Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast

Marc Dragon is the Managing Director of Reefknot Investments. Reefknot Investments is a joint partership between Temasek, Singapore’s state owned fund, and the global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: How Temasek and Kuehne + Nagel’s partnership started Three main focus areas: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Logistics, and Trade...

Arla is the farmer-owned dairy cooperative with 11,200 farmers in seven countries and has a unique impact on strategy: Arla has to deal with the 14 billion liters of milk produced by its farmers annually regardless of price or demand and is the fourth largest dairy company in the world with respect to milk volume. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: How Arla deals w...

Alexis H. Bateman a Research Scientist, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Sheri Hinish, also known as the "Supply Chain Queen" joined us in an episode, focusing on the topic of Supply Chain Sustainability. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Sustainability –  People vs Environment or People vs People Examples of companies in fashion and FMC...

Mike Zayonc founded the Plug and Play supply chain and logistics innovation platform, the Sunnyvale, California-based platform has become the world's largest supply chain business accelerator. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: How Plug and Play connects startups and corporates in the area of supply chain and logistics Corporate network of 300 major multinatio...

Christian Lanng is CEO, Co-founder, and Chairman at Tradeshift. He started his first technology company at age 19 and was the youngest Head of Division in the Danish Government, National IT and Telecom Agency, where he co-founded and led the Danish Nemhandel Project (EasyTrade), the world’s first open-source peer-to-peer trade platform. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the ep...

Susanne Hundsbæk-Pedersen is the Senior Vice President - Devices and Supply Chain Management of Novo Nordisk. Novo Nordisk has been producing insulin and helping people cope with diabetes for more than 90 years. Today it supplies half of the world’s insulin and serves 28 million patients in around 170 countries. Employing approximately 41,400 people globally. Discover more details here . Some of t...

Lidia Yan the CEO and Co-Founder of NEXT Trucking. NEXT is venture-backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Brookfield Ventures. In January 2019, we closed $97M in Series C funding, bringing them to $125M in total funding. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: NEXT - the APPLE of trucking How NEXT achieved profitability in their first year Rapid scaling from...

Dan Bartel is the Chief Procurement Officer at Schneider Electric, which provides energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. Schneider combines world-leading energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services into integrated solutions for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries; with combined revenue of about 26 billion euros. Di...

Robert Blackburn. Robert is the President and Chairman of the Board at BVL International, the largest logistics non-profit organization in Europe. He is also the SVP of Global Supply Management for Stanley Black and Decker, a global leader in the manufacturing of industrial and household tools. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: What is BVL and what makes it the la...

Fabrice has been working for more than 20 years in supply chain, from Railways at Alstom, to Industrial Robots at ABB across Europe, America, and Asia ; at Agilent Fabrice is in charge of Procurement and Logistics, a team of +1000 people with sites located in US, Danemark, Germany, China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Handling supply c...

Vivek Sunder is the Chief Operating Officer of Swiggy. Sunder has over 20 years of experience in the FMCG industry and has been working at the intersection of business and technology across several leadership roles and geographies. In his previous stint at P&G, Sunder held the position of managing director for P&G’s East Africa operations. Discover more details here . Some of the highlight...

Dr. Dirk Holbach is currently the Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Laundry & Home Care at Henkel Global Supply Chain. With more than 20 years of experience in supply chain, operations, purchasing and sales, Dirk has held various roles on a local, regional and global level at Henkel. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Reducing ener...

Michael has a 30-year career in executive positions both in Australia and internationally in the logistics, supply chain, retail and property sectors. Previous roles include Chief Executive Officer of Coates Hire, Linfox and Westgate Holdings, as well as Non-Executive Director of Australia Post. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Toll reorganization, impact on thei...

Alessandro is the Chief Information Officer for Merck Healthcare. One of the largest healthcare groups in the world. In 2016, he has been elected “The Inspirational Leader of the Year” within the Merck BioPharma division. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Transitioning from FMCG to Healthcare. And from Supply Chain to being a CIO Merck and self-driving supply chai...

Parag is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag’s newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Why European trade with China is bigger...

GoGoVan is Asia's leading on-demand logistic, transportation service provider. Eugene is taking care of the company's direction and strategy, overall planning, execution and management, global expansion and development and mergers and acquisitions. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Eugene’s journey of 20 years and experience in the startup space. How did...

Wolfgang Lehmacher, a global thought leader in the world of supply chain and former head of supply chain and transport industries for the world economic forum. During his career, he has been heading and supporting country, regional and global innovation, expansion and investment projects of Fortune 500 and other leading companies, as well as startups, social enterprises, and not-for-profit organiz...

Jett has built his expertise in transportation, logistics, and SaaS technology, and decided to create project44 to connect transportation networks in real-time and deliver seamless interoperability between carriers, shippers, LSPs, systems, and customers. Over 8.5M assets are tracked in their system across 48+ countries. They have raised over $100M+ through multiple rounds. Discover more details h...

Vikram is a seasoned supply chain professional with a career spanning 30 years in the industry. He is responsible for leading the continued roll-out of Avon’s new Supply Chain transformation plan, aimed at delivering improved service and significant savings to fuel company growth. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: The difference between direct selling and FMCG sup...

Uber Freight seamlessly connects trucking companies with loads to haul. In their own words: “We’re driven by a simple belief. When shippers and carriers have the freedom to move together, the entire industry moves ahead” Discover more details here. Some of the highlights of the episode: How Uber Freight helps drivers make faster and better decisions through pricing transparency The 4M’s of Hyper S...

Zilingo is the top beauty and lifestyle marketplace allowing smaller merchants from Southeast Asia without an online presence to list their items for sale direct to consumer. It has raised Series D funding of $226 million nearing almost 1 billion valuation. Discover more details here . Some of the highlights of the episode: Aadi's journey from banking to e-commerce. How Zilingo started- aggre...

Lorenzo has 27 years of experience with multinationals and startups in the ICT/ HITECH, FMCG, industrial/consumer electronics, fashion, and retail sectors. In Huawei he is an executive advisor on strategy and global operations, sharing knowledge to improve supply chain performance and leadership behaviors, with a focus on continuous growth in digital transformation, influencing skills and cultural...

Paul serves as Chief Supply Chain Officer at Woolworths Group, the largest supermarket chain in Australia. Prior to this, Paul was Global Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa for DHL Supply Chain. Paul has also been a board member of one of Australia’s largest wholesale and grower produce companies La Manna Group , Executive Chairman of a large mul...

Kontainers is a Software as a service company serving carriers and forwarders with own branded platforms allowing their clients to get instant rates, book cargo and manages all shipments online on any internet enabled device. They were awarded be Best Global Digital Oceanfreight Platform by Frost & Sullivan in 2019. Around a quarter of the 20 largest #shipping lines use the Kontainers Enterpri...

Chris is the CEO & Co-Founder of what3words – a global address system which names every 3m square in the world with a unique 3-word address. Some of their backers include Intel , Mercedes (Daimler ), Sony , Deutsche Bahn , SAIC Motor Corp , Aramex , Horizons Ventures , & Alpine Electronics . Daimler acquired a 10 percent stake in the London startup last year and built it into the navigatio...