Adrienne C Palermo
North America Oral Care Supply Network Operations Senior Director

Adrienne Palermo, Senior Director of North America Oral Care Supply Network Operations for Procter & Gamble, is a seasoned Supply Chain Leader. Ms. Palermo has experience across multiple CPG businesses and Supply Chain domain across her 20+ years experience. Ms. Palermo has been a key global leader in Procter and Gamble’s supply chain demand and planning digital transformation recognized by Gartner’s Supply Chain Master designation for the last seven years. Ms. Palermo was recognized by Supply and Demand Chain Executive as a 2019 Inaugural Woman of the Year for her leadership of Procter and Gamble’s Global Supply Chain Citizen Developer Digital Fluency program to create over 1000 global supply chain professionals digital upskilling to create digital solutions in days for the most critical business opportunities.

Accelerating Business Value through Digitally Upskilling Supply Chain Professionals

Jay Koganti
Vice President - Supply Chain COE

Jay Koganti has more than 22 years of experience building and transforming complex Global Supply Chains as a source of strategic and competitive advantage for enterprises. Jay’s Professional expertise includes developing global supply chain strategies and Global SC Operating models. Extensive Enterprise Transformations from strategy to Operationalization. Enterprise Value creation by Breakthrough Process innovations, solving complex Supply Chain problems by leveraging the new breed of Digital Technologies by nurturing the partnerships and Technology incubation. Operational experience in Global Supply Chain Planning, Distribution, Integrated Business Planning, Supply Chain Analytics & Intelligence, and Execution for fortune 100 companies.

Jay has a unique vision of improving Operational efficiencies of Global Supply Chains by building next-generation sustainability and social equity practices at its core. Jay is a Thought leader and Keynote speaker for numerous Global Supply Chain leadership gatherings and a leading voice of advocacy for Digital Transformation and Process Innovation in the Global Supply Chain community.Jay has a BS in Metallurgical Engineering and graduated from Harvard Business School in General Management (GMP), APICS & SAP SCM Certifications, and completed Value Chain Transformation Program at Wharton.

AI Powered Supply Chains – The New Paradigm for Efficient , Equitable and Sustainable future.

Jessica Robledo Garcia
Senior Director, Procter & Gamble – North America Supply Planning and Analytics

Jessica Robledo Garcia has 17 years experience in Supply Network Operations at P&G. She has worked in multiple business units and has divided her career between Cincinnati and Puerto Rico.

She is currently P&G’s North America Supply Planning and Analytics Leader, with responsibility developing capability in digitization and automation, leading the company’s governance and innovation in work process and tools/systems across the areas of service, supply planning and product deployment. She is a leader of the Hispanic Leadership Team for Market Operations and Supply Network Operations, helping drive capability and empowerment opportunities across for the company’s Latin and Hispanic employees in North America.

Previous assignments include packaging manufacturing, enterprise program leadership, supply network planning, and material supply management. She has led impactful supply chain process transformations, including Regulatory Work Processes that have been inducted into the Corporate Quality Hall of fame, she has led supply chain supply planning across P&G’s Beauty, Respiratory and Paper sectors. She has led manufacturing operations to benchmark levels of reliability.

Jessica is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Stephanie Silvestre
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Operations Strategy, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits

Stephanie Silvestre is Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Operations Strategy for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer’s), the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol. In her role, Ms. Silvestre leads Southern Glazer’s Supply Chain & Operations transformational vision and strategy. She also manages the deployment of a fully integrated and streamlined supply chain to provide world-class capabilities for customer and supplier partners with an emphasis on sustainability and value creation.

Ms. Silvestre began her career with Southern Glazer’s in 2011 as Director of Logistics and has since held multiple roles of increasing responsibility within Supply Chain, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain.

Prior to joining Southern Glazer’s, Ms. Silvestre worked for General Electric for five years. She is also an inaugural member of Southern Glazer’s Exceptional Leadership Program, the Company’s flagship leadership development program. Ms. Silvestre graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Engineering.

Jonathon Karelse
CEO, NORTH FIND MANAGEMENT

Jonathon Karelse is the CEO of NorthFind Management, and is a global leader in demand planning, operations, predictive analytics and IBP. He combines extensive experience with the latest best practices to improve supply chain operations, optimally leveraging people, processes and tools.

Jonathon is leading the conversation that Behavioral Economics represents the next big idea for demand planning in most companies. He believes that by understanding the causes of biases and heuristics in planning, organizations can make rapid improvements in real-world performance. As a frequent contributor to the Supply Chain Council of Canada, the Association for Supply Chain Management, and the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), Jonathon tracks trends and directly influences best practices in Demand Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). His work with NorthFind was recognized in 2021 by Supply Chain Brain – Top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners – and by Supply and Demand Chain Executive: Top 100 Supply Chain Projects.

