The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held in Chicago, we spoke with Warren Hojnacki, SGS North America's Regional Manager for Midwestern Plain States, about a topic of primary importance to every FSQ professional: Risk, especially as it manifests itself in the supply chain. What should Food Safety and Food Quality leaders be doing to better identify and mitigate risks in their sup...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Allister Furey, Co-Founder & CEO and Sylvera Ltd, about the Carbon Market and what organizations of all shapes and sizes need to know about the quality and availability of the carbon credits available on a rapidly evolving market as...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we spoke with Michael Conley, a Technology Consulting Advisor with Wolters Kluwer, on Integrated Business Planning and its growing role in the world of supply chain professionals. How should organizations rethink their decision-making and planning to bring department heads together? How should teams share information an...

Robbie Friedman has a law degree from the University of Michigan and worked as a lawyer for a few years before launching a start-up dedicated to bringing better transparency and communication to the attorney-client relationship. After selling that business, Robbie co-founded ootBox , a company that takes shipping containers and turns them into moveable, temporary, and beautiful workspaces that can...

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held in Chicago, we spoke with Gary Iles and Paul Bradley of TraceGains about the need to build supply chain agility and resiliency into how the Food industry works, and how understanding the data drives timely decision-making that keeps customers safe and happy. What does that look like in real terms? How is the work of FSQ professionals changing t...

At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Jon Emery, a Sr. Solutions Engineer with Aizon, about the biopharmaceutical industry's urgent need to break down data silos between manufacturers and their CMO and CDMO partners. As the capacity crunch continues to bottleneck the pipeline of new medicines and therapies...

Human Resources as a discipline, as a profession, and as a business function is always evolving, and there has been dramatic change in recent years. In this interview we speak with Dr. Steven Hunt about his new book, Talent Tectonics , which explores navigating global workforce shifts, building resilient organizations, and reimagining the employee experience, all within the context of the large so...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Matt Helgeson, Siemens' Head of Sustainability, Siemens USA, about the power of the Digital Revolution in helping organizations understand and improve their ESG performance as part of the larger movement in all industries to harnes...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we spoke with Ed Elsbury, a Partner with Reveal USA, on how supply chain leaders are leveraging their technology and their data to empower their people to cut through the noise and make informed decisions that improve service levels. Navigating an evolving business landscape after a period of crisis and in a 'new n...

Bill Good will be presenting a case study at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit next month in Fort Worth, Texas, but first he shares some of what he wants to talk about with The bluEPrint! In this wide-ranging interview, we talk about several new programs and approaches GE Appliances has found success with in its Talent and Workforce Development efforts as businesses everywhere ada...

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 in Chicago, we spoke with Giannis Stoitsis, a Partner & CTO of Agroknow, about what Artificial Intelligence can offer FSQ professionals. Emerging risks are becoming more frequent,  which reduces consumers’ trust in the food supply chain. Predictive analytics using AI drawing on Big Data gathered throughout the value chain offers the food industr...

Bart Talloen will deliver a keynote address at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit next month in Fort Worth, Texas, but first he gave an extended interview to The bluEPrint! In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about understanding the customer to build supply chain strategies that keep businesses innovating and building competitive advantage. We highlighted the power of partner...

Victoria Pasquale is the SVP of Human Resources of Pritchard Industries a commercial cleaning and janitorial services company with 18,000 employees in 30 states. She hosted a roundtable lunch and learn roundtable discussion on, "Navigating Cost Controls in the World of Private Equity" at the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit this past December in Orlando. Afterwards...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Jack Garvey, the CEO of Compliance Architects. Jack is a long-time supporter of Executive Platforms' pharmaceutical manufacturing series who has co-chaired many of our events on content related to Quality and Risk, and in this interview we discussed how CMC maturity connects...

Natalie Wilkinson will be doing a fireside chat at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit next month in Fort Worth, Texas, but first she shares some of what she wants to talk about with The bluEPrint! In this interview we discuss some of the exciting transformations happening at Toyota today, especially in relation to Sustainability, electrified vehicles, and how technology continues t...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Jeff Miller, a Solutions Architect with Board Americas, on how supply chain leaders can establish a foundation of communication, collaboration, and coordination upon which to build a modern supply chain organization that will stand the test of time. How should teams share i...

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Suzanne Long, the Chief Sustainability and Transformation Officer of Albertsons Companies, about how her organization plans to eliminate food waste going to landfills by 2030, as well as the power of "Systems Thinking" to make...

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held September 27th and 28th in Chicago, we spoke with Angela Nardone, the Chief Operating Officer of Share-ify. How should FSQ teams leverage technology to better understand their products as it moves along the value chain from supplier to consumer? What is possible when the front-line workers have access to the information and instructions they ne...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Rick Johnston of Applied Materials about how some of the tools and processes that apply to making other products like semi-conductors apply to pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Life Sciences are often seen as being a little behind the curve when it comes to the Digital Revolution....

At the 2023 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series held January 31st through February 1st in Austin, Texas,  we spoke with Amanda Petzinger of Benchmark ESG about how Sustainability's growing role and importance within every organization is seeing many executives whose work already included environmental monitoring tasked and empowered with gathering,...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Kevin Kelly of INCOG Biopharma about how CDMOs are engaging with biopharmaceutical companies from clinical stage programs right through to commercial production to help them with scaling and capacity at a crucial moment for the industry. What does building a partnership with a CDM...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Bart De Muynck, project44's Chief Industry Officer, on the power of supply chain collaboration to build resilient, agile, transparent, versatile value chains in an increasingly turbulent business environment. No one organization can be expected to have all the informat...

At the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we spoke with Jess Marble of Care.com about one of the most powerful things an employer can do for its employees: Understand they have important and often challenging commitments outside the workplace, and offer to help. Whether it's childcare, someone with special needs, taking care of an elderly loved one, or any of a hundred oth...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Luke Guerrero of QbDVision, Inc. about how the biopharmaceutical industry's use of digital tools is now maturing to the point where collaboration towards common goals is now possible. Building upon the excellent conversation we had last year with another member of the QBDVisi...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit   series held October 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Tom Hood, CPA, CGMA, the EVP – Business Engagement and Growth of AICPA-CIMA. More and more, finance professionals are leveraging digital tools as part of their growing role as strategic partners in their organizations' strategic decision-making. What are some ideas and...