Miguel Gonzalez works for DuPont and he has global responsibility for corporate logistics, both procurement and operations. Originally from Spain, he started his career in Procurement and Supply Chain with General Electric Plastics and has later worked for Nalco Chemical and Kraft Foods. Miguel has lived in Spain, The Netherlands and currently in the USA, together with his wife and two sons. He has a degree in Business Administration and an MBA from ESERP Business School.

Thomas joined BASF in 1998 into the logistics organisation before relocating to Asia in 2006. Between 2006 and 2010 Thomas headed up the Supply Chain Management and IT organisation of BASF in Korea and in 2010 became the Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in China as a result of a joint venture with Sinopec. Following his return in 2013, Thomas was Vice President of Supply Chain Operations for Europe. As of March 1st 2017 he became Head of Global Supply Chain & FFP/FCC Operations Crop Protection. Thomas joined the LogiChem Advisory Board in 2014 and has played an integral role in ensuring the programme addresses the industry's most critical challenges

Ed is the Director for Supply Chain Planning EMEA at Shell Lubricants. A resourceful leader recognised for creating transformational change in Supply Chain environments; Ed has 25 years of end to end experience, leading large teams in a number of industries. He delivers high operational performance in the day to day business simultaneously with structural, technical and process change programmes, yielding substantial cost reduction and improved effectiveness.

Jan is the Head of Global Logistics for Borealis. His main responsibilities include purchasing of all logistics activities, globally, as well as project responsibilities for all logistics project in relation to M & A and green field operation. Most recently, Jan considers his biggest success to be moving Logistics from a cost center approach to a value-added approach. Jan considers his greatest challenges to date to be attracting new, young talent and making supply chain an attractive field to work in.

Frank is responsible for operations management of Covestro’s transport operations throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. Managing the safety, reliability and efficiency of a large diverse logistics networks, involving all modes of transport and spanning such a large geographic area, requires a continuous systematic improvement effort and constant communication on all levels. Frank has been a strong promoter of collaboration and deeper integration of processes along chemical transport chains. One of his biggest achievement has been the establishment of a large scale dynamic transport management platform for European bulk transports in tank container and road tanker across Europe. In his presentation he will highlight the opportunities which he is convinced are offered by digitalization and how a more dynamic approach towards managing chemical transports can help to make chemical transport more sustainable.

As the Head of Supply Chain, Tove has global responsibility for procurement, supply chain operations and IT in Yara International. Having assumed the position in February 2016, Tove's main focus after the taking over has been to create a well functioning team and set direction by launching a transformation program which will deliver significant EBITDA improvements for Yara the next years. Tove considers this to be her biggest success over the past 6 months. This transformation program includes new improved tools and digital interfaces in the supply chain area, a global procurement transformation to create a world class procurement organization and significant changes within IT to bring IT and business closer together to enable quicker response to the digital driven challenges and opportunities. Her most biggest challenge over the past 6 months, has been in optimizing Yara's intergrated business model and in leveraging Yara's scale in both production and commercial segments. Our task is to optimize Yara’s integrated business model and leverage our scale in both procurement and supply chain operations. Yara is a result of significant smaller M&A activities resulting in that all plants are slightly different and all markets operate somewhat different processes. This creates significant challenges to take out the full potential of scale effects and drive process improvements in our operations. This often means speed and agility in developing new solutions can be challenging. Collaboration with the other segments and functions are key in order to address this and harmonize across plants and markets to take out the value potential.

The main responsibilities of Joris and his team are production planning (long-, mid- and short term), Verbund optimization, logistic concepts and optimization, material management, process optimization. Among others, Joris and his team consider their most recent successes to be managing the Verbund and ensuring a high delivery reliability for our customers in several crisis situations Meanwhile, their biggest challenge has been in increasing team capabilities and balancing operational topics/trouble shooting and tactical/strategic optimization.

