Married with 4 boys aged 20, 9, 7 and 5, Angelo has a busy and rewarding home life. Change management, structural development, employee engagement and continuous improvement are still important parts of his role as Vice President of Supply chain in the region UK/Ire and Benelux. With role responsibility across HSQE, Logistics, Assembly and Fabrication, Supply chain coordination, Data and Digital transformation, Manufacturing engineering, Permutations, Fleet, Facilities management and Procurement, Angelo finds his biggest challenge remains effective and productive time management. Driving strategy into performance, and bringing all his teams along for the ride, remain his priority.

Bjoern Neal Kirchner, a graduated economist from Munich and London universities, has almost 20 years’ experience in logistics and supply chain management at senior level. Shifting twice between China and Europe, he has worked in 5 countries moving along the entire supply chain. He gained experience in emerging markets and led teams through challenging SAP-implementations and post-merger integration projects. With the focus on building high performance teams, Bjoern has been engaged in various business process optimization and organizational transformation projects. Currently, he is leading the Global Supply Chain team in Amsterdam for Adhesive Technologies of HENKEL.

Bulent Erbas is the Global Supply Chain Director of Hayat Kimya A.S., a leading Turkish Multinational that operate in 13 different countries as the 5th biggest diaper producer globally, together with detergent and paper product categories. Before joining Hayat, Bulent works 23 years at Nestlé in Turkey and in Central West Africa at various senior Production, SC and Sales positions. Bulent is a Food Engineer and holds a Master degree in Business Management. Bulent’s strength comes from his various roles in different departments and in different geographies at his carrier, as well as the investment studies he lead or involved. Bulent also is a mentor at Hayat and at Istanbul Technical University.

Mr. ENACHE is managing Supply Chain activities related to new vehicle project for Dacia and Lada brands in the Renault Groupe. Mr. ENACHE has 11 years of experience in IT domain as IT manager for Dacia-Renault-Nissan SEE Sales Division and 9 years of experience in the supply chain and automotive industry as Plant Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Range Manager. He is very change oriented, a good coach for his team members and has very good sense of business. Searching the most innovative ways to improve product and services, optimizing costs and processes, and adding value for internal and external customers remain his priorities. In his personal life he is married with 3 children, two boys and a girl and his main hobby remain travelling with family and friends.

For the last 10 years, Dario has held sales and account leadership positions for supply chain/procurement technology vendors as well as leading the growth of the supply chain practice in D/A/CH for research advisory firm Gartner. As the VP Sales D/A/CH at Logility - a leading supply chain planning technology provider- he is currently responsible for supporting existing customers in their journey and growing the company’s footprint in the region.

Prior to his sales leadership roles for technology vendors, Dario spent 13 years working in London, where he held a variety of roles and responsibilities within the consulting and tech sector, ranging from Commercial Director at the Santander Bank (commercialising their in-house digital Ariba procurement platform and services) over to leading digital star-up initiatives and engagements at CSC Healthcare.

Dario is particularly passionate about helping companies in the region finding the right solution that can successfully transform their supply chain operations and overcome the recent supply-demand imbalances- and circumvent the disruptions- that have been caused by challenges brought about by COVID-19.

David is dedicated to creating optimal supply chain solutions for clients across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). His passion is applying over 25 years of experience in working clients in a variety of industry sectors including Retail, Consumer Products, Distribution, Telco, Manufacturing and Financial Services to create intelligent, resilient and sustainable supply chain solutions.

David's inspiration is driven by working with leading customers and IBM experts on addressing supply chain disruptions, and leveraging the latest technologies from the fields of AI, environmental and business intelligence.

David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab.  He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.

His Ph.D. students have accepted faculty positions in leading academic institutes including U. of California Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon U., Columbia U., Duke U., Georgia Tech, Harvard U., U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U. of Michigan, Purdue U. and Virginia Tech.

Professor Simchi-Levi is the current Editor-in-Chief of Management Science, one of the two flagship journals of INFORMS. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for Operations Research (2006-2012), the other flagship journal of INFORMS and for Naval Research Logistics (2003-2005).

In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.

He is an INFORMS Fellow and MSOM Distinguished Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Award given to an outstanding publication in military operations research; Ford Motor Company 2015 Engineering Excellence Award; 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; and 2009 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize.

He was the founder of LogicTools which provided software solutions and professional services for supply chain optimization. LogicTools became part of IBM in 2009. In 2012 he co-founded OPS Rules, an operations analytics consulting company. The company became part of Accenture in 2016. In 2014, he co-founded Opalytics, a cloud analytics platform company focusing on operations and supply chain decisions. The company became part of the Accenture Applied Intelligence in 2018.

