Procurecon MRO 2019 | Worldwide Business Research | 28 October 2019 | Westin Buckhead Atlanta, 3391 Peachtree Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30326 USA

For too long, MRO has been a fractured category. Join 150+ practitioners for a collaborative discussion on how to move MRO into the 21st century. ProcureCon MRO will arm practitioners with strategies to modernize MRO spend, gain more spend under management, reduce POs and suppliers, and benchmark against other companies.

2019 Speakers

Wemdel Socolovithic
Global Commodity Manager, MRO - AGCO Corporation

Rahul Chande
Director – Procurement Systems and Tactical Execution, Amcor

Alex Neu
MRO Procurement Director, Anheuser-Busch

Lisa Pratt
Global Category Manager – MRO, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Chris Dunphy
Sr. Global Strategic Sourcing Manager, Becton Dickinson

Chris Aldag
Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Bunge

Ryan Neimeyer
MRO Strategic Sourcing Manager, Bunge

Abhijit Kondajji
Strategic Sourcing Plant Materials and Services, Cargill

Steven Bosch
Global Strategic Sourcing Lead-Plant Materials and Services, Cargill

Otto Ganguli
Global Data & Analytics Lead, Cargill

Kandarp Patel
Supplier Diversity Manager/Global Category Manager, Caterpillar Inc.

Jeremy Yanek
Senior Category Manager, Cox Communication

Mike Bestor
Strategic Sourcing Manager- CapEx & MRO, Darigold

Stefan Obenland
Senior Sourcing Manager, DiversiTech

Jennifer Matthews
MRO Category Manager, Donaldson Company, Inc.

Mike Kinzel
MRO Category Manager & Indirect Sourcing Leader, DuPont

Mariano Matzkin
MRO/PVFF Global Category Manager, Exxon Mobil Corp.

Castrec Truong
Global Sourcing Manager MRO, General Mills

Celeste Dederer
Sourcing Manager, General Mills

Richard Ballard
NA Commodity Manager, Indirect Materials & Services, Gerdau Group

Derek Richards
Senior Category Manager - Indirect Materials & Services, Gerdau

Betty Sun
Director, Strategic Sourcing, Gilead Sciences

Jason Mellon
Sr. Global Category Manager – MRO, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Darcey Eisenbeil
Sourcing Specialist, The Hershey's Company

Jacob McCombs
MRO Sourcing and Strategy, Honda of America Mfg.

Gijo George
Business Unit Director, Food & Beverage, Hyster-Yale Group

Tamera Shively
Sourcing Manager - Indirect Procurement Americas, ICL Specialty Products Inc.

Elliott Batchelder
Formerly MRO & CapEx Procurement Engineer, James Hardie Building Products

Brad Johnson
Director, Indirect Procurement, Keane Group

Nicole McCarthy
Director Procurement Capital Equipment and MROS, Kellogg Company

Zach Vineyard
Sr. Manager, Indirect Procurement – Capex/MRO, The Kraft Heinz Company

Elizabeth Dill
MRO Manager, La-Z-Boy

Emilia Castro
Formerly Global Director, Indirect Services & MRO Services, Littelfuse

Robert Copeland
Global Category Manager - MRO, Materion Corporation

Lisa Torres
Senior Director - Global Capital and MRO Procurement, McCain Foods USA

Julia Nelsen
MRO Sr. Sourcing Specialist

Mihai Sofronie
Head of Procurement Corporate Services and Logistics, Panasonic USA

Kenneth Yarberry
Senior Director, Sourcing and Procurement, Reynolds Consumer Products

Laurette Lammers
Sourcing Manager – MRO and Indirect, Rockline Industries

Elizabeth Mozley
Senior Category Manager, Sonoco

Jim Gunter
Capital, MRO & Facility Mgt, Corporate Procurement, Sonoco

Tim McAlister
General Manager - Generation Category Mgmt & Transactions, Southern Company

James Emerson
Indirect Category Leader - Equipment, Service & Supply NA, TechnipFMC

INDUSTRY EPERTS:

Darrell Graf
Director - Strategic Accounts, Applied Industrial Technologies

Jeff Devon
Facilitator, CASME

Bill Michaels
Vice President of Operations Americas, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)

Phil Broughton
Head of Business Programs (The Americas), Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)

Peter Benson
Executive Director, ECCMA

Nils Hansen
Senior Category Manager – Business & Industrial, eBay Business Supply

Kevin Hartler
Senior Director, Grainger

Dave McGowan
Vice President, IM Supply

Simeon Chiger
Director, B2B eCommerce Integration & Optimization, MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Fred Renteria
Fred Renteria, Procurement Advisors

Jamie Crump
President & CEO, The Richwell Group

Tom Barrett
Senior Director, Administrative Services and Client Solutions, SDI, Inc.

Byron Lipper
Vice President MRO, Sphera

David Stroud
Vice President MRO, Sphera

Jim Lansdale
VP Business Development, Vallen

Eric Wilk
CEO and Managing Director, Wurth Van Horn

Amarish Kapadia
VP of Automotive & Manufacturing Practice, Xeeva

Charles Marshall
Motivational Speaker, Comedian & Author

Ryan Kulp
Program Director, WBR (ProcureCon)

2019 Lead Sponsors & Partners

• SDI
• Wolseley Industrial Group
• Applied Industrial Technologies
• DXP Enterprises
• Grainger
• Fastenal
• IM Supply
• Xeeva
• MSC Industrial Supply
Synovos
• Sphera
• Procurement Advisors
• eBay Business
• Amazon Business
• Vallen