Paul Gooch founded The Logical Group GmbH in 2005, as a boutique Supply Chain & Logistics Consultancy with a focus on chemical industry shippers and logistics suppliers. Prior to founding the consultancy business Paul was a career executive in supply chain and logistics in the oil and chemical industries, holding senior business, functional, and Management Board roles based in the United Kingdom, Benelux, and Switzerland. Paul is a Director of Borderless Executive Search providing specialised knowledge and consultant network support for supply chain-related searches, and is engaged in Borderless Leadership Consulting projects. As a member of the European Petrochemical Association’s Supply Chain Committee Paul has co-authored several EPCA reports on Supply Chain excellence, sustainability, and chemical clusters. He is a former Chairman of the Chemical Distribution Institute. Paul is a British national, educated in the UK, and has lived and worked in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland. "

Folkert joined ICL July 2014 in the global procurement leadership team that was created as part of ICL’s Next Step Forward strategy. This is a period where ICL moves from decentralized self-governing entities to the creation of One ICL with global functions of IT and Procurement, the set-up of Shared Service Centers and migrating all business to one single ERP platform. In his role as VP Global Logistics Procurement, Folkert challenge is to build a logistics procurement department covering the sourcing of logistics services and packaging materials on a global basis, smoothly take over spend from all the different entities and in the mean team deliver lower costs while improving the service to the internal business partners and customers. From his broad business experience in the (petro) chemical field where next to several supply chain roles he has held positions in procurement, marketing and sales, Folkert can combine his business insight and understanding of supply chain developments to create successful procurement strategies.

As the Europe Head of Supply Chain Management Industrial Petrochemicals The main responsibilities of me and my team are production planning (long-, mid- and shotterm), Verbund optimization, logistic concepts and optimization, material management and process optimization Over the past 6 months, Stefan considers his greatest success to be managing the Verbund and ensuring a high delivery reliability for our customers in several crisis situations. Stefan considers his greatest challenge over the past 6 months to be increasing team capabilities and balancing operational topics/trouble shooting and tactical/strategic optimization.

Bharath partners with senior supply chain executives across all business sectors of Merck KGaA to identify opportunities to drive best-in-class performance through advanced statistics, data mining, rich visualization and new technologies. He also leads digital transformation of the Merck supply chain using big data, cloud and mobility and works on the supply chain control tower at Merck.

Within Henkel, Thorsten is responsible in the business unit beauty care for SC Operations in WEU and covers areas in: Customer Service, Sales forecasting and Supply Chain planning, Logistic operations / market distribution. His successes in past 12 months include the Implementation several supply chain processes and systems. the include the implementation of ""One Global Supply Chain"" within Henkel which combines all supply chain and purchasing activities under one Roof. Thorsten was also responsible for the implementation of a global transport management system. Thorsten considers his most recent challenges to include the bridge between supply chain and business as separated stakeholders, and the constant balancing of business requirements vs. Supply Chain needs.

Frank is a Partner in the Advisory Services service line. He is leading the chemical industry sector in Germany, Suisse and Austria. As a former leader of Strategy & Operations in GSA Frank has over 20 years of extensive expertise in Supply Chain Process Modeling & Design, Organizational Change Management, Business Improvement Initiatives and Transformational Excellence. Frank was founder and CEO of J&M Management Consulting AG a Hidden Champion in Supply Chain and Value Chain consulting in Europe.

Clariant is a process Oriented company . As global process owner of Order-to-Cash, Guillermo is a Member of the Global Business Services Management committee. In this organization he is responsible for the set of business processes that involve receiving and fulfilling Clariant´s customer requests for goods or services. The main processes covered in the Order-to-Cash area are Credit Management, Order & Contract, Order Fulfillment, Distribution Network design, Operational Transfer Price Management, Transport Planning, Transport Execution, Customer Invoicing, Accounts Receivables, Cash collection and assignment as well as Customer Care topics related to the process such as claim handling. He is also Global Head of Logistic Services. His biggest successes in the past 6 months have included the expansion of Order-to-Cash's scope in their shared service centers India and Poland to include logistics activities in several regions and order management for selected business units in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and India. Alongside that Clariant are working to accelerate productivity in OtC for finance-related services that since last year are in the full responsibility of Clariant's shared service centers. Other successes include the opening of the SSC in Greater China, which is a new market for our Global Business Service organization and where now have a brand new shared services center focusing on Order-to-Cash and Source-to-Pay activities. Order-to-Cash remains one of the most critical processes given the direct exposure to customer interactions. Overcoming this has been the greatest challenge for the past six months.