Dr. Eleonore Steinert has 18 years of Leadership Experience in different global companies in Germany and France with a focus on Supply Chain Management/ Operations/ Sales Operations/Logistics/Procurement. An expert in Process Optimization/ Process Automation/Operational Excellence/
Lean Management (Lean Admin), Eleonore has several years of Project management experience in the Automotive Industry (Utility Vehicles/ OEM/ Supplier Industry). Eleonore is a professional in cost cutting programs, outsourcing and outtasking, including re-structuring of SCM tasks and has vast experience in leading international and cross-functional teams, Change
Management and Conflict Management.

Gülsün Akhisaroğlu is Global CIO of Hayat Holding A.S., leading Turkish enterprise which consists of 41 companies that operate in various industries including FMCG, port operations, construction, wood industry and energy. Before joining Hayat, she held various senior IT leadership roles in, SOCAR- Star Refinery, BMC Automotive, General Motors Turkey and General Motors Europe. She holds Master degree on both Computer Engineering and Business Administration. Her strength comes from her understanding of business strategies and leveraging the best-practices to deliver successful solutions. With her 25 years experiences, she works for the success of the organization by leading transformation of systems and processes and implementation of future proof technology and digital solutions.

Rajesh is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Teesside University’s Business School in the UK. Over the past 18 years, Rajesh has worked in different areas of science, business and technology across Europe, Asia and America. His primary research focuses on Business Intelligence for Industrial Automation (Industry 4.0). Before joining this role, Rajesh was the Head of Department for Technology Management and a Senior Scientist for Business Intelligence at one of the world’s renowned research institute in Germany (Fraunhofer Society). Rajesh has a BSc in Information Systems, MSc in Mechatronics and he pursued his Doctoral degree in Value Chain Engineering on a full industrial scholarship at one of the UK’s leading group ‘ Warwick Manufacturing Group’ at the University of Warwick. Rajesh has got several awards that includes 3 consecutive years of scientific excellence from Fraunhofer and the highly commendable award for the best international student of the year 2002 in Germany by the German Academic Council. Rajesh speaks 5 languages fluently including Russian and German. Rajesh has visited 55 countries for work, study and leisure.

With over 25 years’ experience in supply chain, Jonathan Jackman helps companies gain a competitive advantage through optimized planning. Jonathan enjoys discussions on how to enable the digital, sustainable supply chain and guiding organisations through the strategic transformation needed to become more resilient in today’s fast-moving environment.

Jonathan Jackman serves as the vice president of EMEA for Logility. His strong background in industry and consulting includes roles with Kurt Salmon Associates, Tompkins International and Schneider Electric and Premier Foods.  He holds a BA in Business from Staffordshire University and completed the Leadership Development Programme at the London School of Business.

Food Engineer graduated in 2003. Started my carrier in Unilever working in different areas of supply chain. 2 year in manufacturing where I became TPM instructor certified by JIPM in Japan. This knowledge I apply until today in order to understand the root causes of any issue and define measures to solve it. Another 6 year in supply planning and demand planning in Ice Cream business were I also got my CPIM APICS certification. The opportunity to work in different areas that were part of a typical S&OP in a company that is well-known as best in class in this process made me a true believer of the benefits of this process. In 2012, I changed to Robert Bosch to lead the supply chain for Power Tools in LA and do the S&OP implementation in the region. 2016, I moved to Germany to take the global responsibility for the Measuring Tool business units and also to implement the S&OP but in with a global scope this time. In parallel with my carrier, I made a specialization in Supply Chain Management by IBMEC University in Brazil. I also made a MBA by FDC and FGV in Brazil, each one with different approach, first more focus in preparing to lead people and second focusing more in how to implement process to manage efficiently a multinational business.

Jorin Preuß is Vice President Supply Chain Management at ElringKlinger AG. He joined the EK Group in 2015. Since then globally responsible for all operational supply chain departments in above 25 locations. With teams in headquarter in Germany and regional functions in America and Asia, the corporate functions assign transparency and standards for all operations, such as business units and the board. Establish SAP standard training and reports for better control of supply chain management. Introduce and modify key responsibilities to interlink departments of sales, purchase, production, finance, and IT. Answerable for Capex planning and publication for all logistics equipment globally. He holds a Diploma degree in industrial engineering. Starting 2008 in automotive industry in charge of several logistics and supply chain strategy projects for operational relocations, lean improvements and SAP standardizations. Instrumental to marginal cost control for crossover production as necessary for relocations and optimisations.

