transformation through process improvements and organisational capability development. In his role, he uses his extensive sourcing and supply chain management experience across all procurement categories as a global procurement leader / CPO to lead organisation-wide change through procurement effectiveness and business leadership.

Alice is directly responsible for driving the strategy for Opex and Services, where she focuses on logistics procurement – including the good and services required for warehousing and transportation, best placing her to lead a discussion on the category of logistics procurement. She also develops strategies for corporate and marketing spend. Alice has had a great deal of indirect spend experience across industries including the pharmaceutical industry (Bristol Myers Squibb), Fashion retail industry (Levi Strauss).

Alessandro heads up purchasing at group level for the categories including investment, energy, MRO, indirect material, corporate and plant services, and IT – TLC. His main responsibilities include analysis of as-is worldwide situation regarding procurement processes, evaluation of improvement opportunities, scouting of solutions on the market to support new initiatives, and the drafting of a multi-year program plan to enhance procurement.

Nicky has overall responsibility for category management, supplier relationship management and team development for all indirect materials purchasing in the region. Reporting directly to Robert O’Connor, CPO Europe for Kellogg’s, recently Nicky has developed the new Indirect procurement strategy and how this will drive value creation for the business.

Martin is currently implementing new supplier development tools learned from direct spend, into his indirect spend strategy. He has identified the importance of aligning with stakeholders and developing effective communication with the CFO to manage the execution of cost reduction, best placing him to discuss how to manage achieving an aggressive spend reduction target.

Nils is directly responsible for indirect spend at LEO Pharma where his team manages 3 billion Euros of spend. He is currently focusing on how to use technology to automate the procurement processes and increase usability for his team, best placing him to run a session focusing on automation requirements for procurement teams.

Jaime leads global procurement where he is responsible for a spend of 2 billion GBP. He oversees the sourcing of Indirect Materials (NPS) and drives price efficiency across RB’s Global Media Investment (including TV, Digital, Press, Outdoor, mobile and Copy Production and Online Video Content).

Having joined Barclaycard’s Multinational New Business Team in 2011, Chris is responsible for originating multinational commercial card business with large Global Corporates that are headquartered in Europe. With over 20 years sales experience, Chris has spent the last 11 years working with complex international customers to achieve significant financial and process efficiencies. Joining Barclaycard from his previous role with RBS, as Head of Specialist Sales, Chris has worked extensively with customers who have complex international requirements across both Travel and B2B Commercial Payments.

Allison Board is based in the UK and has been a Multinational New Business Manager in Barclaycard since January 2011. Prior to this she had a similar role in another global commercial card issuing company, where she was for 5 years. Therefore, she brings with her a wealth of experience in working with large organisations and helping them to roll out global, regional and local card programs. She has worked with companies from many different industries, implementing both travel and entertainment and business to business payment solutions.

Lucy is an executive search consultant and has been recruiting into procurement since the mid-90’s. She spent two years with Korn Ferry/Futurestep, before establishing her own small boutique firm, Bennell Associates, in 2002. Lucy has delivered multiple recruitment projects across procurement (indirect and direct) over the last 20 years. Clients include; FTSE top 10 businesses, top tier strategic consultancies, FMCG brands and smaller entrepreneurial businesses.

Sarah Burnett is a Vice President of Research at Everest Group. Based in London, Sarah serves European clients across Everest Group’s global services research areas. She often speaks at leading client and industry events, as well as contributing regularly to media articles as a renowned expert. Well known throughout the UK and the rest of Europe as a thought leader and influencer in business services optimisation Sarah leads Everest Group’s research in the region. Sarah offers more than 20 years of experience and expertise in the global services industry, having served in a variety of capacities, including in-house practitioner, outsourcing provider, and research analyst. Sarah leads Service Delivery Automation research globally for Everest Group looking extensively at the impact of new developments on pricing, headcount and delivery.