Cordstrap is the world leader in the protection of cargo in transit. Our mission is to keep cargo safe – by providing solutions that ensure our customers’ products are secure on rail, sea, road and air. With five international manufacturing locations and operations in over 50 countries worldwide, Cordstrap combines an innovative product suite tailored to the needs of the chemical industry with a collaborative approach and the best quality training, application expertise and legislative insights. Delivering a highly tailored solution that provides the security of physical insurance; driven by a deep understanding of all implications that the transportation of goods has for an international business. Cordstrap not only keeps the world’s cargo safe by converting the logistics and transportation markets to better, safer and more innovative solutions, but also helps customers to further their global reach. Many of the world’s leading multi-national chemical companies trust Cordstrap to secure their cargo, with CTU code compliant and AAR approved solutions for all global shipping challenges.

Jürgen Rachor is a Senior Expert of the Supply Chain Management practice at McKinsey & Company based in the Frankfurt office. He joined McKinsey in 2009. His work's focus is especially on supply chain transformations, end-to-end supply chain planning, and Supply Chain 4.0. Jürgen has been focusing mainly on Chemicals, Oil & Gas and Basic Materials. He is part of the leadership team of the Supply Chain Management practice and leads the Supply Chain Management in Chemicals service line. On top, Jürgen is leading our Supply Chain 4.0 initiative, and hosting our Supply Chain Executive Academy.

Join an expedition with Cathy O’Dowd as she shares her stories about leading teams and executing plans in high-risk, high-stress environments, while striving for big goals. Learn why plans fail and how teams crumble, and discover the key tools that ensure you will get to the top. Reaching New Heights draws on the lessons Cathy O’Dowd learnt from her first Everest expedition. With the focus on finances and logistics, the dynamic of the team was ignored. The team collapsed into conflict from the first day, and three members resigned before even reaching the foot of Everest. Cathy and her team-mates discovered that there are key obstacles that have nothing to do with the mountain, but there are also overlooked tools that allow the successful 25% to triumph. Cathy O’Dowd is the first woman to climb Mount Everest from both sides. She is an internationally recognised mountaineer and motivational speaker, orginally from South Africa but now living in Andorra. For more information http://cathyodowd.com, Twitter @CathyODowd, Instagram @Cathy_ODowd

Iveta leads the Center of Supply Chain Expertise by Covestro, a team of program and project managers and process owners. Together with operations and other functions within and beyond Covestro Iveta aims to enable smooth supply chains and deliver the best results for Covestro's customers and the company. Her team won with thier Lean Transformation in Supply Chain the Covestro 2016 Overall I-C-E Award. The I-C-E stands for innovation, costs and efficiency. Her biggest challenge is driving change fast enough to engage everyone along the end-to-end supply chains in continual improvement and process excellence to deliver results which matter.

As the Head of Supply Chain for Smit & Zoon, Arnaud is responsible for Supply Chain Excellence at Clariant. He is responsible for driving continuous performance improvement across the end-to-end supply chain for all 7 business units globally, bringing supply chain innovations into our company and providing in-house consulting solutions to the business units In this role, Arnaud's biggest success over the past 6 months has been significant cash generation from improved end-to-end planning and inventory management. His greatest challenge over the past 6 months, has been in breaking functional silos.

As Head of Supply Chain Excellence at Clariant, Christian is responsible for driving continuous performance improvement across the end-to-end supply chain for all 7 business units globally, bringing supply chain innovations into our company and providing in-house consulting solutions to the business units. Over the past 6 months, Christian counts significant cash generation from improved end-to-end planning and inventory management as being his biggest success. By contrast, Christian counts his greatest challenge over the past 6 months to be breaking functional silos

Wolfgang is leads the global Supply Chain organization of Perstorp which includes Planning, Logistics, Procurement and Customer Service. In that function I report directly to the CEO. Most recently, Wolfgang considers his greatest success to be the implementation of a global Procurement Category organization with a spend of 1bn US $ and the transformation towards an Integrated Business Planning approach coming from a traditional S&OP style. His biggest challenge is that expectations from customers are frequently increasing and requests are adhoc without the willingness to pay either for sustainability, differentiated services or quality so prices and margins are being commoditized.