He has been cited for his work on Forecast Value Add (FVA) analysis; the integration of Judgment and Business Intelligence into statistical forecasting; and Conflict Resolution in consensus forecasting. Jonathon is the author of an Amazon #1 Best Seller for his book, “Histories of the Future: Milestones in the Last 100 Years of Business Forecasting” . He is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, a member of the 2019 Management Excellence cohort at Harvard Business School, and is a member of the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council.

Paula Dart
Vice President, Global eCommerce, Diageo

Paula Dart is a 30-year veteran in the food and beverage industry.  For the past two years, she has been at Diageo leading the global eCommerce efforts which have included both the direct-to-consumer and business-to-consumer models. She set up the global eCommerce Center of Excellence setting the 5-year ambition and strategy, creating performance management processes, and building cross-functional capabilities which have led to growth at twice the rate of the industry. Prior to Diageo, most of her career was spent at The Coca-Cola Company where in her last role, she led Global Commercial Leadership within the Corporate Growth Function. Her team was responsible for innovation and transformation across revenue growth management capabilities, new routes to market for portfolio expansion, data and analytics, and technology and digital enablement focused on driving improvements in marketplace execution to generate growth and operational efficiency.

Paula began her career on the agency side working with large multi-national restaurant, retail, and media & entertainment clients.  From there, she joined The Coca-Cola Company where she spent 15 years in a variety of roles in the Coca-Cola North America business unit including shopper and customer marketing, channel marketing, business strategy and development, and category management and operations. 

For the past 9 years, Paula has worked in global roles leading to a keen understanding of broad business and cultural geographic differences and expertise building networks and partnerships for profitable and sustainable growth.

Paula lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband of 29 years and her four children.  She has a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.

Jay A. Senatra
Director of Supply Chain, HNI Corporation

Jay Senatra is the Director of Supply Chain at HNI Corporation, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of supply chain strategies that support customer fulfillment models. He is also responsible for leading the Integrated Supply Chain team in daily execution activities and maintaining the network inventory planning and execution framework.

Jay grew up in Rock Island, Illinois and earned his BA from Western Illinois University. He has a solid background in manufacturing, logistics, finance, and supply chain with large companies such as Roadway Express, Schneider Logistics, and Case New Holland prior to coming to HNI in 2007.

Jay has held multiple distinct roles within the HNI organization ranging from Transportation Engineer to Plant Manager and now as Director of Supply Chain. He has led well over one hundred continuous improvement events and large transformational projects that have delivered improved quality, delivery, member safety, and millions of dollars of cost savings.

Jay enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters. He is an avid hockey fan who also plays hockey recreationally and is at the ice rink 2-3 times per week. Jay is a die-hard Chicago sports fan who supports the Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks.

Jerome Dubois
Vice President Fulfillment Network, Shopify

Jerome is the co-founder and former Co-CEO of 6 River Systems (6RS), a collaborative robotics and software solutions provider for the warehouse industry. With over 25 years of supply chain technology experience, Jerome was also a key early contributor at successful supply chain technology companies Yantra Corporation (now part of IBM) and Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics). While at 6RS, Jerome led all commercial and product activities including marketing, sales, customer success, and product management. Operating as an independent company within Shopify, 6RS is the leading provider of warehouse automation solutions using collaborative mobile robotics, with installs in over 100 warehouses worldwide. In 2019, 6RS was acquired by Shopify, the global commerce technology company. After recently transitioning from his duties at 6RS, Jerome is now responsible for scaling Shopify's logistics offerings as Vice President. Jerome holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering degree from UNH (1996) and graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University with an MBA in Supply Chain and Finance (1998). He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and guest lecturer in supply chain, technology, and entrepreneurship programs..

Bill Good
Vice President of Supply Chain, GE Appliances, USA

Bill Good began his career in manufacturing on an assembly line while working his way through college. His experience sparked his passion and interest in manufacturing as a career, and he set a goal to one day lead manufacturing for a large U.S. company. Over the course of Bill’s 34-year career, he has honed his knowledge of supply chain management through his various roles of increasing responsibility at Tri-Glass, Charbroil, Whirlpool, and now in his dream job as the Vice President of Manufacturing at GE Appliances, a Haier company.

Bill Good began his career in manufacturing on an assembly line while working his way through college. His experience sparked his passion and interest in manufacturing as a career, and he set a goal to one day lead manufacturing for a large U.S. company. Over the course of Bill’s 34-year career, he has honed his knowledge of supply chain management through his various roles of increasing responsibility at Tri-Glass, Charbroil, Whirlpool, and now in his dream job as the Vice President of Manufacturing at GE Appliances, a Haier company.

