The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series recorded last November in San Diego we spoke with Joao Paulo Mattos, Thermo Fisher Scientific's Director, Global Process Validation and CMC Lead, about a number of industry trends and issues he is hearing about. In particular, biopharmaceutical manufacturers and technical operations executives want to accelerate their thro...

Amir Ghannad 's corporate career began at Procter and Gamble, where over the course of 18 years he held a variety of manufacturing leadership positions in the US, Southeast Asia, and Europe. He also served as a Plant Director at Sunny Delight Beverages Company for eight years where he led the Atlanta plant operations and the company’s Workplace Excellence efforts before taking on Campbell Sou...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we sat down with Luke Leslie, the CEO of Carbon Neutral Royalty Ltd, to talk about Carbon offsets and the rapidly evolving marketplace where they are being offered, evaluated, bought, and sold. As every company works to build sustainability plans that will meet and exceed the expectations of stakeholders an...

At the 2023 edition of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit series held in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-21, we sat down with Bruno Ivanoff, the Global Strategic Supply Chain Director of Comet Group, to talk about a themed lunch discussion he hosted with ten other senior supply chain executives revolving around the data collection and renewable energy sourcing in support of their companies'...

At the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Allyn Bailey, SmartRecruiters' Executive Director, Hiring Success Services, to talk about what's new in the world of recruiting. In this wide-ranging conversation we explore talent attraction in the New Normal of Work, being an employer of choice in a post-COVID business environment, and the power of technolog...

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with Olawale "Wale" Ojo, the Sr. Global Lean Director at Griffith Foods, to talk about the power of upskilling employees in a culture of Continuous Improvement. Olawale hosted a themed lunch discussion on this topic with a number of other manufacturing l...

At the most recent edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held May 15-16, 2023, in Boston, we spoke with Judith Koliwer, PhD, the Principal Consultant Cell & Gene Therapy Software, Körber Business Area Pharma at Körber Pharma Software. Judith is one of the industry’s leading experts on Cell and Gene Therapies, as she led an academic research group on CGT processes years before these...

At the 2023 edition of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit series held in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-21, we spoke with Puneet Shukla, the Regional Head of EMEA for EdgeVerve, an Infosys Company, about how companies are leveraging technology to build both resiliency and competitive advantage into their supply chains through interconnected autonomous operations. How should organizations adjust...

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we spoke with Nick Haase, the Co-Founder, Go-To-Market of MaintainX, about what the Digital Revolution can really offer frontline workers, and how manufacturers now more than ever are bridging the gap between the high-level data analysis done by subject matter experts and the...

Myles Downey has thirty years of experience as one of Europe’s leading business performance coaches working with the senior leadership of some of the world’s top organizations in the banking, manufacturing, energy, professional services, and public sectors. He is the founder of The School of Coach, a highly respected provider of coach training and executive coaching in the United Kingdom and Europ...

Dawn Green is the North America Procurement Vice President for Schneider Electric, and she leads a team of highly dynamic and experienced professionals responsible for $9-billion of revenue spend in North America.  She is an accomplished global procurement and supply chain management business leader with a record for driving business growth and operational efficiency.  Her focus includes raw mater...

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we spoke with Johan Beukema, a Managing Partner of BCI Global, about the new business realities that are breathing fresh life and immediacy into Reshoring. Almost since the first days of offshoring, there have also been conversations around reshoring, or nearshoring, or right...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Trinity Lloyd, Google Cloud's Sustainability & Energy Transition Leader, NorthAM GTM, about the role data plays both in helping Sustainability professionals achieve their goals, but also in bringing quantifiable positive impact...

At the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we spoke with Kristin Spodobalski of Wellthy about one of the most impactful things companies can do to support their people: Offer help when they are taking care of loved ones. It is beyond our control to know when we might need to take care of a friend or loved one, but when that responsibility does come to us, of course it is a prior...

At the most recent edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held May 15-16, 2023, in Boston, we spoke with Michael Kamarck, a senior industry executive, and Pascal Bécotte, the Managing Director of Russell Reynolds Associates, about the most serious challenge threatening to bottleneck the otherwise very bright future of medicine. For a number of reasons explored in both this interview and...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit   series held in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Tony Tiscornia, the CFO of Coupa Software, about the top  priorities for CFOs and finance leaders across every industry: Reducing costs and improving margins, enhancing agility and productivity, mitigating risk, and optimizing performance. How does Business Spend Management (BSM) engage w...

Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe. Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions. Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority thro...

Drew Dudley is the Wall Street Journal-bestselling author of, This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership that Matters. He has spoken to more than a quarter of a million people on five continents, has been featured on The Huffington Post, Radio America, Forbes.com, and also TED.com where his TED talk, “Everyday Leadership (the Lollipop Moment)” has been viewed more than five million times, wa...

At the most recent edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held May 15-16, 2023, in Boston, we spoke with Teresa Gorecki of Compliance Architects LLC about what pharmaceutical manufacturers should expect from regulators as the pandemic winds down, where we are and where we're going as the pipeline of Cell & Gene Therapies marches towards commercialization, and a wide range of oth...

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series recorded last November in San Diego we spoke with Joe Perreira, TOWER Cold Chain's West Coast Business Development Manager, about how the needs of biopharmaceutical manufacturers are changing —particularly in reference to temperature-controlled and cold chain solutions— and how a new generation of services and solutions ar...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit   series held October 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Martti Nurminen of Basware about how Finance teams are dealing with uncertainty and disruption, especially as it relates to new trends in procurement and invoicing. This is a great conversation that should be of interest to anyone who is rethinking and reevaluating their bus...

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with James Newman and Brian Richmond of Augury to talk about the concept of Production Health, which has grown from its beginnings in Machine Health to encapsulate the idea that understanding what is happening in your manufacturing facilities through the power of...

For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we had three of the top speakers from the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence 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. In this wide-rangi...

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Fred Stahl, a Senior Director with Dot Compliance, about the importance of bringing all the QA/QC processes pharmaceutical manufacturers already apply in their own operations out to their partners and suppliers. Building visibility and transparency up and down the value cha...

At the 2023 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, we sat down with Willem Sundblad of Oden Technologies to talk about what the fruits of Digital Transformation can really offer the shopfloor. In the changing business landscape of high turnover in a tight labor market, manufacturers are refocusing and redoubling their efforts...