As Logistics Supplier Relationship Management Leader for EMEA, I am responsible to drive value out of the logistics contracts. This not only by controlling the agreed performance but also looking together, as partners, towards value creation. By a team of 10 SME we achieve this additional value through open communication with our carriers and internal customers. All of this with the intend to align on understanding and advancing the logistics operations by optimization (service improving and/or cost reduction) of the existing flows. I consider my latest success as the creation of a bridge between procurement and the customer service organisations across DuPont. By creating a scorecard tool (and process) that gives immediate view of DuPont’s supplier experience on 4 points: the supplier performance (KPI’s), buyers vision on partnership, received data quality & the internal customer’s experiences. By this monthly exercise, our logistics department can push the suppliers in understanding where we as a company need them to be. But also, improve the customer experience in a rigid procurement process.

Tobias is the Head of Supply Chain Management at ARLANXEO's Chloropren and EVM businesses. With his recently formed SCM team, he drives the change towards higher SCM maturity and process improvements in all SCM-related areas. Currently, his focus lies delivering high performance in day-to-day business as well as on the following improvement initiatives: Implementing integrated Supply Chain Planning, linking OtC to S&OP and Lean Production Planning.

Maarten Cornelissen is currently Supply Chain Manager at Teijin Aramid B.V. Owner of McLogVision B.V., management consultancy and Advisor to the Board for Royal Ahrend N.V., having previously been their Chief Supply Chain Officer. Maarten started his career at Whirlpool, where he spend 17 years working from the Netherlands, Italy and Germany before joining LG Electronics as VP Services in 2009. He has worked nearly 20 years in senior European management positions in Supply Chain, Operations and Customer Service. Building on his extensive experience with Customer and Supply Chain, Maarten’s aim is to lead and coach management teams on supply chain leadership to become truly customer led, integral managed supply chain organizations.

Henning is the Senior Manager Supply Chain and Logistics at Sumitomo Chemical Europe SA/NV in Machelen/Brussels for EMEA. He is a interdisciplinary supply chain and marketing executive with experience in inter-cultural business environment in the chemical and process industries. In addition he lectures at Saxion High School, a MBA course for Intercompany Value Chain Optimisation to share experiences learnt in business life with interested students to encourage them to "think out of the box" and apply change management tools in SCM projects. Henning has 20 years of different international positions at BP Chemicals International in M&A, supply chain and marketing in chemicals and polymers. In the past 6 months, Henning's greatest achievement has been the implementation of completely different existing and reliable logistic flows involving 3-4 parties in a trustful collaboration. This was implemented to good effect despite being outside factors necessitating rapid implementation and identification. His greatest challenge in the past 6 months has been implementing further innovations in supply chain and logistics in response to continuous and rapid globalization.

Tim is the Head of Supply Chain at Archroma. His main responsibilities are to create robust supply chains that support the business strategies quickly. His most recent successes including having to have designed and implemented a global S&OP process and to have fundamentally redesigned Archroma's global supply chain network within 2 years. His biggest challenge of late was to lead a major change in programme in the supply change at the same time (re)defining the way that Archroma does business.

As head of Order Management Ralf's main responsibility is to safeguard Covestro’s ability to offer a smooth ordering process to our customers in the EMEA region. Together with his team, he strives for a continuing increase in order handling efficiency so that customers can benefit tomorrow from a service even faster, more precise and more reliable than today’s. Development of Covestro’s e-ordering offer to customers plays an important role in this circumstance and it is also part of his responsibility to contribute to that. The biggest successes of last half year deal with milestones in OtC process standardization and description of workload in Order Management, both improve our ability to steer the quality of the services offered in Order Management. Ralf considers his biggest challenge to be providing a good balance the wish for process excellence in Order Management with customer proximity and the value of individuality in customer contact.