Before joining C2FO, Andrew had 17 years of treasury industry related experience. He was responsible for building up Motorola’s EMEA Treasury centre from scratch. He was also responsible for generating annual cost savings of £89m through Treasury efficiency projects such as centralisation of EMEA cash management & funding through in-house bank structures; rationalisation of banking relationships; reduction of interest cost; global forecasting; FX & interest rate policy creation and roll out. Andrew entered into the Treasury software industry advising on & implementing Treasury software to enable risk reduction and efficiency savings for top tier corporations such as BP; Johnson Matthey; Reckitt Benckiser; Sumitomo and WPP. Andrew received a degree in Business & Psychology from the University of Stirling.

Marcin was born in Gdansk, Poland and currently lives in Heidelberg, Germany. 

He studied Economics at the University of Gdansk in Poland as well as postgraduated in Negotiations & Mediations at SWPS in Warsaw, Poland.  

He developed his career in a global blue-chip Reckitt Benckiser in Poland, Italy, UK and Germany where he held various positions in Procurement.  

During that time he covered responsibilities in house-hold, medical devise and healthcare businesses across Europe and in Turkey. Throughout the time he also held leadership and delivered in E-procurement, European commodity strategy and further projects in local, regional and global scope.  

Currently he manages Indirect Spend Procurement across Europe in CWS-boco Group. CWS-boco belong to family equity house Haniel Holding and is active in Professional services field with its 8000 emplyees and wide spread footprint of 50 laundries and 250 logistic hubs.

In this position he is also responsible to deliver an E-procurement strategy across the whole function.

Brett Cornell is Vice President, Value Consulting at SciQuest, where he leverages his vast procurement and spend management expertise across business areas to develop prospect/client ROI and business cases, improve solution strategies, enhance the customer experience and influence company and product solution direction. Brett has more than 20 years of experience from various roles at Johnson & Johnson, including Vice President and Category Leader of Global Packaging procurement, co-leader of J&J’s Procurement Sustainability Initiative and was a champion for its Procurement Leadership Development Program.

David defines the innovation strategy where he takes the lead in coordinating and managing projects and looking for innovative offerings in the areas of energy management, sustainable building management, smart building and BIM Operations. Recently David has led the development of space management offerings and personal services.

Adelle Harrington is Senior Director, Global Practice Consultant TSCM (Talent Supply Chain Management) for KellyOCG. She is responsible for supporting organisations to understand their TSCM Readiness and helping them construct a best-in-class Talent Supply Chain approach. Adelle is a Certified Outsourcing Professional. Adelle joined Kelly in 2003 and has worked in both EMEA and APAC in several roles including staffing consultant, implementation, operations and account management.

Till and his team have worked closely with GEP over the past year to deliver a technology solution for global spend analysis, savings project management and sourcing. Till is passionate about the organization transformation and ROI afforded by achieving global spend visibility: Especially how collaboration and innovation have significantly improved now that the category team can see what’s really going on.  Xylem are the world leader in water provision – treatment, transportation – and are in 150 countries with a huge and complex procurement landscape.

As an International Solutions Director in Schneider Electric’s Energy & Sustainability Services (ESS) division, Sara Hoefkens develops new relationships with international Fortune 500 and other large companies by tailoring end-to-end global solutions that will help them control and strategically manage their global energy spend in order to effectively achieve their business goals and deliver value to their stakeholders.

Before joining Schneider Electric in 2008 (through Summit Energy acquired by Schneider Electric in 2011), Sara worked in a number of business development positions at global ICT solution and services providers.

Rob Hughes is a senior Commercial Director with extensive experience in developing long term relationships and managing high revenue projects within the business services market. Over 20 years’ experience, coupled with a thorough understanding of service delivery optimisation and best practices in competitive markets, he has ensured a high return on investment for his numerous clients. Rob leads Everest Group’s client relationships across Europe and works closely with Sarah in the delivery of service delivery automation advice.

Falk Kohler is the Vice President, Head of Philips Procurement Consulting, and Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems Procurement Engineering. He joined Philips in 2013 from Siemens, where he occupied several leadership positions, including the Chief Procurement Officer for Siemens Enterprise. With more than 20 years of leadership experience, Mr. Kohler has a strong track record in restructuring, change and cost management across all strategic Procurement functions including Turn-key project procurement.

