Jay is a seasoned business professional with over 20 years of experience as a procurement leader in businesses across diverse industries including consumer products, chemical distribution, and utilities. He has extensive experience in partnering with business leaders and management teams in identifying and implementing sustainable and measurable supply chain business initiatives that delivered significant process and cost improvements. These improvements span numerous categories such as Facilities Management, Contingent Labor, IT, Telecommunications, and Professional Services & Technical Consulting.

Carol Danoff is the Chief Procurement Officer of Novartis Pharmaceutical - Global.   She brings extensive experience in global strategic sourcing, supplier and category management, process improvement, and organizational transformation for the procurement of both indirect and direct goods and services.  She has held management positions of increasing responsibility at Mattel, Colgate-Palmolive, Pitney Bowes, and Motorola.
 
Carol holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University.  She received her CPM certification from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) in 1995 and was re-certified in 1998 and she has her CPIM from APICS.  Carol was a member of the Board of Directors for the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) in 2004 and 2005 where she chaired the Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Committee.  She is a member of the ProcureCon USA Advisory Board and serves on The Conference Board Supply Chain and Procurement Executive Council.

A supply chain professional with over 28 years of experience in the Tobacco, Plastics, Food and Pharmaceutical Industries. Responsibility for $1.8 billion in spend across the RAI operating companies, includes direct, indirect and capital procurement. Directs teams in Memphis TN, Oxford NC, Santa Fe NM, as well as centralized indirect and direct groups in Winston-Salem NC.

Marc Ensign’s work experience began in 1978 at Honeywell's Micro Switch division in Illinois where he worked in all phases of Materials Management, including production control, inventory control, and purchasing.  In2001 Marc joined Sonoco Products Company, a premier custom packaging company.  Marc is the Director, Strategic Sourcing, Services/Outsourcing and Supplier Diversity.  In this role he manages supply strategy and leads corporate efforts to reduce the cost of services Sonoco purchases, reduce supplier risk, push “Green” into the supply base, and drive supplier diversity.  Previous to this current role he was responsible for driving supply strategy into Sonoco’s European, Asian and South American Regions.  In 2007 and 2012, Marc received the “Buyer of the Year” award from the Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council. In 2009, he was awarded the “Champions of Diversity” award by the Diversity Plus Magazine.  He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University and his MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Elizabeth Galloway is the Senior Manager of Indirect Strategic Sourcing at Diebold, Incorporated. Elizabeth’s career at Diebold, Incorporated has included responsibilities strategic sourcing manager in the area of indirect procurement, travel, electronic security, physical security and electro-mechanical components. Elizabeth holds a BA in Business Management from Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.

Roxana is an eighteen year veteran at Xerox Corporation with most of that time spent in procurement. Roxana has in-depth experience in strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, contract management, project management, and business process re-engineering

Roxana has developed deep category expertise in Professional Services, Consulting, Recruiting, Marketing, IT, Contract Labor, Benefits, Travel and Meetings commodities.  Roxana has been involved extensively in contract negotiations with third parties to mitigate legal and business risks globally.   She was instrumental in implementing a global third party relationship program for effective risk management and vendor management of strategic business partners.
Prior to Xerox, Roxana spent fifteen years at Citi with responsibilities in all  back office operational aspects.

Roxana holds a MS degree in Instructional Design and an MBA in Technology Management.

Jo Ellen’s career includes progressive procurement leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies, focused in the consumer packaged goods industry: Anheuser-Busch, Monsanto, Sara Lee. Each role was focused on indirect spend categories, including information technology, consulting, financial and professional services. In addition, her various roles included procurement systems implementations and policy development. Prior to joining BP, Jo Ellen lived and worked in the city of Chicago. Jo Ellen joined BP in October, 2009, and relocated to Houston.  In that role, Jo Ellen was responsible for the category of Legal Services, working closely with the BP Legal team.  Within that role, she developed Indirect Procurement’s partnership with BP Legal, delivering solid value to the Company. Jo Ellen attended Webster University where she earned a Master’s Degree in management. Previously she earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Fontbonne University.

Ron Hetrick brings more than 20 years of labor force economic experience to Allegis Global Solutions. In his current role as Director of Market Analysis, Ron primarily works with organizations across different industries as a site selection and workforce planning consultant. He also provides economic analysis for the long-term strategic growth of the Allegis Group family of companies.

Prior to working for Allegis Global Solutions, Hetrick spent nearly eight years as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington D.C. He was a supervisory economist overseeing the monthly employment estimates and acted as the primary media liaison for manufacturing employment for the division. Quoted by NBC, CNN, USA Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other news agencies, Hetrick provided analysis for Alan Greenspan, The Council of Economic Advisors and Congress.

