The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Amrit Chaudhuri, SmartLabs co-founder and CEO, about the power of modular enterprise-grade laboratories and related infrastructure that can be scaled and reconfigured as needed to fundamentally and dramatically change the price and timelines involved in developing the next generat...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Justin Foley, the VP of Commercial Business Development and Implementation Services for C.H. Robinson, about supply chain resiliency in an increasingly more expensive world. How should shippers reduce the financial and customer impacts of global disruptions? How are 4PLs he...

Rachel Lei is the CEO of Keltic Canada Development, a real estate development company in Vancouver, British Columbia. She hosted a roundtable lunch and learn roundtable discussion on, "Benefits and Compensation: How to Incentivize and Motivate Senior Leaders" at the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit this past December in Orlando. Afterwards she sat down with us to sh...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Dr. Behnam Ahmadian Baghbaderani, Lonza's Global Head of Process Development, Cell & Gene Technologies, about where the industry is now on Cell and Gene Therapy commercialization, where it wants to be in the next few years, and how biopharmaceutical manufacturers are buil...

 At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Kevin Shoemaker, Avalara's Director of Global Trade Solutions, on how customer-centric supply chains have focused on visibility and traceability as the key competitive advantage to meet the evolving needs and wants of the customer, especially as it relates to the cost...

At the 2022 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series held November 13th to 15th in San Diego, we spoke with Andrzej Zylicz and Davide Buratti of PQE Group about one of the biggest trends biopharmaceutical manufacturers are facing today: Getting ready for the enormous changes Cell and Gene Therapy commercialization will bring to an industry that is already defined by rapid transformation...

Monique Matheson, Nike's EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer, was one of the opening keynote speakers at the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit  this past December in Orlando. She spoke in great detail about how Nike listened to its workforce during and after the worst of the pandemic, and through ongoing engagement the company has crafted a strategy where the existing work...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit held October 23rd to the 25th in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Jason Lewis of HighRadius. Finance leaders are now seeing the benefit of a whole new generation of powerful AI and automation tools that can free them from the drudgery of repetitive tasks and manual data collection, processing, and analysis to focus on the bigger picture...

At the 2022 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we spoke with Josefien Glaudemans of BCI Global. The Global War for Talent has only grown fiercer in the New Normal of Work. Where companies choose to operate can make the difference between winning and losing, but what factors are involved in that decision-making process? How should organizations weigh the pros and cons of the differen...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit held October 23rd to the 25th in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Tanner Roeller of Divvy. Business expenses have always been a time- and attention-intensive part of a Finance Team's job. Spend management is an area where all the details matter, and small issues can become big problems over time if something get's missed. Techn...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit held October 23rd to the 25th in Phoenix, AZ, we spoke with Jeff Miller of Board Americas about how a new generation of tools and technologies is allowing Finance teams to connect and share both internally and externally in a way that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. Going beyond just pooling data, the most effect...

Just about everyone who listens to this podcast also reads business books, and more than a few of those people have probably thought about writing one someday. What is involved in that, exactly? What makes a good one? What happens between inspiration and publication? There are a lot of moving pieces behind the scenes, and for readers interested in where their books come from, or potential writers...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Pranav Padgaonkar, GEP Worldwide's VP of Supply Chain and Procurement, on the importance of converging supply chain and procurement operations to build visibility, collaboration, and most importantly resiliency in a more expensive and disruptive business environment. W...

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2022 held September 27th and 28th in Chicago, we spoke with Joe Heinzelmann and Luke Thevenet of Neogen about the exciting union with 3M Food Safety, and what that means for FSQ professionals. In addition to even greater capabilities and offerings relevant to Food Safety and Quality, this merger also further reinforces Neogen's leadership in bringin...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Joseph Slater, a Business Consultant with Logility, on how understanding what is going on in supply chains is the key to managing risk and overcoming the challenges of disruption. With that said, data management and analytics is easier said than done. How should supply chai...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Larry Layden, an SVP with UCBOS, about how leading supply chain organizations are recognizing the new capabilities of the Digital Revolution can be focused and targeted down on specific issues and challenges, and that the tools can be democratized into the hands of everyone...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Derek Bealby of AFMS, LLC about how supply chain leaders can get their arms around spiraling shipping costs in a world of inflation, rising labor costs, rising fuel costs, and frequent disruptions. Many 3PLs are under intense pressure to pass their costs on to their custome...

At the 2022 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series held September 11-13 in Chicago, we spoke with Madhav Durbha, the VP, Supply Chain Strategy of Coupa, about building resiliency and sustainability into supply chains, and the role Centers of Excellence play in gathering together the right people with the right tools and processes to drive successful outcomes. As resilie...

At the 2022 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series held March 29-30 in Boston, MA, we spoke with Glenn Griffin of Aizon about how pharmaceutical manufacturers are using Artificial Intelligence. What can these powerful new tools do in the Life Sciences space, and how does that differ from applications in other industries? How does Compliance shape strategy when it comes to leveragi...

At the 2022 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series held March 29-30 in Boston, MA, we spoke with Daniel Dennehy of CoreRx about how pharmaceutical manufacturers are looking to enhance capacity and improve their speed in both the clinical and commercial space in a constrained business environment. From virtual and small companies all the way through to giants in the industry, every...

One of the most popular features at Executive Platforms events are the lunch-and-learn roundtable discussions hosted by attendees for attendees. The only downside is that by their very nature, only ten people can participate on any given topic to allow everyone to contribute to an interactive and free-ranging conversation. In this episode of the bluEPrint podcast we speak with Skotti Fietsam, the...

Data Management is a major topic of discussion for every agenda Executive Platforms organizes, but there are added dimensions of complexity when that conversation is amongst senior leaders of pharma manufacturing. At the 2022 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit series held March 29-30 in Boston, MA, we spoke with Brooke Cote of Elemental Machines about the current issues and trends sh...

One of the most popular features at Executive Platforms events are the lunch-and-learn roundtable discussions hosted by attendees for attendees. The only downside is by their very nature, only ten people can participate on any given topic to allow everyone to contribute to an interactive and free-ranging conversation. In this episode of the bluEPrint podcast we speak with Jeff Estes, the General M...

Supply Chain disruption has been the story of the year across almost all industries, and the pharmaceutical sector has a further twist as Operation Warp Speed drew any and all resources it deemed necessary for COVID treatments at the expense of other companies. How have pharmaceutical manufacturers adjusted their supply chain thinking to respond to this changing business landscape, and where do CM...

Gregory S. Smith is the CIO of the American Kidney Fund, a professor at Georgetown University, and the author of five books, the most recent of which is The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever . In this interview we talk about his new book and his thoughts on the pandemic and post-pandemic business landscape. Did COVID-19 accelerate trends that were alr...