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2009 Conference Speakers

PepsiCo
Tim Carey,
Director of Sustainability & Technology
 Tim Carey is the Director for Sustainability and Technology at PepsiCo in Chicago and is responsible for developing PepsiCo Chicago’s sustainability vision and strategy and ensuring that the businesses continuously improve.  Tim’s team also constructs new manufacturing facilities and recently completed the two largest LEED Gold certified food and beverage plants in the world.  Tim is the former Vice-Chair of USGBC’s Colorado Chapter and has developed and implemented social and environmental sustainability initiatives and programs for more than 20 years at Hewlett Packard and Warren Buffet’s building materials company before coming to PepsiCo. 

Riders for Health
Andrea Coleman, Chief Executive Officer
Andrea Coleman co-founded Riders with Barry Coleman in 1989. As an ex motorcycle-racer and operations director for Team Castrol-Herron, Andrea used her long experience and knowledge of the motorcycling community to devise an innovative, entrepreneurial fundraising strategy to support the development of Riders field programmes. Fundraising methods included the creation of a helmet-parking bus, competitors’ memorabilia auctions and large-scale participatory events to build the unrestricted funding necessary for the organisation’s survival and development. Andrea has guided the financial/funding development of Riders and it was awarded the ‘Charity of the Year’ title by Charity Finance magazine for ‘excellence in financial management’ (2001-2). In 2002 Riders won funding in the World Bank ‘Development Marketplace’ competition and in 2004 Andrea won the Sage business award in partnership with the Daily Telegraph for best leader of a small business. Andrea is a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.

Riders for Health
Barry Coleman, Executive Director
Riders co-founder Barry Coleman has 18 years’ experience in developing sustainable and sustained systems for managing all modes of land transport in difficult or hostile conditions. Working closely with African colleagues, he has established long-running programmes in Zimbabwe, Gambia, Nigeria, Lesotho and Kenya working with ministries of health, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector. Designer of the ground-breaking Transport Resource Management (TRM) and the associated Riders’ cost per kilometre (CPK) calculation system. He is a former journalist (The Guardian, BBC) and has several years’ experience in management consultancy specialising in corporate communications.

Intuit, Inc.
Craig Cuffie, Vice President of
Supply Chain Operations
In this role, Craig Cuffie is responsible for all end-to-end supply chain activities that deliver Intuit's products and services to retailers and direct to end customers. These activities include planning, procurement, order management, manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution, and logistics. Craig has held a number of business line and leadership roles during his time at Intuit, most recently as vice president of global operations for service and technical support. Prior to joining  Intuit in 2003, Craig spent 18 years in aerospace and high technology industries with Quantum, Inc., Lam Research, Inc. and United Technologies Corporation, where he held a variety of management positions in Business Development, Program and Project Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and General Management. Craig earned his Masters degree in management from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute and is a member of the Stanford Supply Chain Forum, Black Executive Supplier Management Forum and the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Brian Glazebrook, Senior Manager,
Supply Chain Social Responsibility
Brian joined Cisco in 2006 to create the company's program managing the environmental, labor, health, safety and ethical performance of its suppliers. In this role, Brian represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and on the Supply Chain Working Group for the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), two industry collaborations focusing on social responsibility in the IT and electronics sectors. Brian is also a work group lead for the GHG Protocol's Product and Supply Chain Accounting and Reporting standard. He is a recognized expert on Life Cycle Assessment and worked with a number of Fortune 500 firms on design for environment, life cycle management, green buildings, climate change and sustainability reporting projects.

Hewlett-Packard
Judy Glazer, Director for Global Social and Environmental, Responsibility Operations
Judy Glazer’s role at HP is to drive programs that implement SER policy into HP’s products and supply chain, from design and materials through manufacturing, distribution and end-of-life. This charter includes HP’s programs to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of HP’s ~$50B supply chain and implementation of HP’s supply chain code of conduct. Glazer joined Hewlett-Packard in 1989 and has held a variety of supply chain and engineering roles.

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Kevin Harrington, Vice President, Global Business Operations, Customer Value Chain Management
 Kevin is responsible for core, cross-functional supply chain functions, including strategic planning, risk management, compliance, leadership development, business intelligence, strategic communications, acquisition integration, organizational change management, global capability and market intelligence. He also oversees Cisco's green initiatives, social responsibility and collaboration programs as well as the integration of these efforts across Cisco’s extended supply chain. Kevin’s 20-year career spans five different industries; including networking and telecommunications, mission critical computing platforms, software, precision manufacturing capital equipment, and financial services. Prior to joining Cisco, Kevin was President and COO of Centegy Corporation, Vice President of Operations at Satmetrix Systems, and Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Micro Optics Design Corporation. Earlier in his career he led the North American Service organization at Amdahl Corporation.