Luke Kerr is a former British Army Commander and Physical Training Instructor and is best known for his awarding winning successes in business and sport as a motivational leader, coach, mentor and instructor.

Luke is an experienced, successful and highly driven operations and supply chain transformational leader with a proven record of accomplishment of success within global manufacturing and distribution corporations across a wide range of markets that cover Automotive, Transportation, Wind Energy, Marine, Military, Retail and Government sectors. Providing high-level strategic planning, operational and financial management control whilst being able to go into the detail in order to apply continuous improvement techniques (Lean and Six Sigma) to increase business performance through operational efficiency and profitability.

A pro-active customer facing leader, results orientated, profit focused with productivity, profitability, quality, service, delivery and with health, safety and environmental transformation skills.

Extensive experience in strategy, growth, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, continuous improvement, change management, quality/profitability/efficiency initiatives and ERP systems.

Accomplished in leading major change programmes including business transformation, ERP implementation (SAP & Microsoft Dynamics), P&L management, cost reduction and performance management.

Over the past 25 years Luke has had varied and colourful career from serving in the forces on operations in Africa and Northern Ireland to competing in elite levels of sport from running and boxing in the Army, to working as FIFA Instructor in the middle east to running ultra-marathons across the UK & Europe whilst raising money for the mental health charity MIND.

Today Luke is well respected in business as an experienced, successful, and highly driven transformational supply chain and operations leader who creates and sustains high performing teams able to execute business strategy and deliver top line objectives whilst applying a lean six sigma methodology to achieve operations excellence. Luke has won various business awards for his ability to develop teams and gain business success.

Alongside business life and having a family Luke has dedicated 20 years of his life to date with developing beach sports more notable beach soccer where Luke served as Head Coach of England for over 3 years and went onto start both his own events company and various coaching organisations, today Luke holds variety of leadership roles across a variety of both business sand sports organisations.

Leon was born in Germiston, South Africa and has dual citizenship (South African/ UK) and graduated in 1991 from Pretoria Technikon in Mechanical Engineering. He is married with three children.

Leon is a charismatic leader, with extensive experience within the Automotive Industry covering tier 1, 2 and 3 companies. Leon is a visionary and a relentless catalyst for change, with a proven implementation track record built on an unremitting Customer First approach and a passion for People Development realised through investing in self-managing High Performing Teams.

Leon moved into his first leadership role in 1999 as Managing Director at Kwik Fit in South Africa. In 2002 he moved to Kwik Fit Group in Europe, where he assumed the duties of Group Product and Services Director to move the from fast fit company to Europe’s largest independent group of IAM workshops.

In 2011 he joined First Stop Europe, Bridgestone’s own brand tyre stores, as European Managing Director based in Belgium, he managed around 2,000 company owned and franchise tyre stores operating in 25 countries, whilst concurrently holding the position of Vice President of Retail Europe at Bridgestone Europe, where his key responsibility was for the Retail Family Channel strategic direction. He was a member of the European Executive Management team and the Global Marketing and Retail Committees.

Leon joined Toyota Motor Europe in 2014 as Vice President of After Sales, he managed After Sales in 52 countries for 3,300 Franchised Toyota and Lexus Retailers. He also managed the EU service parts distribution through over 20 warehouses. In 2017 his responsibilities expanded to cover the entire value chain driving the “vehicle life time value” strategy, by leading all the post vehicle sale teams, including Customer Experience & Retention, Aftersales, Warranty, Used Car, Finance and Insurance teams whilst continuing to manage the total service parts supply chain.

In 2019 Leon assumed the position as Vice President of Logistics, where his mission is to, “Exceed Customers expectations by delivering the right product at the right time, with the shortest lead-time through a sustainable, lean integrated supply chain for Production Parts (inbound), Finished Vehicle and Service parts Logistics, delivering as 15% cost reduction, with a 40% volume increase, with a team members in 25 countries, with logistics movements across 120 countries.

In addition, he serves as Chairman of Board and Director of various Toyota subsidiaries and is a member of Toyota’s Global Strategic management teams for accessories, parts and logistics.

Martin Kelman is the chief digital transformation office for ATS Global and leads the Atlas innovation group developing and maturing the latest digital technologies.

