Roberto Canevari was named Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain in July 2021. In this role, he oversees The Estée Lauder Companies’ Global Supply Chain operations, including end-to-end procurement, manufacturing, planning, quality assurance, and logistics for the company’s diverse brand portfolio across all channels and geographies.

Canevari is a dynamic and strategic leader who has led and transformed the supply chain organizations of several global, luxury, and brand-led companies. Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, he served as Executive Vice President of Supply Chain, Europe, at Unilever PLC where he oversaw end-to-end supply chain operations for the company’s European business. In addition to being a highly experienced and innovative expert in his field, Mr. Canevari has a deep passion for driving an organization’s culture and values.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How Roberto ended up in supply chain and what excites him
• Building resilience within the organization through people, culture, and change management
• Empowering local teams and accelerating the decision-making process
• Allowing people to learn from their mistakes and leading a team
• Culture, Diversity, Hiring, and Soft Skills

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Shekar Natarajan is the Chief Supply Chain Officer for American Eagle Outfitters and has been with the company for quite a few years. He has done pretty much all the different scopes and roles within supply chain with a great impact. He's had a long-standing career within supply chain. He has worked for several very large FMCG companies earlier in his career, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and AB InBev. He also made significant things within very large retailers such as Walmart and Target.

Now he's driving some extremely interesting projects within the American Eagle Outfitters supply chain, including the acquisition that they've made to Quiet Logistics and AirTerra. They are creating a sharing platform where logistics and supply chains can be looked across different retailers and different brands. 

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Why Shekar's career was a series of accidents
• How did Shekar convince AEO’s CEO of significant acquisitions within the supply chain and logistics sector
• Building the Shopify of Logistics and how will it work
• Why should brands and retailers collaborate on supply chain
• Dogged persistence and the keys to success

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Benoit Dauchin has 20+ years of experience in leading operations globally, within consumer products and retail. Benoit is an Omnichannel pioneer, brand development passionate, and profitable growth committed. 

He has forged a track record in orchestrating fast pace & high impact business transformations. Servicing companies and PE funds, both in growth enabling and turnaround contexts.  

Benoit is based in Switzerland and operates globally.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• What it takes to be a unique leader
• How to motivate teams and keeping the organization in times of disruption
• Major learnings and challenges through COVID
• Secret sauce of transformation
• Benoit’s professional idol or inspiration

Christophe Mugnier-Pollet is the VP Global Supply Chain Management at Vestas based in Denmark.

Christophe has a professional longtime experience within the supply chain. Previously, he also worked for ABB and Schneider Electric. 

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Cristophe’s journey to getting into supply chain
• Differences in IBP in an FMCG environment vs a Vestas environment
• Best practices, key lessons and learnings from Cristophe’s past experiences
• Collaboration and building partnerships with suppliers
• Changes on how Vestas works with investors in times of disruption
• Highest demand skills in the future

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Massimo Andolina is the SVP Operations at Philip Morris International (PMI) since 2018. He joined the company in 2008 as Director Operations Planning and served in various VP roles thereafter, including VP PMI Business Transformation. Prior to joining PMI, Massimo held a variety of international positions in strategic marketing and general management for Tetra Pak and in operations for R.J. Reynolds. 

PMI is a leading international tobacco company working to deliver a smoke-free future and evolving its portfolio for the long-term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. Since 2008, PMI has invested more than USD 9 billion to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke, with the goal of completely ending the sale of cigarettes.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Inflection points in Massimo’s career
• PMI’s transformation from a tobacco to an electronics company
• From a manufacturing-centric to a customer-centric supply chain
• What worked and what didn't in the transformation process 
• Why the ability to learn and unlearn is key to PMI’s transformation
• Leap frogging supply chain and change management

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Radu Palamariu recently spoke with the master students at Zaragoza Logistics Center on the topic of changing careers of functions, hard and soft skills to have as a supply chain professional, and establishing connections and having the right mentor in the company.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Insights on transitioning from one country or industry to another
• Network, Network, Network
• Rule of 3 follow ups
• Skills supply chain professionals should have
• Recruitment and hiring process in Europe versus Asia 
• How to get great mentors

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Steven Merkt is the President, Transportation Solutions of TE Connectivity.

As leader of the Transportation Solutions segment – one of the world’s largest suppliers of connectivity and sensor solutions to the automotive and commercial vehicle marketplaces – Steven is responsible for all aspects of sales, development, and operations for the segment worldwide.

Steven joined TE in 1989 and has held leadership positions in general management, operations, engineering, marketing, supply chain, and new product launches. He was appointed to his current position in August 2012, after serving as President of TE’s Automotive business.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Steven’s journey with TE Connectivity - from being an engineer to executive management roles
• The 4 phases of the Electric Vehicle market 
• Preparing EV Supply Chains for the Boom
• Global OEMs building their EV Infrastructures
• How important is proximity to clients to TE Connectivity
• Being bold and putting customers first

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Magne Setnes is currently the Chief Supply Chain Officer at HEINEKEN. Magne joined HEINEKEN in 2000 and has held a number of senior international leadership roles across Supply Chain, Commerce and General Management in The Netherlands, United States, and Austria. 

Between 2002 and 2011 he held various roles in Supply Chain and Commerce, including HEINEKEN Export, Planning Manager HEINEKEN Netherlands Supply, Director Supply Chain HEINEKEN USA, Director Control HEINEKEN Global Supply Chain, and Supply Chain Director Brau Union Austria. He was appointed Sr. Director HEINEKEN Global Commerce Innovations in 2014, and Managing Director of Brau Union Austria in 2018.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Magne's career - from AI to SCM
• Open platform IoT and how HEINEKEN uses it in their Supply Chain
• 3D printing for spare parts
• Navigating commodity price hikes
• How to create a learning organization
• Why it is key to keep SCM simple for the executive management

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Tariq Farooq is the Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain at Sanofi, leading the operations globally for a diverse 35 billion USD pharma and biotech business. 

Previously, he spent 19 years at P&G in various roles and business units and worked for seven years at Danone as VP Global Manufacturing and EMEA Operations. 

Tariq has experience across all facets of Operations and Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement and Engineering. And has done significant transformation projects at regional and global scale.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Why Tariq switched industries from FMCG to healthcare (and also main differences between them)
• How online healthcare and changing the rules of the game
• Omnichannel developments at Sanofi and what needed to change
• How Tariq's team centralized their planning: the good as well as the bad
• Future SCM skills needed

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Mike Corbo became Chief Supply Chain Officer in 2011, the culmination of a lifelong Colgate career building our best-in-class capabilities across the globe. 

Previously he served from 2005 to 2011 as Vice President, Global Oral Care Supply Chain. Mike joined Colgate after graduating from Lafayette College in 1982 and worked in myriad roles across the U.S. In 1995, Mike moved to the Philippines as Director of Manufacturing Operations before becoming General Manager, Portfolio Simplification, Asia Pacific, in Malaysia. 

Mike has transformed our Supply Chain into an externally recognized global leader in productivity, resilience and sustainability.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Mike’s 40 years career with Colgate (and 18 different roles)
• What are some focus areas in the supply chain (and the "factory in a box" concept his team has come up with)
• How to collaborate more for Sustainable SCM
• True Zero to Waste initiative by Colgate-Palmolive
• People and building teams
• Secret sauce of long term career success

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