The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Seth Davies of Competitive Solutions to talk about his B2B podcast, The Pulse of High Performance. Executive Platforms has collaborated with Competitive Solutions since its earliest days, and there are few organizations better positioned to speak to senior executives about how they have achieved succe...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Johan Beukema of BCI Global to have a conversation about site selection and footprint optimization in a world where these decisions are always important, but recent events are bringing them into sharper focus than ever. We have had the pleasure of speaking with the experts at BCI Global at many Execut...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Matt Delaney of Covalent to talk about the advances and new capabilities Artificial Intelligence is bringing to the important fields of workforce management and workforce development, especially as it relates to manufacturing organizations. How does one separate the optimism and enthusiasm for AI from...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Andrew Siprelle and Tom Lange to talk about something every manufacturing leader with shopfloor experience knows intuitively but has spent a career trying to prove: Sometimes fixing the little things even when everything else is working right pays bigger dividends than the ‘big wins’ that everyone und...

At the 2025 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we recorded a special episode of Executive Platforms’ BluEPrint Podcast series speaking to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity. In this wide-ranging, organic conversation, three manufacturing...

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Kawa Chiu of Abdera Therapeutics to talk about advances in targeted radiotherapeutics and some of the supply chain implications of recent developments. Radiotherapeutics differs from traditional radiation therapy in that an antibody or small molecule delivers radiation internally to the cancer cells, sparing he...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with some of the team from AlixPartners to talk about what manufacturing leaders can do to move their operations forward at a time when long-term planning is off the table for the time being.  The answer is surprisingly positive!  Making the mental shift from working on the strategic big picture to the tac...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we sat down with two of the top speakers from the 2025 edition of the long-running North American HR Executive Summit series for a wide-ranging discussion about the issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities that are top of mind for human resources leaders today, as suggested by the attendees of the event. Give it a l...

At the 2025 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series we sat down with Mark Fordyce of Workvivo by Zoom to talk about how a new generation of tools and technologies are changing the way leaders interact with and understand their people. How can HR professionals best leverage these new abilities to improve things like employee job satisfaction, retention rates, skills development, an...

At the 2025 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series we sat down with Barbara Hess of CCS Medical to talk about the power and responsibility HR professionals have to help the C-Suite executives of their organization set a tone and reflect the values they want to see in their company culture. While leading by example is always important and valuable, there are all kinds of tangible...

  At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Elmar Licharz of Volkswagen, Guru Ramamurthy of Bayer US, and Tatiana Simonelli of Alfasigma —all members of the NAFES25 speaker faculty— for a wide-ranging discussion about the issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities that are top of mind for finance leaders today, as suggested by the attendees of the...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Rob Konferowicz of CCH Tagetik. A new generation of Enterprise Performance Management tools is coming online. As the older tools become less and less suited to a changing business landscape, many finance professionals are being asked to make informed choices in relatively short time frames about the technolo...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' BluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity.   This wide-ranging conversation will see four senior...

At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Mandy Jacomet, the Chief Financial Officer of NeighborWorks Toledo Region to talk about her experience bringing lessons learned and best practices she had gained through work in the private sector and applying them to a non-profit organization without always having the resources a finance leader may have had...

In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we spoke with Jessica Monserrate and Jordan Keller of BASF, a 150-year-old chemical company with 111,000 employees working in 230 production and R&D sites in 90 countries. BASF is committed to ambitious sustainability targets, including a 25% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emiss...

In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the Medical Device Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we spoke with Shawn McCarthy, Jessica Swanson, and Peggy Hansen of Regenity Biosciences about exciting developments in the Medical Device space, with a particular emphasis on both the power of collaboration and the importance of a regulatory strategy. Regenity is an industry-leading CDMO working with 120...

There is a podcast Executive Platforms would like to bring to the attention of our network of senior executives. For everyone interested in online speech, especially issues like trust and safety, content moderation, regulations and compliance, and how technology is changing the way people engage with one another, we recommend the Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast co-hosted by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Eve...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Diluks de Silva to talk about Cell and Gene Therapies. For many years we have been hearing these and other Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are moving towards commercialization, and each individual therapy that has been approved is heralded as a pioneer to be celebrated and studied for lessons learned and b...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Hari Pujar of Tessera Therapeutics and Flagship Pioneering to offer a concise but still in-depth look at the present and future of biopharmaceutical manufacturing, especially as it relates to Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). Incredible progress has been made and is being made, but of course there are bottl...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Martin Müller and Søren Thuesen Pedersen of Novo Nordisk to talk about opportunities biopharmaceutical manufacturers have to work together to lower costs, standardize equipment, build win-win scenarios for procurement and supply chain, and similar initiatives where competitive advantage and IP are not at stake, but co...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the most senior speakers and delegates from the 2024 edition of the long-running Biomanufacturing World Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity.  With topics ranging from lea...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with two of Ernst & Young LLP’s supply chain leaders to talk about how AI is shaping supply chain operations today, what we can look forward to in the near future, and also where our current use cases are tempering some of the more hyperbolic expectations while also illustrating real-world capabilities t...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Nick Maragos of Northway Biotech to talk about how biopharmaceutical manufacturers are increasingly partnering with CDMOs to advance the future of medicine, how that working relationship is evolving over time, and what CDMOs need to do to continue to grow and meet the needs of the industry. With special reference to N...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Magnus Schroeder, the VP, Process & Product Design for Just – Evotec Biologics, to talk about some of the advantages of continuous manufacturing in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, especially for companies whose products are approaching the First in Human (FIH) stage. It is never too early to think about process o...

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with John H. Adams, Jr., Spark Therapeutics’ Senior Director, Validation, to talk about Computer Software Assurance in the Life Sciences. John has been doing Computer Systems Validation (CSV) for decades as a regulatory requirement, so when talk of a risk-based Computer Software Assurance (CSA) requirement started making t...