Thank you for joining us at SievoFriends 2022 Chicago!

Sievo's annual customer event was held in Willis Tower in Chicago, from 20-21 September, 2022.

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Special Thanks to our amazing speakers this year

Aylin Basom

Aylin Basom

Aylin is the Chief Executive Officer of supplier.io, pioneer and market leading SaaS supplier diversity management platform.

She has 15+ years of experience in technology, working with global customers, building high-performing teams and delivering SaaS solutions to companies across industries and markets.

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Lawrence Conway

Lawrence Conway

Lawrence is the Chief Transformation Officer at Cambrex, a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), which develops and manufactures products for branded and generic pharmaceutical customers.

At Cambrex, he oversees Operational Excellence and Strategic Procurement.

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Leslie Fernandes

Leslie Fernandes

Leslie is Manager, Financial Systems Data Analysis at Stanford University.

He is responsible for providing data analytics for spend management initiatives across the University and for integrating the Spend Analytics Platform to support University Strategic Goals in support of Supplier Diversity and Scope 3 Emissions in Sustainability.

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Chantale Rouleau

Chantale Rouleau

Chantale Rouleau is corporate procurement director at the Cascades Supply Chain center of expertise (COE). In this role, she is responsible for defining and executing the procurement strategy for the company.

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Nitin Balakrishnan

Nitin Balakrishnan

Nitin Balakrishnan has 4 years of Procurement experience in the Pharma space and joined Bristol Myers Squibb from Bayer where he was Global Category Lead, Procurement Consumer Health Product Supply. Prior to that, he was a part of a fast-paced  Leadership Development program in the procurement organization with rotations across both Direct and Indirect Procurement areas.

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Brad Eldon

Brad Eldon

Brad Eldon has 20+ years of experience collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver value at leading biopharmaceutical companies. He joined Bristol Myers Squibb via Celgene thirteen years ago and has held several sourcing and category management roles covering a broad range of indirect spend.

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Peter Nicholson

Peter Nicholson

35+ years experience in custom packaging equipment with Niche Market Selling, Engineering, Operations and Business Leadership roles in North America and Europe. Sievo Program Implementation Leader for Barry-Wehmiller.

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Robert Fuhrmann

Robert Fuhrmann

Robert Fuhrmann has over 24 years of experience at Accenture and leads the Sourcing and Procurement Advisory Practice.  He is C-suite advisor deeply experienced in the latest procurement trends, strategic spend transformation / zero based approaches, and end to end transformation and organizational redesign.  

See you at SievoFriends 2023!

See you at SievoFriends 2023!

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About SievoFriends Chicago

SievoFriends is our yearly customer event, where we mingle, share successes, and discuss the newest opportunities in procurement.

This event is meant for our customers and partners so is by invite-only, but if you are interested, ask your Sievonian about joining.

ImpactNow was our first sustainable procurement event, focused on Scope 3 emissions and sustainable performance in procurement.