Bill is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, with expertise in Theory of Constraints, HOSHIN Planning, and the Toyota Production System. He places a high value on employee engagement, building relationships, and leading transformational change.

Currently, Bill and his team are focusing on expanding plant capacity, increasing automation in the supply chain, and implementing new digital tools to create a Zero Distance approach with consumers.

Jeffrey Whitford
Head of sustainability & social business innovation, MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Jeffrey Whitford serves as the head of sustainability & social business innovation at MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Across a business with more than 26,000 employees and over $10 billion in sales, he is responsible for developing and implementing strategic programs in green chemistry, product recycling, environmental sustainability and social responsibility. When Sigma-Aldrich was acquired by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2015, to become MilliporeSigma, he was named head of corporate responsibility.

In 2020, Fast Company named Whitford among the Most Creative People in Business, and the 2020 PRNEWS CSR & Nonprofit Awards selected him as its Professional of the Year. He was also named a 2022 CSR/ESG Professional of the Year by Ragan & PR Daily and honored as Assent Compliance’s Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders in 2019. His work, in collaboration with his team, has also led to several other accolades for MilliporeSigma’s groundbreaking work in sustainability and CSR.

Whitford earned his bachelor’s in journalism and strategic communications from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and his master’s in business administration at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a board member of MyGreenLab, and has previously served on the board of the International Institute in St. Louis and the St. Louis chapter of JDRF.

Guru Bandekar
Global Vice President, Carrier Global

GURU BANDEKAR is Global Vice President of Supply Chain at Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR) where he is responsible for the Strategic Sourcing, procurement and supply chain for Direct materials, Indirect material, Logistics and Warehousing services since May 2022.

Prior to his current role, Guru was the Chief Supply Chain Officer for Global Tools & Storage business of Stanley Black and Decker (NYSE: SWK). In this role, he was responsible for the development and execution of the manufacturing and distribution strategy and accountable for customer driven end-to-end supply chain for tools and storage and also as the Chief Procurement Officer where he was responsible for procurement of direct material and indirect spend across the enterprise .

He was recently appointed to the Global Board of Directors for the U.S.-India Business Council.

Prior to joining the company, Guru held varying roles in engineering, procurement, finance and product management. He has held increasing roles of responsibility and has extensive experience in product development, procurement, manufacturing and finance at Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) and Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX)

Guru earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from B.A. Technological University in India, a master’s degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo and holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota.

Satish Vadlamani, Ph.D.
Director of BI and Data Science.

Satish Vadlamani is a Director of BI and Data Science at Kenco Logistics Services, Chattanooga, TN ,USA. He earned B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, India. A Masters and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Mississippi State University, USA. Before joining Kenco, Dr. Vadlamani worked at other global supply chain companies like APLL and XPO. Dr. Vadlamani has passion for applying operations research, machine learning (ML) and artificial (AI) intelligence to solve complex supply chain problems. Dr. Vadlamani has seven years of experience applying ML and AI for problem solving. Dr. Vadlamani has published at multiple journals and conferences and teaches data science and analytics to people around the globe. His research interests include networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless ad-hoc networks, supply chain networks, network interdiction, location problems, transportation, and meta-heuristics. Dr. Vadlamani has been an invited speaker at various colleges, universities, and other professional organizations across the globe. He is a member of IEOM, INFORMS and IISE. .

Raul Bujalil
VP Supply Chain Strategy and Enablers, Kroger

Raul is responsible for leading all strategic, transformational, and optimization efforts that support Kroger's existing objectives for growth and profitability within Supply Chain. Raul reports to Gabriel Arreaga, Kroger’s chief supply chain officer. His main responsibilities include leading the expansion of the e-commerce Fulfillment Centers in collaboration with Ocado; optimization and modernization of Distribution Centers network; development of an agile distribution system using industry 4.0 technologies; and creation of an Open Supply Chain Platform supported by a Data Estate that leverage tools and applications that describe, predict, and prescribes, the best ways to operate the supply chain as a competitive advantage.

Raul experience expands across multiple Supply Chain organization within CPG industry.  Prior to Kroger he spent 7yrs at Mondelez International, where he held several leadership roles, including vice president of engineering & supply chain and senior director of engineering.  He led the Supply Chain Transformation efforts for the Latin America and North America business.    Before that, Raul work for over 24yrs at the Procter & Gamble Co. where he lastly served as Director of Engineering leading several major capacity expansion projects including construction and startup of two major manufacturing facilities “greenfield sites” in US and Brazil.

Raul holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City and a Master's in Finance from Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico City.