Ron also published three articles on labor trends in the Monthly Labor Review and continues to publish white papers on sector hiring trends and contingent rate card development and rate philosophies.

Mr. Ho has over 16 years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain at major corporations such as JPMorgan Chase, Procurian, AT Kearney, Deloitte and PwC. He has built multiple other procurement organizations at Fortune 500 companies with addressable spend between $900M - $1.5B. At Russell Mr. Ho and his team manage approximately $1 billion in Spend.

In addition to his CPO role, Mr. Ho is also the Head of Corporate Transformation with responsibilities to support the business in redesign processes and drive change resulted in significant improved process efficiencies, increase client satisfaction, risk mitigation and reduce costs.

Mr. Ho has BA and MA in Mathematics with Honors from Oxford University and an MBA with Distinction from Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business.

Mr. Ho is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM).

Steve Hughes is the Vice President of Global Sourcing for the National Geographic Society, a 126 year old non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC.  He oversees a staff of 10 who manage $300 million in addressable spend for all direct and indirect categories.  Steve has an engineering degree from West Point and an MBA from the University of Missouri.  He has held progressively more responsible positions in procurement and operations including Product Manager at Hallmark Cards, Plant Manager at Packaging Corporation of America, Purchasing Director at Comcast, and most recently, prior to joining National Geographic in 2013, VP of Supply Chain Management at Vertis Communications.

Joanna has a wealth of supply chain executive experience across consumer products, pharmaceutical and financial services businesses, especially focusing on driving cost reductions in non traditional spend areas and creating improvements across the entire supply chain. She joined Cushman & Wakefield as Executive MD and CPO in 2009 where she built a global procurement strategy and platform in collaboration with corporate, client and facilities management teams. Previously, she was SVP & CPO at AllianceBernstein for six years where she developed and implemented global strategic sourcing and supply chain management practices, including the establishment of European and Asian sourcing programs. She’s also held Executive procurement and SCM roles at Diageo, International Distillers and Vintners and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products.

Take strategic sourcing and mix it with operations in addition to organizational management and throw in over 15 years of experience leading IBM’s procurement teams and you’ll find Kurt Meiers, one of the most savvy sourcing directors this side of the MRO supply chain. Kurt’s industry experience and client-centric approach makes him a sourcing expert for both SDI’s internal and external clients. His expertise in all sourcing and category management activities means our clients have full confidence in SDI’s ability to drive value throughout their enterprise.

Ian O’Brien is the Vice President of Supply Chain at the American Cancer Society, the largest health related non-profit in the United States.  Ian and his team partner with ACS staff to transform their supply chain practices, including sourcing, procurement, logistics, and supply chain systems. The team’s span includes all spend categories and business units, which ultimately serve ACS employees, and millions of volunteers and constituents in more than 5,000 communities nationwide. Prior to joining the American Cancer Society, Ian was Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management, at SunTrust Bank. Previously, Ian was a member of Ernst and Young’s Supply Chain consulting practice, where he managed supply chain organizational and strategic sourcing engagements for manufacturing and services clients –both domestically and internationally. Ian holds a BA in Economics from Duke University, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has more than 16 years of experience in solution selling and sales management from various leading software and solution providers in the eProcurement sector. He has an exhaustive understanding of the complex demands from smaller as well as larger businesses related to Source-to-Pay processes, regardless of industry and vertical. Michael joined IBX Business Network in 2012.

Alan J. Rice has been serving as Southern Wine & Spirits of America‘s Senior Director of Corporate Procurement since early 2010.

Prior to Southern, Alan worked for a series of Fortune 500 companies, including Cemex, Unisys, Nokia and Sara Lee. Previous to Southern he worked at Nortel Networks, Inc., managing their global indirect procurement with over $2 billion in spend under management. 

Alan has over 20 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, P2P and supply chain management. He has spent half of his career working internationally in Europe, Latin America and Asia. During the last 8 years, Alan has led major transformation initiatives to drive higher value and reduce costs, while focusing on ROI. He has also specialized in the creation of indirect procurement organizations for enterprises that did not previously have one. 

Alan has a Masters in Supply Chain Management and an undergraduate degree in International Affairs from Florida State University. He is also very active in various procurement organizations and is an Advisory Board member for the Information Technology and Operations Management Department of Florida Atlantic University (FAU).

As SVP of Product Development at PRO Unlimited, Ted Sergott is the owner of the WAND VMS platform and is responsible for all aspects of product delivery including technology, and infrastructure.   Ted is an expert on building SaaS/Cloud applications and is the visionary leader of the WAND Mobile & Tablet apps.  Prior to joining PRO, Ted spent 10 years leading product development for SaaS/Cloud companies in the PPM, eDiscovery and HCM domains. Additionally, Ted spent 15 years building innovative, online products for financial institutions including Charles Schwab, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.

