Results oriented, experienced leader with multifaceted experience across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales & Finance in a distinguished, world-class consumer goods company.

Amy is an accomplished professional with over 25 years of experience in supply chain management and innovation. She is highly regarded for her ability to deliver exceptional results in Product Supply for P&G. Amy excels at inspiring and motivating key decision makers to embrace change within their organizations. By leveraging supply chain data and insights, she efficiently prioritizes work for her teams, allowing them to focus on executing important business strategies and driving necessary changes. Amy's strengths lie in relationship building, persuasive selling, and achieving success in challenging situations. Her expertise spans supply chain strategies and operations, customer collaboration, leadership of large organizations, and innovation management. She has a unique ability to find innovative solutions that lead to victory, making her an invaluable asset. Amy holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas in Austin and actively leads the Texas Channel P&G Recruiting Team. Outside of work, she enjoys home improvement projects, golfing, traveling, and supporting her children's school. Amy resides in Cincinnati, OH, with her husband, two children, and two dogs.

Luis Roman is Head, Global Site & Supply Chain Services for Johnson & Johnson. In this role, he leads several global and Enterprise functions, including Engineering & Property Services, Supply Chain Excellence, Global Transportation, Enterprise Contract Managements, Digital & Data Science, Trade Controls, and Strategic Programs. Under his leadership, these teams strive to deliver continuous improvement of operational and supply chain capabilities, explore partnerships across a diverse network, and drive customer-focused growth and innovation for the future.

Throughout his career at J&J of over 20 years, Luis has held positions of increasing responsibility within Supply Chain across various functions in Manufacturing, Engineering, New Product Introduction and Strategy Development/Deployment and Distribution/Logistics. Prior to his current role, Luis was responsible for the management of Janssen Supply Chain’s global Small Molecule Platform, which included oversight of the global internal and external network, management of critical strategic partnerships, reliability, and continuous improvement. Additionally, he has held multiple roles as Vice President of Janssen’s Partnership and External Supply, and Vice President of Supply Chain within MedTech leading Cardiovascular Care and Specialty Solutions (CSS) and Ethicon with supply chain end-to-end responsibility of finished goods and services for the franchises.

In all prior roles, the organizations delivered a strong track record of improving key operational performance and stabilizing product supply, while delivering enhancements in all phases of the business that have been recognized both internally and externally.

Luis is a strong developer of talent, an advocate for Diversity & Inclusion, and passionate supporter of social justice. Throughout his tenure at J&J, he has been known for his active participation and sponsorship of Employee Relationship Groups HOLA and Open & Out. He is also a member of the Seton Hall University Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times Program Advisory Board. In this advisory role, Luis help shape the Seton Hall Supply Chain graduate curriculum and provides mentorship to graduate students on the changing landscape of pharmaceutical supply chain external manufacturing. Additionally, he is a Board Member for the Pace Center for Girls which is an innovative prevention and intervention program focused on providing an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training, and advocacy.

Luis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and a M.B.A degree from the University of Texas. He is certified as a Six-Sigma Black Belt, Lean Green Belt and in FPX (Flawless Project Execution). Additionally, he is an active member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and American Society of Quality (ASQ). Luis is based in Miami, Florida with his wife, daughter, and son. In his spare time, he enjoys staying active outdoors with crossfit, cycling, and recreational baseball league, in addition to cheering on all his local sports teams.

Karisa Sprague is the Senior Vice President for Walmart US Supply Chain Fulfillment and Reverse Operations. She is responsible for leading the Walmart Fulfillment organization by driving performance, profitability, growth, and innovative technology. Karisa is responsible for the stand-alone Fulfillment Centers and Reverse Operations across Walmart US, all working seamlessly to ensure on-time delivery of products to customers and helping to shape the future of how Walmart serves its stores and customers to provide the best shopping experience.

Karisa began her Walmart career in 2001 as an hourly trainee. She has held multiple positions within Store Operations, including leadership roles at store, region, division, and People roles supporting stores and supply chain. Karisa began her Walmart career as an hourly trainee in 2001.

Karisa serves on Walmart’s Women Officer Caucus. She is an executive advisor for the Walmart Women of Supply Chain. She is one of the founding graduates of Walmart Leadership Academy, a former participant of the CEO’s Key Leadership Program, and Walmart’s Executive Leadership Development Group. She is committed to ongoing mentorship and development of women leaders across the company. Karisa actively sits on the Board of Trustees for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.

