Guest Authors
Tim Minahan - Senior Vice President, Marketing at Procuri
As senior vice president of Marketing for Procuri, Tim Minahan works closely with the executive leadership team in shaping the strategic direction of the company’s growth and oversees all global marketing activities. Full Biog | Contributions
Haydn P. Jones - Consultant at A. T. Kearney
Haydn P. Jones is a consultant with A. T. Kearney, and a former regional Head of Procurement for Deutsche Bank. He has over 10 years of industry and consulting experience within Banking, Government and Law and specialises in strategic cost management, procure-to-pay processing, procurement outsourcing and procurement transformation. Full Biog | Contributions
Christopher Barrat - Greystone Partnership
Christopher Barrat is one of the leading thinkers, writers and speakers on purchasing. He has seen the world of purchasing both from within, as a purchasing director with ICI, and from without, as a sales and business manager. Full Biog | Contributions
Jai Shekhawat - CEO and CoFounder of Fieldglass
Jai Shekhawat has more than 18 years of experience with software development, information technology and management consulting. He is presently the CEO of Fieldglass, a leading provider of software solutions to help large firms manage their spend on a variety of business services such as contingent labor and outsourced projects. Full Biog | Contributions
Martin Berr-Sorokin is Managing Director at Xcitec GmbH
Martin Berr-Sorokin is Managing Director at Xcitec GmbH, a market leader in software solutions for strategic purchasing. With over a decade of international experience in strategic and operative purchasing he is among the leading innovators for SRM and supplier management. Full Biog | Contributions
Jules Goffre is Leader of the European Supply Management practice at A.T. Kearney
Jules has held this position at A.T. Kearney since 2002, and has led, managed and executed numerous strategic sourcing and procurement transformation projects, resulting in time-to-market, cost reduction and service level improvement for clients across a number of industries. Full Biog | Contributions
David Downs is a principal consultant at Equaterra incorporating Morgan Chambers
David joined Morgan Chambers in February 2000 and since that time he has worked across Europe providing advice to organisations throughout the complete Sourcing lifecycle. David is an expert in implementing and securing benefit form Outsourcing relationships with particular focus on supporting organisations in building robust contractual relationships aligned to business objectives the and is the head of the European Leaders in Procurement Outsourcing knowledge group. Full Biog | Contributions
Richard Edwards is the news editor of European Leaders in Procurement.
A business journalist, he is a regular contributor to a number of leading UK newspapers and magazines, including The Times and Sunday Express. Full Biog | Contributions
Jemima Fitzgerald - Equaterra incorporating Morgan Chambers
Jemima Fitzgerald is an experienced Outsourcing professional with a focus on the development of the Sourcing industry. Jemima joined European outsourcing specialists Morgan Chambers in early 2005 to provide strategic marketing, brand development and market research across the company. Full Biog | Contributions
Adrian Finn - eSourcing Solutions
Adrian has nearly 20 years experience within Procurement having worked for Unipart, GSK , Deloitte & Touché, and Vodafone. He co-founded eSourcing Solutions in 2003 where he has helped numerous organisations implement various eSourcing programmes. He has recently begun to promote a range of next generation eLearning/ knowledge content to support eSourcing initiatives. Full Biog | Contributions
Malcolm Swallow - Country Manager at Equaterra incorporating Morgan Chambers
Malcolm is a highly experienced Senior IT Manager and IT Consultant, specialising in helping organisations exploit IT for competitive advantage. He has significant experience running complex, multi-national, matrix organisations. Malcolm has managed P&Ls of more than $70m and teams of in excess of 200 people. Contributions