Sean Smith is the Director of Strategic Sourcing for Agropur Ingredients, a dairy ingredients manufacturing business unit of Agropur, a $4B Canadian dairy cooperative. He is responsible for all procurement, contracting and supplier management for Agropur Ingredients, as well as dairy ingredients procurement for the Canadian Cheese business unit. Sean also sits on the ERP Council for an implementation of Oracle, as a Business Process Owner for Procurement modules. Prior to joining Agropur Ingredients Sean was a Supply Chain Manager with Adventist Health System, responsible for the Contracting and Sourcing modules of a PeopleSoft implementation. From 2010 to 2012, Sean was a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Facilities at Citigroup. Previous to Citigroup Sean was a Supply Chain Manager in the United States Army. Sean has a Bachelor in Finance from University of Maryland and an MBA with a Supply Chain Management specialization from the University of South Florida.

Doug Van Wingerden is a Senior Vice President with Insight Sourcing Group and leads its Procurement Transformation practice.  Doug has over 20 years of consulting and operations experience and has supported large-scale, transformational programs for clients around the world in a variety of industries. His areas of specialty include process transformation, service delivery strategy, change management, organization design, and technology rationalization.

As a member of the executive leadership team at Insight Sourcing Group, he has helped build and grow the company into one of the largest and most respected pure-play procurement services companies in North America.  In 2014, Insight Sourcing Group was included on the Inc. 5000 list (for the 7th year in a row.)  Additionally, the company was rated by Consulting Magazine as the #1 Small Strategy Firm to Work for and was rated as the #1 Boutique Consulting Firm in North America by Vault.com.

Prior to joining ISG, Doug was an Executive Partner with Accenture where he was an architect of several of Accenture’s largest and most complex consulting and outsourcing programs. He is also a former Partner with IBM’s Business Consulting Services and a former Senior Project Engineer with Pratt & Whitney.

Karen Webley is Deputy Director/Head of Global Business Services Procurement. She joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES in August 2009 in Malta, New York. Prior to joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES, she held various senior level operations and procurement roles with Hanover Insurance, Three-Five Systems and Intel Corporation.

Karen is very active in the Saratoga County NY community and sits on the Advisory Board for the Women @ Work Magazine published by Hearst Corporation.

Tim Westendorf is Senior Vice President, Shared Services Strategy & Operations within Worldwide Finance at MasterCard.  In this role, he is responsible for leading MasterCard’s global finance and accounting shared services operations and overall implementation and expansion activities.  Tim is also responsible for leading MasterCard’s global enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems inclusive of applications support, application roadmap and strategy, product management, governance, and implementation services.

Mr. Westendorf has over 20 years of experience in business operations management, process transformation, enterprise-wide systems deployments, applications support, and large-scale strategic program and project management.  Tim joined MasterCard in 2001 where he was responsible for the delivery of a single, global instance and rollout of MasterCard’s core accounting, procurement, consolidation, and management reporting systems.

Prior to joining MasterCard, Tim was a Principal Consultant in the Management Consulting Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).  At PwC, he lead various business development efforts and supported several multi-national companies in undertaking organizational and process transformation initiatives coupled with large-scale system implementations.  Prior to joining PwC, Tim was a Senior Consultant with the Oracle Corporation working within the Financial Consulting Services practice.  Tim started his career with United Parcel Service working in the International Finance & Accounting Systems group.

Larry is the director of Strategic Sourcing with responsibility for the sourcing of all goods and services for Intuit. Larry has more than 20 years procurement experience in public sector, consumer goods and software technology. He has been with Intuit since 2000 with roles of increasing responsibility. Larry and his team work closely with Intuit business units to maximize the value from Intuit's relationships with third parties, whether suppliers of goods and services or alliances. Larry joined Intuit from Proctor & Gamble, where he supported indirect spend areas for the Laundry and Cleaning division. Larry has an engineering degree from the US Naval Academy and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Keith Woody is currently Senior Vice President / Chief Procurement Officer at Fulton Bank, part of Fulton Financial Corporation, a $26 billion financial services company. Fulton Bank offers a broad array of financial products and services in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. His previous experience has spanned across both public and private equity owned businesses with a charter to drive procurement transformation, process optimization and talent enrichment. Mr. Woody has held executive leadership roles within companies ranging between $4 billion and $64B billion in revenues. Keith holds an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee, and has a B.S. in management and human resource management from Liberty University.