The Dow Chemical Company
David E. Kepler, Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, Chief Information Officer,
Corporate Director of Shared Services
In his Shared Services leadership capacity, D. E. (Dave) Kepler has global responsibility for functions including Customer Service; Information Systems; Purchasing; Six Sigma; Supply Chain; Work Process Improvement; and Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S). As CSO, Kepler is responsible for guiding the sustainable business development of the company and is charged with leading the company’s commitment to Set the Standard for Sustainability, including achieving the company's aggressive 2015 Sustainability Goals. He is a member of Dow's Management Committee and chairs its Sustainability Committee. In addition, Kepler chairs the Corporate Environmental Advisory Council (CEAC), an organization formed to provide an outside-in perspective on sustainability to Dow. As CIO, Kepler has been in the forefront of information technology deployment in the industry. He is a recognized leader in the area of cyber security, providing advice and guidance across industry and government.

Stanford University
Hau Lee, Director, Global Supply Chain Management Forum and Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Business School
Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners. Lee obtained his BSocSc in economics and statistics from the University of Hong Kong, his MSc in operational research from the London School of Economics, and his MS and PhD degrees in operations research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Safeway, Inc.
Linda Nordgren, Group Vice President Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing and Operations
Linda Nordgren is the Group Vice President for Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Strategies for Safeway Inc. In this role she is responsible for all Global Strategic Sourcing of raw materials, packaging, finished goods for Safeway’s 33 Manufacturing Plants and the Supply Chain Performance of Safeway’s supply chain network of 1800 retail stores and 14 distribution centers. She has been with Safeway for 20 years holding several Marketing Director positions including Systems, Business Processes, B2B and Supply Chain.

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Erica Plambeck, Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Spence Faculty Scholar, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability. Erica Plambeck teaches the MBA core course in Operations Management and an elective, Environmental Entrepreneurship, that draws together MBAs and graduate students from across the Stanford campus. Erica received the Presidential Early Career Award for research in supply chain management, and was recognized as a Faculty Pioneer in social and environmental stewardship by WRI and the Aspen Institute. Erica grew up in the Midwest, received a BS in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, developed decision-models for EU climate change policy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, and received her PhD in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University.

Verité
Dan Viederman, Executive Director
Since becoming Executive Director of Verité in 2004, Dan Viederman has led the expansion of global capacity and the establishment of partnerships with NGOs around the world. Under Dan’s leadership, Verité has become a recognized source for thoughtful commentary on the impacts of globalization on workers around the world. For his work with Verité he was named 2007 winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. His career with Verité begain in 2001 as Director of Research, where he designed the first-ever effort to incorporate labor risk into institutional investment for CalPERS. Dan was previously CEO of the China Program for WWF-World Wildlife Fund, where he established the Beijing office for the first international environmental NGO in China. Prior to working with WWF, Dan led development and relief efforts in China and Indonesia for Catholic Relief Services, working with local governments, private sector institutions and NGOs. Dan serves on the Boards of Clean Air-Cool Planet and Dwight Hall at Yale.

Intel Corporation
Steve Viera
Supplier Corporate Responsibility Manager
Steve has spent twenty five years at Intel Corporation in the Supply Chain with Manager Assignments in manufacturing (Fab and Assembly/Test), site MRO, capital equipment, construction, warehousing, information systems, new product introduction, and Risk Prevention & Controls, International sites, and operations management.   As Intel’s current Supplier Corporate Responsibility Manager his responsibilities have him involved with Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Green efforts (via the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition), worldwide benchmarking, market intelligence, strategic planning, and general purchasing policies and procedures.  

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Larry Wilk, Vice President, Worldwide Operations
He is currently responsible for optimization of the global supply chain at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. This includes replication and distribution for over 300 million DVD’s per year in 15 territories. His team works with each territory operation to share best practices, implement common processes and systems, and drive major project implementations. He is leading Environmental initiatives for the division, and for the home entertainment industry as the DEG Green Ambassador. Larry joined Disney in 1987, as part of the Disney Store startup team. Over the next eight years, he helped grow the stores from 1 to 350 stores, leading distribution, planning, and systems in the North America followed by international development in Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Next, for six years he led Process Improvement at Disneyland, helping to revitalize and expand the Resort with initiatives in merchandising & distribution, systems, call centers, and Resort Development.  After that he was part of the team creating Hong Kong Disneyland, where he was responsible for Logistics & Operations Services (Distribution, Costuming, Custodial, and Outsourcing) & Operations Development. Next, building on his experience in Hong Kong, he led the development of the company’s Low Cost Country Sourcing strategy, while part of Corporate Strategic Sourcing & Procurement.