The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series Pascal Bécotte of Russell Reynolds and Laurent Rossi, the former CEO of the F1 team Alpine and a former Google Executive, spoke about Peak Performance Leadership . In this follow-up interview they explain some of the origins and themes behind that presentation, and then launched into details of the TechOps Leadership Accelerator Progr...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Sathish Thirmoorthy, the Chief Strategy Officer of UCBOS, to put into context how the new generation of technologies available to manufacturers are shaping how organizations function and evolve, especially in the current age of disruption. Far too often we focus on the incredible new capabilities unlocked b...

At Executive Platforms’ North American Food Manufacturing Summit , two of our keynote speakers and one of our leading solution-providers sat down to record a special episode of the BluEPrint Podcast series reviewing the top-of-mind issues and ideas of food manufacturing executives today as chosen by the NAFMS24 attendees, weighted by popularity. With topics ranging from process optimization, to di...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe to explore how data and AI are reshaping the food and beverage industry, especially in regards to supply chain and manufacturing operations. What should food manufacturers know about harnessing data for greater efficiency and performance improvements? What...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Steven Pamensky, the founder and CEO of Industrial Matrix, to talk about the next generation of proactive and predictive maintenance and asset management tools and technologies now available to food manufacturers. There is a tidal wave of features and options on offer, and of course all of them need to inte...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Adam Chartier, an experienced EHS leader with DSM-Firmenich, to talk about some of the ways Safety professionals keep people engaged and thinking about how they do things and why it matters, as well as how Safety is evolving in the manufacturing space. Whether you are a life-long EHS practitioner in your or...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Joe Castaneda of Winland Foods to talk about where Safety professionals are today, and what is changing in their working lives. The manufacturing sector is under constant evolution and reinvention in a changing business landscape, but Safety can never take a back seat on the shop floor or in the priorities...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Paul Bradley of TraceGains to talk about the power of Data in the food manufacturing sector, especially as it relates to communicating, coordinating, and collaborating with partners up and down the value chain to reduce risk, improve compliance, keep people safe, improve the customer experience, control cos...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Evan Bressler of Pactiv Evergreen to talk about Safety Culture. Of course everyone wants to be safe in their work, but the very fact that safety issues are ever-present means there is a temptation to treat them too casually, to forget about them when things are going well or people are in a hurry, to assume...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Cynthia Lapoint, a plant manager with Kerry, to talk about how manufacturing professionals address the issue of work-life balance in the ‘New Normal of Work.’ While many industries came through the pandemic embracing remote work and hybrid work models, manufacturers still need people on the shop floor doing...

At the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with some of our speakers and delegates to record a special episode of Executive Platforms' BluEPrint Podcast series reviewing the top-of-mind issues and ideas of supply chain executives today as chosen by the NASCES24 attendees, weighted by popularity.   With topics ranging...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' BluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain 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.  With topics ranging...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Pieter de Wit of BCI Global to discuss how companies who are rethinking their footprint, updating their supply chain networks, and preparing themselves for future growth are thinking through issues of risk management, cost control, and the ability to act upon decisions quickly in a rapidly evolving busi...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Chris Kucher of project44 to talk about how visibility in supply chains helps organizations improve decision-making, processes, performance, and helps to control cost. This is an exciting time for supply chain leaders, because a new generation of visibility tools and technologies are able to gather, sha...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Becky Crane, General Mills’ Vice President of Manufacturing & Engineering, to talk about how industry leaders are working to make careers in their manufacturing and supply chain organizations attractive to the next generation, especially in light of how people are thinking differently about their wo...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Tanja Dysli, IKEA US’s Chief Supply Chain Officer and the president of IKEA Distribution Services LLC, to talk about her company’s ambitious plans for future growth and how IKEA attracts, develops, and retains the talent it needs to deliver on its customer-centric supply chain now while preparing itself...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Allan Dow, the president and CEO of Logility, to talk about the opportunity supply chain leaders now have to adjust their understanding of what is possible, to set ambitious goals, to build up and test new capabilities, and then to apply all of this to the fundamentals of their job to support their orga...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Paul Gallagher, the Chief Supply Chain Officer of General Mills, to talk about how making Artificial Intelligence work for a company revolves around people at all stages of the journey. General Mills is already almost five years into a transformation that incorporates AI tools, and while the use cases a...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Danielle Hansen, a vice president with JBT and adjunct professor at the university of St. Thomas, to speak about a wide range of issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities facing supply chain leaders today, and also how the next generation of supply chain workers and leaders will be a huge part of add...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we spoke with Derek Bealby, a Vice President of AFMS, LLC about the most popular topic as submitted by this year’s delegates: controlling costs, especially in areas like contract management.    How should supply chain leaders work with their partners to control shipping costs in a world of inflation, rising labor costs,...

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Sathish Thirumoorthy, the Chief Strategy Officer of UCBOS, to talk about new approaches to using data to solve problems and getting disparate systems and functions to talk to one another. In an age of disruption where resiliency is the goal of so many supply chain organizations, simplicity is a key driv...

In today’s episode we speak with Colonel Kristin Saling, currently serving as the Acting Director of Army People Analytics in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower & Reserve Affairs.    A US Army engineer who did two deployments in Iraq, in 2016 Kristin was assigned to apply a data scientist’s tools and training to better understand the Army’s million-plus employees. Eight...

In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Food Safety & Quality series we spoke with Paul Bradley of TraceGains about how FSQ professionals document, demonstrate, and communicate the value of their work through data, and how a new generation of data collection and analytics tools are allowing them to share and showcase their contributions to the company in new and exciting ways....

More and more, the last few years are coming to be dubbed an ‘Age of Disruption.’ For the senior leaders in Executive Platforms’ network, resiliency is the watchword of the day that promises organizations will find success even as the business landscape evolves around them. What does a resilient culture actually look like? How should senior leaders cultivate resiliency in themselves and in their p...

For today’s interview we spoke with Erik Liederbach, a social strategy and marketing executive who specializes in partnering with C-Suite executives and other senior leaders to create and execute social media and marketing strategies that deliver results, maintain a positive presence, and build brands. Erik has worked for companies ranging from startups all the way to the Fortune 500 across a wide...