Florian is Head of Global Supply Chain Supply and a member of the Supply Chain Strategy Development team, which acts as a center of supply chain excellence within BASF. As part of the division Supply Chain Operations & Information Services the team enable BASF business units to develop a strategic, end-to-end view towards supply chain management. The team set directions for strategic supply chain management to generate a competitive advantage - based on BASF-proven methodologies, innovative tools & concepts. There is also a large focus on future supply chain trends, innovation scouting and global knowledge sharing. BASF has been ranked very well in numerous supply chain rankings this year. In Gartner’s 2016 SC ranking we are the only German company in the top 20. In addition, Gartner ranked BASF #7 in Europe, and first in the Chemicals industry! BASF have also been awarded the “Supply Chains to Admire” Award by SC Insights this year. These achievements, along with BASF's continued dedication to customer satisfaction and resulting progress in the area of innovation, segmentation and smart supply chain solutions can be considered to be the biggest achievement over the last year. The Supply Chain Development Strategy teams corporate purpose has been to "create chemistry for a sustainable future" This is carried out by pursuing ambitious goals along the entire value chain, In this way, the team aim for profitable growth while keeping the balance between differentiation and standardization and taking on social and environmental responsibility at the same time.

As Head of Global Logistics at Syngenta, Marion has responsibilities in supporting and leading change, working with leadership teams to create their change journey, identification and implementation of management systems as well as auditing for continuous improvement.

Ankur is Head of Strategy with DCM Shriram Limited, a leading chemicals conglomerate in India. He is responsible for formulating the global strategy for the group along with devising road map for process improvement and supply chain integration. Ankur brings along over 10 years of experience in Chemicals and Life Sciences Industry and have worked as strategy lead and a management consultant in designing, leading, and implementing broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. His focus area has been growth realignment and supply chain integration in India and Asia Pacific.

As Manager for Supply Chain & General Affairs, Lars takes end responsibility for Tosoh’s Supply Chain Division and General Affairs Division. The responsibilities for supply chain include Logistics (Warehousing & Distribution), Supply and Demand Control (Forecasting, Inventory Planning, Production Planning, Value Added Logistics and Procurement), Customer Quality Management (Customer Service and QA) and Trade Compliance (Customs & VAT). The General Affairs Division takes care of amongst others legal matters, real estate, travel management and facility management. Over the past half a year, the implementation of an Internal Compliance Programme (ICP) can be considered to be the biggest success. Meanwhile, the biggest challenge over the past 6 months can be considered to be the organizations’ P&L responsibility as it can be a real limitation with respect to an end-to-end supply chain approach.

Vincenzo has headed several departments, such as procurement, road and sea bulk logistics, and the production planning of all plants and business for Versalis. He has integrated these responsibilities with the processes of econometrics of the production models with a proxy to maximizing the Gross Contribution Margin. He has managed the IT projects aimed at centralizing the logistic processes in Versalis spa achieving certified results compliant with saving over 40 M€/year in the last seven years on logistic costs, and introducing the concept of systematic optimization of the integrated Gross Contribution Margin among various businesses working on 70% of variable costs in Versalis and 100% of revenues. "

Maximo is a member of the P&G Global Supply Network Innovation Center since March 2012 and focuses his work towards the materialization of the “Physical Internet” vision. Recently led the Modulushca project, a European logistics innovation funded project by the EC aimed to develop a set of Standard Reusable Containers to enable the creation of a “Physical Internet”. This project has been a key milestone in order to drive awareness about the convenience to drive global industry standardization for Reusable Intermediate Containers (RICs). Innovation breaks the status quo of things, challenge paradigms, due to a healthy dissatisfaction with things as they are. Drive change is always challenging but rewarding.