Stéphanie Laroque is Vice President of Global Client Group, Continental Europe at American Express. She took up this position in 2016 and together with her Global Client Account Management teams, she is responsible for managing American Express’ largest corporate clients based in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. In this role, Stéphanie and her team ensure that American Express demonstrates differentiated and tailored expense management solutions for global organisations.

Stéphanie has worked at American Express for over 25 years, holding various senior positions in Europe and Mexico, across several business areas including Commercial Payments, Business travel and Consumer Services.

Prior to her current role, Stéphanie led the Mid Market Sales Force in France delivering significant business growth in this segment and creating new distribution channels. Stéphanie has robust experience in Marketing and Partnership Management, being responsible for negotiating and managing the American Express Corporate co-brand partnership with Air France, Accor, Crédit Lyonnais and KLM, over several years.

Stéphanie also has international business experience, spending three years working in marketing in Mexico for American Express Travel Related Services. In addition, Stéphanie is a member of the American Express Executive Women’s Interest Network and a board member of the Adetem Association (marketing association).

Stéphanie holds a diploma in International Business from ISG (Institut Supérieure de Gestion) in Paris/ NY and Japan. She is based in Paris, France.

Koen is responsible for APS Group’s IT and technology solutions. He has more than 15 years’ experience in Marketing Operations and has been integral in implementing APS Group’s Marketing Operations Suite across its clients, notably Philips, Ford, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Superdrug (part of the AS Watson Group) and Volvo. APS Group’s marketing technology enables clients to automate processes and track their marketing and communication activity globally, whether they’re looking for brand consistency and compliance, operational excellence or multichannel marketing.

Martin is directly responsible for marketing spend at RELX, where he works closely with both business partners and marketing vendors to meet the needs of the business for Europe and the Middle East. His experience in this area best places him to discuss the main challenges facing the marketing category.

As Product Director for Commercial Card, Maria oversees the strategy and product design of all T&E and B2B Commercial Cards Products for Barclaycard. Since joining Barclaycard in 2014, Maria has spearheaded the growth of Barclaycard’s B2B payments by investing in innovative and design rich product capabilities; focussing her team on specific industry verticals such as Travel and Insurance to unlock market opportunities. Prior to her current role, Maria worked for Barclays Investment & Corporate Banking division in various roles. Before joining Barclays Bank Maria was a Principal with management consultant Booz&Allen in their European financial services practice.

Sabrina Pearcy is a global indirect procurement and vendor management consultant and has worked with mid-size to large global organisations for more than 17 years. Sabrina and her team drive organisations to the "next level of success" by focusing on indirect procurement and contracting strategies that are consistent, transparent and create long term value. In her role as consultant, Sabrina focuses on leading procurement transformation, centers for contracting excellence, strategic sourcing programs, outsourcing initiatives, and third party risk programmes for BPO, ITO, Infrastructure, Facilities Management and Physical Security. In her vision for creating more collaborative based business relationships, Sabrina sets the bar for organisations to accomplish their procurement and vendor management goals to provide a more dynamic and profitable business environment. 

Sabrina also writes, speaks and teaches on a global basis about subjects that affect both mid and large organisations regarding procurement, contract/vendor management and third party risk programmes.

Matt has spent his career working with large enterprise organisations across a multitude of professional services. Simplifying ways of working using technology has consistently delivered significant ROI.  

Since joining ProProcure Matt has developed the proposition into new areas of spend. This is helping clients with highly complex and valuable assets to simplify the way in which they configure and transact, delivering both cost and efficiency savings.

Frank has 28 years of experience selling and implementing supply chain and technology solutions into companies just like yours. 

Living and working in China in the 1990’s Frank learnt first-hand the perils and pitfalls of sourcing and supply chain management and on the way helped to build a $1billion company. 

Armed with a vision for an enterprise e-marketplace platform, but no technology, Frank founded ProProcure in 2000 and has built a self-funded multi-million pound business which simplifies how companies forecast demand and purchase complex spend categories from hosted e-Catalogues.

Razvan leads the IT category globally he focuses on building relationships across cultures and gaining buy-in from stakeholders at various levels.  In particular, Razvan has a great deal of experience in managing global processes and sourcing locally-based providers.