Martin has worked in the manufacturing sector for over 30 years, designing and delivering solutions in both process and discrete industries. He is an indentured apprentice in the nuclear industry with UKAEA, has worked offshore in the oil industry, and for the last 15 years with the UK aerospace industry. His knowledge covers everything from the control domain through to SaaS business models based on cloud and mobile technologies.

Alongside his day job, Martin gained an Open University honours degree and is an active member of the Institute of Technology and Engineering. Heading up Atlas, Martin helps ATS Global customers achieve their innovation dreams.

Sebastian Sołtys – associated with LPP for 14 years. Currently, he is responsible for the global supply and distribution network of LPP Group, one of the most dynamically developing companies in the clothing industry in Central and Eastern Europe, which annually distributes over 259 million items of clothing to 30 markets worldwide.

The beginning of his career at LPP was marked by supervision of the construction project of the Group’s first distribution centre– the facility currently ranked among the largest and most modern of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, ensuring smooth deliveries to the stationary sales network of Reserved, House, Mohito, Cropp, and Sinsay brands. As Director of the distribution centre, he was responsible for the concepts of the facility’s advanced automation.

In the following years, he held the position of Supply Chain Management Director supervising the creation of forwarding processes and international distribution of LPP to over 20 countries. Then, as Director of Foreign Logistics, he was responsible for setting up LPP Group’s foreign logistics structures and launching the Group’s first foreign warehouse located in Russia.

From 2018 to 2019, he held the position of CEO of VGL Group, a logistics operator, and subsequently rejoined LPP Group, where he currently holds the position of Logistics Director. He manages LPP’s global omnichannel logistics processes and the logistics network of seven LPP Distribution Center and Fulfillment Center facilities located in four European countries.

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Gottschalk studied Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen in Germany and INSA de Lyon in France. He did his PhD studies on Production Engineering and obtained an Executive MBA title of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). After working as leader of the business unit Production Management in industry consultancy and research at the RWTH Aachen he joined Beiersdorf AG in 2009. He took here the global responsibility for the production network development and Beiersdorf´s global production efficiency program and built and started-up the company’s biggest overseas facility in Mexico. Today Sebastian is leading Beiersdorf’s Supply Chain Transformation and global Engineering. He is responsible for the factory master planning and Capex program for the production network.

Simon obtained his degree and PhD in organic chemistry from the University of East Anglia, and completed two post-doctoral positions in Lisbon and Birmingham before moving into industry in 2006. After a brief spell working at Pfizer Simon joined SAFC Pharma in early 2007 as a shift chemist on the GMP production plant. Simon’s ability to effectively trouble shoot and identify process improvements gave him the opportunity to progress within SAFC, holding several positions of increasing responsibility before being appointed plant manager. In 2013 Simon made the switch to gene therapy, moving to Oxford Biomedica. As the Vice President, Head of Manufacturing Simon has overseen the expansion the Manufacturing department, increasing production output by eliminating process wastage and through two capacity expansion projects. Five years after bring manufacturing in-house, Oxford Biomedica was approved as the world’s first commercial manufacture of a Lentiviral vector gene therapy and continues to make strides in reducing the cost of ATMP’s by the introduction of its second generation suspension process.

Søren Asmussen is 48 years old, from Denmark and is the head of Development at BESTSELLER. He has been working within Logistics and Supply Chain for the past almost 30 years, from warehouse floor to strategy room. Working within retail, 3PL and production. Focusing on optimizing, implementing and building supply chain systems. Privately married to Helle, 2 teenage daughters and living an active life as a fitness instructor in Horsens DK.

In 2015, Sven joined Thai Union, first as Group Strategy Director and now as Operations Director Europe. He is responsible for all Supply Chain-related matters — production in Europe and Africa, S&OP, procurement, R&D and quality assurance.

Prior to Thai Union, Sven has spent 16 years in strategic consultancy with focus on Consumer Goods industries and was a Partner at PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He studied business administration and holds a PhD in Corporate Planning.

Mr Gorath, Head of Supply Chain at Bharat Forge Global Holding, is globally responsible for supply chain management. Mr. Gorath has 20 years of experience in the supply chain and automotive industry and brings exhaustive knowledge of supply chain management, operational & strategic planning. He joined Bharat Forge CDP in 2010 to switch to Bharat Forge Global Holding in 2020. Mr. Gorath manages the supply chain activities and ensures, that they are fully integrated between various departments/functions, vendors, and plants where applicable. With his global role and responsibility for SCM in the matrix, he is a direct report to the corporate board in India.