Peter is Managing Director at ECTA, the European Chemical Transport Associaion. After a Supply Chain career of more than 25 years at Monsanto in different leading supply chain functions and disciplines, Peter Devos has re-positioned himself as an independent Supply Chain Practitioner focusing to further improve the Chemical logistics processes and this together with all stakeholders across the Chemical supply chain. With his strong collaborative, analytical and digital mindset, Peter has a proven track record in Operational Excellence, Supply Chain project management, lean, continuous improvement and realized several breakthrough planning & logistics innovations across the Chemical, Pharma & Agro divisions at Monsanto. One of his strengths is to bridge Strategic drivers with Operational practices in a very pragmatic way. Peter holds a AgroEngineer Master from the University of Louvain and has a second master in Industrial and Business Management which gives him the right background to understand what matters in Chemicals, Responsible Care, Sustainability & Process Efficiency. His historical passion for logistics brought him to his new Managing Director role at ECTA, an organization that connects the chemical transport and logistics stakeholders.

Michael is responsible for Enterprise Logistics at the corresponding chair at TU Dortmund University and at the department with the same name at Fraunhofer IML. The main topics are Supply Chain Management and Management of Industrie 4.0. His biggest success in the last months was the establishment of Kompetenzzentrum Mittelstand 4.0 and his biggest challenge is bridging the gap between “old economy” and digital natives and start-ups.

Professor Juwet is the coordinator of masters of electromechanical engineering technology within KULeuven and coordinator of research in domain “supply chain technology”. Recent successes have included the development of an electrical van for urban distribution including market introduction. Professor Juwet considers his greatest challenge to be in the Select offers for industrial cooperation.

Within ECTA the main responsibility as for Andreas as President is to coordinate the ECTA Board and to represent ECTA. In hiod job as Director in LKW WALTER one of his major tasks is the Key Account Management for the Chemical Industry. His biggest success over the past months is at the same time the challenge for the future; to make distribution of Chemical Products on European Roads safer.

Peter Förster studied industrial engineering in Kempten/Neu-Ulm and Ulm with a strong focus on Marketing. Following graduation he joined Siemens ICN Information and Communications Networks as a Junior Marketing Consultant, at the same time working to set up TRANSPOREON GmbH with friends from his time at university. The company was founded in the year 2000. As Managing Director, Förster focuses primarily on product and innovation management.

Howard is Commercial Director for Agility Chemicals with responsibility for the development and implementation of collaborative customer solutions as an integrated logistics service provider. He has over 18 years of logistics experience that started with the international chemicals manufacturer ICI, before transitioning to Agility. At Agility his functional experience and senior management positions have spanned Procurement, Operations, Account Management and all modes attached to Land and Ocean freight.

Heiko is the head of group “processes” of the Fraunhofer Center for Applied Research on Supply Chain Services SCS with focus on benchmarking and process management for logistics and wholesalers since 2011. Through various research and industrial projects at Fraunhofer SCS since 2002 he acquired expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods of process analysis, porcess visualization and design. The method of benchmarking has become his core area. Within the Benchmarking Center he runs benchmarking programms and working groups. The Freight Benchmarking Group of the European Chemical Industry was established in 2005 and currently comprises over 10 leading chemicals manufacturers.

Following a stretch of 10 years of experience in the food industry at Stoeffler Company, started in the Manufacturing area, then switching to Supply Chain manager position, Fabrice Schneider had moved to the Chemicals industry joining the Millipore Company in 2006 as Labwater Supply Chain Manager. After Millipore got acquired by Merck Company in 2010, he got in charge of the harmonization and development of Supply Chain end to end processes for the Merck Millipore Division. He’s now Head of End to End Order to Deliver processes for the new born Merck Life Science Division, since the acquisition of Siagma Aldrich in 2016.

Hans-Jörg Bertschi started his career in 1983 as a Business Logistics Manager at Digital Equipment (Europe) in Geneva. In 1987, Hans-Jörg became a co-owner and member of the Executive Board of the Bertschi Group, and was later promoted to CEO and Chairman of the Board in 1994. Under his leadership, the company has developed from a mid-sized European transport company, with 200 employees, into a leading global Chemical Logistics Service that has over 2,500 employees in more than 35 countries; with a major focus on modal shift from road to rail and waterways. In 1987, he was appointed member of the Board of HUPAC AG, Chiasso and has been its President since 1995, which is now today’s market leading inter-modal rail service provider in Europe. He is also member of the Executive Committee of EPCA (European Petrochemical Association) of the Board of ECTA (European Chemical Transport Association).