Jennifer Springer is Senior Director Customer Fulfillment at Whirlpool Corporation. In this role, she leads a cohesive $1B fulfillment network of over 120 warehouses, a portfolio of global and domestic logistics and trade compliance solutions, a final mile delivery and installation organization, reverse logistics and refurbishment, and a future-forward technology and automation strategy in the United States and Mexico diversified in structure, service level and capabilities tailored uniquely to a range of business units including major appliances and KitchenAid small appliances.

Before joining Whirlpool in January 2022, Jennifer was Senior Director Distribution Center Operations and Logistics for Zebra Technologies where she orchestrated operations for four fulfillment centers located in the US, the Netherlands, Singapore, and China which drove over $4.4B in annual sales revenue. She managed a global transportation portfolio of over $250M, built vision and execution for Zebra’s logistics network strategy, and drove overall supply chain innovation through the Zebra4Zebra program. She began her career with Scanwell Logistics as Business Development and Quality Control Manager.

Jennifer holds an MS in International Trade and Development from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College. She also serves on the Supply Chain Management Advisory Board at Western Michigan University.

Senior Director, Network Supply Chain

Amy Augustine's team is responsible for building the business cases for the corporate strategic projects for U.S. Cellular. She has interest in how 5G technology can transform the future of supply chain. From 2013 until mid-2018, she led the Reverse Logistics team that is responsible for the strategy and execution of the reverse supply chain, including planning, repair of handsets and tablets, and re-commerce of handsets and accessories. Amy has held various roles within supply chain and has worked at U.S. Cellular more than nine years. Earlier in her career, she spent 10 years in the consulting industry working for KPMG, BearingPoint and the Revere Group. Amy earned her MBA in Operations Management and International Business from Loyola University in Chicago and holds a CSCP certification from APICS.

Tony Gariety is the Vice President of Distribution Operations at Carhartt, a clothing manufacturing company that “Builds Clothes to Protect Hardworking People”. With over 30 years of professional experience that includes Omni Channel Business Development, DC Network & Building Design, and numerous roles in Operations Management & Execution.

He graduated from The Georgia Tech Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial Management and was a member of the 1991 Division 1 National Football Champions. In his spare time Tony enjoys woodworking, fishing, and hunting.

In his role, Mike oversees automation strategy, vendors, integration, and system execution on a global scale as part of UPS Healthcare's commitment to clients in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biologics industries, enhancing their quality of life. UPS Healthcare's core focus of "Quality First. Patient Driven" guides his team's efforts to assist Healthcare Logistics Distribution networks in ensuring timely fulfillment throughout the supply chain.

With over 19 years of experience, Mike began his journey in the supply chain industry almost two decades ago as a seasonal hire at UPS, unloading and loading aircraft for the Next Day Air sort. His career then led him through various facets of the supply chain field, including supporting Long-Range Planning at an airline, spearheading location strategies for a Freight Forwarder, and contributing to warehouse design solutions and automation. For the past nine years, Mike has been instrumental in establishing engineering teams to drive automated projects across diverse sectors, from startup ecommerce ventures and multi-client facilities to cross-docking terminals, all the way to developing lights-out warehouse designs.

Mike earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Louisville.

Rochelle Savel is director of Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management for the Emerging Innovations Group. In this role, Savel is responsible for developing optimized supply chains for Corning’s innovations focusing on cash, cost, and customer lead times.

Savel joined Corning in 2018 as business supply director, Global Supply Management, for Optical Connectivity Solutions. She was responsible for partnering with business leadership to deliver exceptional supply chain performance across the division’s global portfolio. In this capacity, Savel had responsibility for the development and execution of strategy for a large volume of third-party spend, including security of supply, sourcing, inventory optimization, and contract negotiations. Additionally, she was instrumental in developing the inaugural Supplier Diversity Program for Optical Communications.

Prior to joining Corning, Savel had 20 years of experience in a variety of roles. From capital project management to operations, she worked within the Energy sector for BP (British Petroleum) and was responsible for driving efficiencies across numerous countries ranging from the United Kingdom to Angola. Savel led numerous transformational efforts such as standardization of complex designs to large-scale SAP implementations. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated her passion for empowering others and creating inclusive leaders and teams. Savel was director of Global Procurement Strategy & Capability at Ingersoll Rand; whose family of brands includes Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Thermo King® and Trane®.

Savel earned a Master of Business Administration from Rice University and holds a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management from Michigan State University. She also completed Corporate Policy and Regulation for Executives from Washington College and Chinese Financial Policy with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (via Rice).

For 5 years, Savel was chair of the North Carolina chapter of Women in Manufacturing, a national association dedicated to inspiring, developing, and promoting women who are pursuing, or have chosen a career, in the manufacturing industry.