1. Innovation in Technology Award - Award Nominees: Dow Corning
and Perrigo
2. Performance Excellence Award - Award Nominees: Xerox and Hertz
3. Process Excellence Award - Award Nominees: Merck and Pfizer
4. Business Evolution Award - Award Nominees: Agilent and
Constellation Brands
5. Executive Stewardship Award - Award Nominees: Leggett & Platt
and Santos Ltd.
"As the tough times continue, seasoned executives have come to understand
that many of their company's best opportunities and top priorities in this
business cycle play to the strengths and expertise of its procurement
department," said Andrew Bartolini, Aberdeen Group's Vice President of
Global Supply Management research. "We are once again extremely fortunate
to have assembled a peerless group of CPOs and other business leaders who
will join us in Boston to share their success stories and the strategies
they employed to achieve them." This year's presenters include:
-- Roy Anderson, Chief Procurement Officer, State Street Bank
-- Ron Carcamo, Chief Procurement Officer, Yahoo!
-- Bruce Kilkowski, Vice President, Procurement, JCPenney
-- David Parsley, President & CEO, Centralized Supply Chain Services, LLC
-- Wayne Evans, Sr. Vice President, Procurement, DHL
-- John Campi, Former CPO of Chrysler, Home Depot, and DuPont
-- Gus Pagonis, Retired US Army General & World Renowned Supply Chain
Expert
-- Marty Annas, Vice President, Equipment Procurement Group, Global
Purchasing, Xerox
-- David Dawson, Former Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Dell
-- Lynn Ridzon, Director, Global Strategic Sourcing - Travel, Meetings &
Events, Amgen
-- Shirley Kuhloie, Global Category Leader - Meetings, HP
-- BJ DeFelice, Division Global Sourcing Leader, GE Security
Qualified senior-level end user executives (Director level and above,
procurement-related end user executives only) are invited to attend the
summits at no charge.
To apply for attendance, please contact Greg.DeGuglielmo@aberdeen.com.
For more information about the summit please visit:
http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/cpo.html.
Technology vendors can sponsor the CPO Summit, being held on November
17-18, and showcase their solutions to this highly qualified audience of
procurement decision makers. For summit sponsorship opportunities, visit:
http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/Chief-Procurement-Officer-Summit/2009-cpo-summit-sponsors.html.
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