Michiel is globally responsible for all transport, warehouses, and logistic operations of Ravago. (5MM MT of Plastics, Rubbers & Chemicals: over €400 MM expenditures). His biggest success in the past 6 months was the realisation of new logistic hub in Baytown, TX ($90MM in CAPEX. Envisioned start-up: Q3 2017). This facility will serve Ravago’s domestic & increasing export business out of USA. It will enable Ravago to capture additional commercial opportunities, linked to the strong increases plastics’ production capacity in North America.

Ernst Beer started his professional career as a chemist 1995 at Bayer in Dormagen. In 1998 he moved to Wacker Chemie and hold several positions in Marketing and Supply Chain. During last years he was Heading two Global Downstream Supply Chains. Since beginning of 2016 he is globally responsible for Productmanagement and Planning of Basic Silicone Materials.

Robert has 31 Years of International Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience in Pharmaceutical / Life Sciences Companies such as Eli Lilly, Wyeth / American Cyanamid, Schering-Plough Corporation, Kendle Inc. ( a Contract Research Organization ) , Varian Scientific Instruments and Oracle Life Sciences. 

Robert is active in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing solutions, Authentication and End-to-End Traceability of Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Trials Supplies as well as e-Prescribing, Compliance and Pharmacovigilance.

Kirsa Dyrehave (MSc in Engineering) is Senior CI Manager at H.Lundbeck A/S. In this role she helps shape Lundbeck’s Operational Excellence efforts and support the drive across the business to continuously improve manufacturing and supply excellence. Kirsa has had various positions within H.Lundbeck A/S during the last 17 years. Since 2012 she has been Senior CI Manager heading Operational Excellence efforts for the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facilities within Lundbeck. H. Lundbeck A/S is an international pharmaceutical company highly committed to improving the quality of life for people suffering from central nervous system disorders. Lundbeck embraced the start of a lean journey in 2006. Increased employee motivation has resulted in higher flexibility and best-in-industry supply reliability, additionally a reduction of 30% in cost of sales was achieved. In 2012, Lundbeck was the first European company and even the first pharma company globally to be recognized with a Shingo Silver Medallion.

Mike Skinner is Vice President at CLX Logistics. He is responsible for strategic development, marketing and deployment of CLX Logistics technology-based solutions and services. Mr. Skinner leverages his experience in supply-chain consulting, information systems and operations management to help shippers design and deploy world class technology solutions in their efforts to reduce costs and improve service.

Chemical Engineer from the Brussels Free University. Occupied different manufacturing positions in Chemical companies in Europe and the US. Joined Total in 2005, as Transport Safety Manager for the worldwide Petrochemicals Business Units. In 2010 moved to Logistic manager for Total Petrochemicals. Since 2014 global Logistic Manager for Refining and Base Chemicals European Business Units. In addition to representing Total in Logistic committee at CEFIC, EPCA, UIC and Essenscia , acting as Chairman of the Rail committee for the European Shippers Council.

Cindy Jooren leads the Center of Excellence for Supply Chain in Europe and Asia at Eastman Chemical Company. The Center of Excellence has teams of professionals providing project leadership, knowledge of business processes and IT solutions as well as supply chain analytics to improve, run and grow the businesses. The functional areas of the Center of Excellence for supply chain are Order Management, Global Material Flow (including Sales & Operations Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Stock Transfer) and Logistics. Cindy holds a Master’s Degree from Nyenrode Business University and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. Cindy joined Eastman in 2010 as Supply Manager, Adhesives. Prior to joining Eastman, she held various management and engineering positions with companies in the chemical sector. Biggest challenges for Cindy this year are to create consistent value for the Supply Chain, keep on being aligned with their vision and with the business strategies and at the same time working further with the teams on the successful transformation of Center of Excellence which was initiated last year: from functional focus to activity focus to better support the diverse business strategies and to be able to bring more innovative solutions. 

Eastman is a global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With a portfolio of specialty businesses, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability.