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Episode Title:  🇳🇱Are Contact Tracing Apps Here to Stay?🇳🇱

Recorded: 26.05.20

In this newepisode of HeadsTalk Podcast, Elaine Pringle Schwitter is joined by Eric Wesselman, the former Chairman of Sourcing Netherlands. 

He is a leader in Digital Transformation and an expert figure on Robotics and AI technology. Eric talks about government response to Covid-19 and dissect  digital disruptors and Contact tracing Apps in the current climate. 

Sponsored by KPMG Netherlands: https://home.kpmg/nl/

For more about the host of Heads Talk Elaine Pringle Schwitter, check out the first welcome episode and the episode description. 

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Episode Title: 🇩🇪  The 3 Stages of Surviving Through Restructuring🇩🇪

Recorded:  20.05.20

In this episode of Heads Talk, I am  joined by Erik van Haaren, a seasoned digital technology specialist and a business transformation expert.

They focus on the current business climate and how businesses are moving from Panic to Stabilization and on to Growth or what Erik refers to as the 3 Stages of Surviving. Including how businesses are factoring in supply chain risk management and using digitalisation to restructure their operations.

Erik has over 30 years of consulting experience, including 25 years of leadership positions. He is a CEO with clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has been a partner at Deloitte as well as Infosys Consulting, where he embarked on business development in the Nordic region and market introduction in Switzerland. Today, Erik divides his time between his consulting business, being on the board of advisors for Aurelius Enterprise and a Professor of digital transformation at Zigurat Innovation and Technology Business School.


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Episode Title: 🇩🇪Why The Big Players Need to Take Supplier Diversity Seriously 🇩🇪

Recorded: 13.05.20


In this episode of Heads Talk, I discuss with the Group CPO of Accenture, Kai Nowosel, why the big players, now more than ever, really need to be serious about diversification in their supplier arrangements; how they are working with partners to create similar results for them and what the future holds for digitalisation and procurement practices. We will also be discussing how Accenture has achieved it own successes by focusing on supplier diversity and partnerships and why such an endeavor requires a serious topdown endorsement, in their case by Julie Sweet the CEO.

Watch the Inclusion Starts With I video here: https://youtu.be/2g88Ju6nkcg

Sponsored by DOW, the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world https://www.dow.com   

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧 How Corporates Are Likely To Emerge From The Covid-19 Crisis🇬🇧

Recorded 06.05.20

I speak with Tomas Romero, a senior business transformation executive with 20+ years in digital platforms, digital customer experience solutions, corporate operations and business process transformation within industry and management consulting services.

Prior to this, his roles also included the Middle East of Consulting Services for Wipro, COO for Ernst & Young UK and Ireland, Senior Vice President for Global Finance Operation for Marsh & McLennan Companies. His experience ranges from banking to manufacturing, real estate, energy, utilities, media, telecoms, government and much more. He is described as being a charismatic leader with an excellent blend of strategic insight into financial processes as a crisp and forensic view into business processes.  

Sponsored by Wipro https://www.wipro.com/ (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful.

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Episode Title: 🇨🇭 Investor Matchmaking in a Post Covid-19 World🇨🇭

Recorded 28.04.20

Meeting face to face with potential investors has always been the mainstay of funding rounds. But in a world on lockdown where social distancing is a fact of life, can start-ups continue to secure funding AND is it even reasonable to assume that once restrictions will be lifted things will go back to how they used to be? One person who can provide some insights is guest Jean-Pierre Vuillemuier, a giant in the start-up space and a leader in building start-up investment ecosystems in Switzerland. He started Startup Invest in 2003 to bridge the gap between start-ups, investors and corporate. He is the is the visionary behind some of Switzerland's best known and most influential start-up events, including StartupDAYs, Venture DAY and IPO DAY. In this episode we find out how JP thinks the current crisis will affect investment rounds in the future and how their own platforms are pivoting to address the new normal, including their latest virtual matchmaking platform, StartupMATCHER.

Sponsored by Devere Switzerland, part of one of the world’s leading independent financial advisory organisations, with more than $10bn under advice from over 80,000 clients in 100 countries. Visit https://www.devere-switzerland.ch/

To find out more about StartupMATCHER, visit https://www.startupmatcher.ch/

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Recorded: 21.04.20

Episode Title: 🇬🇧Get More Women Owned Businesses in Corporate Supply Chains 🇬🇧

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Join host Elaine Pringle Schwitter and her guest, Executive Director for Europe WEConnect International - Maggie Berry OBE in the first episode of Heads Talk. In this episode, Maggie and Elaine discuss the growing trend for blue chip corporations to partner with women-owned businesses for relevant services, what women-owned businesses bring to multinationals and how the supplier market has developed over the years. Maggie also discusses her peripheral projects, her work with the UN and how her organisation, even if this uncertain time, is helping to mold industries, strengthen the economy and put established women-owned businesses front and centre going forward. 

Sponsored by DOW, the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world https://www.dow.com

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Welcome to Heads Talk with me, your host Elaine Pringle Schwitter. The Podcast where we talk to C-Level Executives, Leaders of Institutions and Heads of Multinationals about the current topics of the day, in their area of expertise. 

My guests, behind some of the world’s biggest brands, corporations and institutions, will bring their wealth of experience from the boardroom to you; and provide us with guidance, prognostications, strategies and great insights; into their world of business, finance, science, technology and politics. 

So join me, let’s gain some ‘fly on the boardroom wall’ knowledge and even start a debate. 

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Hi,  I'm Elaine Pringle Schwitter.  My commercial and corporate experience span over 20 years in the city of London management consultancy industries; working at senior management and board level in a number of disciplines.  I've worked for 2 of the 'Big-5' multinational audit firms, KPMG and Deloitte & Touche and have a science-based degree to MSc level.  



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I've led complex sourcing and transformational deals for organisations within the Private Sector and Central Government. Frequently engaged on cost reduction and benefit realisation programmes with in-depth knowledge of Sourcing Strategy, Outsourcing, Contract Negotiations, Stakeholder management, Communication Strategy; Process Reengineering and Customer Relationship Management.

Sector experience: Retail, Financial Services, Media, Defence, Central Government and Utilities.

Specialties: 
• Commercial Management
• Strategic Sourcing 
• Procurement (Strategy, Implementation and Management)  
• Outsourcing (IT & BPO) 
• Bilaterals, Deal Negotiations and Contract Development
• Supplier/Vendor/Service Management  
• MRO Category Management  
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management
• Event Planning and Management
• Business/ Org Transformation

For more information about the host, Elaine Pringle Schwitter click Corporate or Media. 


Photo Credit: Georgia Schwitter

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