Cooperatively Speaking

E&I Host: Dennis Hyde, E&I Category Marketing Manager Guest: Morgan Hoyt, Vice President of Business Development, Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP) Ben Rader, Director of Business Development, Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP) In this episode of Cooperatively Speaking , E&I’s Dennis Hyde is joined by Morgan Hoyt and Ben Rader from Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP) to explore the evolving...

E&I Host: Matt Levine, E&I Category Marketing Manager Guest: Barry Swanson, Chief Procurement Officer, University of Kentucky In the first episode of Cooperatively Speaking 's "From the Desk of" series, Matt Levine interviews Barry Swanson, Chief Procurement Officer at the University of Kentucky. Barry discusses his career journey from law school to higher education procurem...

E&I Host:   David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest:   Eric Frank, President & CEO, E&I Cooperative Services In this special 90th anniversary episode, E&I CEO Eric Frank explores the Cooperative's rich history and forward-looking vision. Founded in 1934 during the Great Depression by procurement officers from Colgate, Cornell, and Syracuse U...

E&I Host: David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest:   Brian Kirk, Vice President, Cybersecurity Services,  Strata Information Group (SIG) Join Brian Kirk from Strata Information Group (SIG) to discuss the crucial elements of incident response planning in higher education. Discover the essentials of crafting an effective Incident Response Plan (IRP) and how co...

E&I Host:   David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors   Guest:   Marc Heroux, Product Specialist, Alert Labs In part two of this series, David welcomes Marc Heroux from Alert Labs, a provider available through the E&I Carrier Enterprise contract, to discuss water management problems and how to solve them. Water usage monitoring, damage prevention, remote water s...

E&I Hosts: Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity; Casey Laurienzo, Vice President, Community Engagement & Education Guest: Reginald Layton, Former Vice President, Supplier Diversity & Supply Chain Sustainability at Johnson Controls International Plc; Ralph G. Moore, Founder & President of Ralph G. Moore & Associates Join Reginald Layton and Ralph Moore from RGMA...

E&I Host: David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest:   Keaton Henry, Category Sales Specialist – Connected & IAQ, Ferguson In part one of this series, David welcomes Keaton Henry, an industry expert at Ferguson, for an insightful discussion about industrial smart devices from an HVAC standpoint, and leak detection devices from a plumbing standpoint. Keaton...

E&I Hosts: Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity and David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Reginald Layton, Former Vice President, Supplier Diversity & Supply Chain Sustainability at Johnson Controls International Plc In part four of our Supplier Diversity Leadership Series, Titus and David welcome Reginald Layton, a renowned expert and...

E&I Hosts: Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity and David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Ralph G. Moore, Founder & President of Ralph G. Moore & Associates   Join us for Part Three of our Supplier Diversity Series as Titus and David welcome Ralph G Moore, a veteran with over 40 years of experience and the founder of Ralph G Moore...

E&I Host: David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Thomas Licker, CEICR, CBRM, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Business Practice at First Onsite The opioid crisis has far reaching implications on our country's campuses. In this episode, David and our guest Tom Licker, Certified Environmental Infection Control Remediator and Certified BioRecovery Maste...

E&I Hosts: Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity and David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Reggie Williams, CEO of Procurement Resources, Inc. Tune into the second part of Titus and David's conversation with Reggie Williams, CEO of Procurement Resources and the individual who coined the phrase supplier diversity. Here, we cover what su...

E&I Hosts: Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity and David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Reggie Williams, CEO of Procurement Resources, Inc. "The tent is getting larger, and the tent doesn't have a door that is closed to anyone. The more we are all aligned in this process called stakeholder capitalism, the greater the benefits t...

E&I Host: David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest: Tammy Rimes, MPA, Executive Director of NCPP Join David for Part 2 of this two-part episode featuring Tammy Rimes, Executive Director of National Cooperative Procurement Partners. In this episode, we discuss what to look for when choosing a cooperative to partner with, trends and best practices, and ultimate...

E&I Host: David Manz, Business Partnerships Manager, Facilities & Interiors Guest : Tammy Rimes, MPA, Executive Director of NCPP "Cooperative purchasing is not just for procurement, so if you're listening to this and you're from facilities maintenance or public works or student services or you're part of the faculty, and you do any kind of purchasing, then you need to l...

E&I Hosts: David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities and Titus Martin, Executive Director, Supplier Diversity How does supplier diversity impact a community -- and specifically schools and universities -- both socially and financially? David and Titus (making his debut!) deep dive into the definition of supplier diversity and what it means as a "holistic...

E&I Host: Joe Castelluccio, Director, Business Development Guest: Maria Moore, SVP of Global Marketing and Strategic Alliances at HireRight  HireRight recently launched its 15th Annual Benchmark Report based on the responses of over 2,300 human resources and risk professionals worldwide who shared their experiences of background screening, talent acquisition, and remote working over the past y...

E&I Host: Joe Castelluccio, Director, Business Development Guests: Deborah Jackson,  Founder and CEO of Arrow Payments Colleges and universities are like little cities where each department operates with their own business processes and software. Managing the payment systems for each of these locations is extremely complex when you consider all the different ways schools receive payments for t...

E&I Host: David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities Guests: Brooke Taylor, National Key Account Manager at Duracell, and Scott Ruhl, National Account Manager at Batteries Plus Bulbs Take a look around you. What's something you know you have a lot of of, but don't often see? How far can you walk through your house, your office, your facilities withou...

E&I Host: Joe Castelluccio, Director, Business Development Guests: Naomi Emmons, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer at the University of Kentucky; Rick Gay, Director of Procurement Services at Spring Branch Independent School District; and Taylor Nemeth, Head of Payments at PaymentWorks With 74% of organizations reporting they were the target of an actual or attempted payments fraud in 2020, the...

E&I Hosts: Saul Alvarado, Vice President, Construction, Energy & Facilities and David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities Guest: Matt Robeson, National Enterprise Account Manager for K-20 at Carrier Since March 2020, Congress has allocated $264.5 billion for private, public, K-12, and higher education spending in response to the pandemic. Much of these fu...

E&I Hosts: Saul Alvarado, Vice President, Construction, Energy & Facilities   and David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities Guest: Mark Cartwright, Former Director, Supplier Diversity at E&I* Join us for part two of our discussion on supplier diversity within the education space (check out part one here !). You'll walk away from this episode with...

E&I Hosts: Saul Alvarado, Vice President, Construction, Energy & Facilities David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities Guest: Mark Cartwright, Former Director, Supplier Diversity at E&I* Join us for part one of our two-part discussion on supplier diversity within the education space, particularly for facilities departments, EH&S, and other departme...

E&I Hosts: Saul Alvarado, Vice President, Construction, Energy & Facilities and David Manz, Category Business Manager, Construction, Energy & Facilities Guest: Karl Stefan, CIEC, Northeast Regional Manager, Industrial Hygienist , Pure Air Control Services, Inc. Join us for part two of our discussion on indoor air quality (IAQ) -- and why if it's important, you measure it. In this...

E&I Hosts: Saul Alvarado, Vice President, Construction, Energy & Facilities and David Manz, Category Business Manager,  Construction, Energy & Facilities Guest: Kirk Steward, National Product Manager at Sunbelt Rentals The need for good indoor air quality (IAQ) has been a topic for years, but COVID-19 significantly exposed deficiencies, challenges, and concerns surrounding IAQ. Now, wi...